Sexually Transmitted Diseases News

More local people are living in poverty, more children are homeless and child abuse and domestic violence are on the rise, a new community report states.

The question "Have you been tested?" is not something people like to ask ... or be asked.

Family planning services available through state health programs will be offered to men, under a provision in the two-year budget signed by Gov.

PRIZES are being used to entice city youngsters to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases a ' at the public's expense, says the TaxPayers' Alliance.

In schools, children are taught about the different sexually transmitted diseases, viruses and infections.

Main Category: Public Health Also Included In: Conferences ; Sexual Health / STDs Article Date: 07 Jul 2009 - 3:00 PDT San Francisco, the host city for the American Sociological Association's 104th annual meeting, will be the subject of several regional spotlight sessions in which leading sociologists present research and explore the politics, ...

Women in Toronto's South Asian community are not being tested for sexually transmitted diseases during checkups as consistently as other women, a health activist says.

Sales of condoms designed to appeal to young aboriginal people have been so successful they're now available in regional towns throughout Australia.

Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health ; Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 - 3:00 PDT The Chicago Public Schools system this year will launch a pilot program to provide students in grades 11 and 12 with voluntary education, testing and treatment for chlamydia and gonorrhea, the ...

The Chicago Department of Public Health announced yesterday that it expects to lay off 80 employees, cut spending by 25 percent, and reduce lead testing in response to the state budget crisis.

On the internet, you can now find lists of people in your community and across the world that have sexually transmitted diseases, but it turns out anyone can post a person's name, regardless of whether they have an STD or not.

Should schools scrap abstinence-only sex education? Yes. It's a discredited puritanical approach that does not work.

The resurgent syphilis epidemic in the UK shows no signs of abatement, a new report from the Health Protection Agency shows.

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 5:36 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 5:36 p.m. The Honorables in Raleigh have finally restored common sense to sex education in North Carolina.

By Yetunde Arebi Hi, Sometime ago, we discussed the issue of safe sex practices.

Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 27 Jun 2009 - 0:00 PDT As a woman gets older, physical problems are less likely to influence whether she is sexually active than her partner's health or interest in sex, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San ...

A medical lab in Omaha caters to the uninsured, offering confidential lab work for cash.

Sex education in North Carolina public schools, which for more than a decade has focused on abstinence, will soon include information about contraceptives and preventing sexually transmitted diseases.

The state will allow parents to decide whether their children should learn more about sexually transmitted diseases and contraception than is typically taught in public schools under a bill that passed the House in a 60-55 vote Thursday.

Editor's Choice Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: Dermatology ; Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Article Date: 24 Jun 2009 - 10:00 PDT Genital warts are also called venereal warts or condylomata acuminate .