Sexually Transmitted Diseases News

Around 250 Indian sex workers living with HIV and others sexually transmitted diseases, Friday held a protest in the southern Indian city of Mysore opposing any move to ink Free Trade Agreement with the European Union , reported local daily Indian Express Saturday.

In the fall of 2010, the Obama administration acknowledged a shocking truth: From 1946 through 1948, officials working in Guatemala for the U.S. Public Health Service conducted tests on some 5,100 unwitting individuals and deliberately infected at least 1,300 with sexually transmitted diseases.

Over the last three years, gonorrhea has become increasingly harder to treat with antibiotics , making it now a reality that perhaps we may be facing a gonorrhea strain for which no current medications would be effective, researchers from the CDC , and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine reported in NEJM .

Travis Leyva has sat through hundreds of hours of training in his more than seven years with the New Mexico Department of Health.

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases have more than doubled for older adults been 50 and 90 years old in the last ten years, and experts are offering several reasons why, The International Business Times reports.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- An international advocate for adolescent reproductive and sexual health will be the keynote speaker at a gala for a state reproductive rights group Tuesday night.

In a last-minute blow to Jersey City's long-delayed efforts to privatize its clinic treating sexually transmitted diseases, the prospective new managers of the facility have backed out of the deal.

Abstinence-only sex education is a form of sex education that teaches abstinence from sex.

Baby boomers in the U.S., Canada and Britain are seeing an increase in rates of sexually transmitted disease.

Vicky Utt , health coordinator; Dr. Gordon Green, director of the West Piedmont Health District; and Beth Holyfield, teen health center nurse, stand in the waiting area of the center at Martinsville High School.

Sexually transmitted diseases among older adults have more than doubled in the past 10 years according to a new report as the age group is having more sex than ever.

Most of its services -- 71 percent -- are for birth control and testing and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.

Lee, pastor of Living Waters Fellowship, spearheaded a drive to encourage the Virgin Valley Community Education Advisory Board to approve the DVD 'Sex Still Has a Price Tag' as an educational resource in high school and middle school health classes, also encouraged city council to pass a resolution last year declaring Mesquite's first Abstinence ... (more)

The Ocean County Health Department is starting a new twice-monthly free clinic for those seeking treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, giving people in the underserved southern part of the county access to the same health resources those in northern Ocean already have.

Newswise - Newly divorced middle aged women are more vulnerable to contract HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, according to Christopher Coleman, PhD, MPH, RN , associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, because they tend to let their guard down with new sexual partners and avoid using protection since they ... (more)

Rates of sexually transmitted diseases have doubled for people in their 50s, 60s and 70s in the past decade, a new study found.

Researchers say doctors should discuss safe sex with their older patients as cases of sexually transmitted diseases have risen among seniors.

The Madison County Health Department continues to promote its sexual health awareness programs toward residents ofMadisonCounty.

Not only will this protect the actors themselves from the potential transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, but it will also serve to help teach the next generation about the importance of safe sex.