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Search results for "sexually transmitted disease" ...
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The New Lies About Women's Health
Radical Christian groups have been found to be endangering the lives of its women, by not accurately explaining sex-education, to promote abstinence until marriage. Lies are told to them in public school programs, they aren't allowed access to safe contraception, and they are guided to false, "objective" government websites.
Tags: sex; condom; pregnancy; abstinence; STD; sexually transmitted disease; FDA; medic
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"The Pledge"
This story explains changes in Public Health policies of the Bush administration, particularly the approach to preventing sexually transmitted diseases among young people. For 20 years the policy had been to get kids to use condoms; a policy that worked. Since the advent of the Bush administration five years ago, the policy has shifted to "No sex before marriage" and the government has spent almost $1 billion to get the message across. Part of the strategy has been to convince young people that condoms are not safe.
Tags: Public health policy; HIV; AIDS; sex education; sexually transmitted diseases; STD's
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Prison Zip Codes
This investigation by WSMV looks at the trend of parolees, prisoners, their respective zip codes, and the continuous cycle of violence that occurs when they're released into the same environment. The trend shows that certain zip codes with hundreds of parolees also tend to have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. Through their analysis, reporters at WSMV discovered that many of these parolees have no choice but to return to these high-crime neighborhoods with cheap housing due to their criminal past. "So when parolees return to these areas, they are exposed to crime again and get caught up in a cycle of violence."
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Let's Talk About Sex: A Look Into the Sexual Education, or Lack Thereof, of West County Teens
This investigation examined teenagers attitudes about sex and focused on who or what influences their choices, their opinions and their actions. The story also discussed how educators view their role and what they teach as well as parent; perceptions of their children;s sexual activities. The story concluded that teenagers have varying views and attitudes depending on their individual backgrounds.
Tags: sex; abstinence education; oral sex; Planned Parenthood; abortion; teen pregnancy; STDs; Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Death Stalks A Continent
Time reports on the troubling numbers of AIDS cases in sub-Saharan Africa. "An estimated 8.8% of adults in Africa are infected with HIV/AIDS." The main problem in this area is lack of communication and prevention about the disease. As more and more people contract the disease, they are afraid to get tested because they will be shunned in their communities. In addition, African men continue to sleep with other women and then sexually transmit the disease to their wife and children. People in this area continue their daily lifestyles, ignoring possible signs of AIDS and continuing to pass it along. And statistics such as "17 million Africans have died since the AIDS epidemic began in the 1970s, more than 3.7 million of them children" leave us wondering how to decrease these staggering numbers when no one seems to listen.
Tags: AIDS; HIV; sex; children; education; medication; prevention; death rates; orphans; immune deficiencies; includes pictures
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1 in 4 Americans will be infected with an STD in their lifetime!
Ms. takes a look at the growing epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases among young people, especially between the ages 15 and 19. The article discusses the problem many communities face with denial and treatment of STD's.
Tags: STD; sex; teenagers; Bonavoglia
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Stamping out syphilis
Science News reports federal health officials have targeted an age-old enemy: Treponema pallidum, the spiral bacterium that causes syphilis. Although U.S. health officials have declared war on syphilis before, this time the battle may be winnable.
Tags: Sexually transmitted diseases AIDS HIV Center for Disease Control and Prevention
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Problems with St. Louis Health Department
While reporting on a man who had infected many young women with AIDS, the Post-Dispatch uncovered chronic mismanagement that put the health department and the public it served at serious risk.
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Tropic Sex and Survival
The Herald looks at the life of William Darrow, the scientist who first discovered that AIDS was a sexually-transmitted disease. After gaining fame by tracking the origins of the disease in the United States, Darrow has moved to Miami to study the disease in a new community where no one knows his identity. Now Darrow is to trying to explain why the disease continues to spread if people know how they contract it and know how to prevent its transmission.
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Sex ed: How much, how soon?
This three-part Record series discusses how much sex education should be taught in schools and at what age and from what perspective the children should be taught.