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A papier mache condom would spell disaster in the bedroom, so it’s surprising to learn the unconventional contraceptive isn’t entirely useless.Standing almost two-metres tall and sporting a subtle lean, a giant blue condom was set amongst the trees of Springwood’s Manners Park on September 19, designed to nudge teens into talking about safe sex.Youth workers from Lower Mountains Youth Service

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KELLY Osbourne has revealed she gets tested for sexually transmitted diseases four times a year.The daughter of rocker Ozzy, 23, said she drunkenly had unprotected sex in the past — but even if it is unnecessary, she gets tested for her own “peace of mind”.She also revealed mum Sharon, who survived colon cancer, fears Kelly will get the disease as she is on the Pill — or if she goes near a

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The government of Botswana, along with Population Services International, has distributed almost 60 million condoms in the country during the past two years in an attempt to scale up the fight against HIV/AIDS, Mmegi reports.

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Can AIDS be stopped in Africa? The temptation, when we confront suffering on such a ghastly scale, is to assume it's beyond human control. But it's not. We know we can contain the spread of HIV, because vulnerable nations have already succeeded. Senegal has held its infection rate below 2 percent throughout the epidemic. And Uganda, once the plague's epicenter, cut its infection rate by half

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HEALTH chiefs are poised to target the Cumbrian schools with the highest teen pregnancy rates in a push to educate young people.The county’s public health boss wants to encourage a new culture where children talk openly about sex from a very young age and parents are no longer prudish or embarrassed.Prof John Ashton also wants to see dedicated teen health centres being set up across the county,

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A £3M sexual health centre opens in Manchester today aiming to provide faster, easier access to tests and treatment.The Hathersage Centre, on the corner of Hathersage Road and Upper Brook Street, will offer confidential, free care and counselling on a range of needs, including contraception, pregnancy, sexually-transmitted infections and HIV.The clinic will have a drop-in service, so most people

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A RECORD number of HIV cases have been diagnosed in Wales over the past year – the highest rate since the start of the epidemic nearly 30 years ago.The latest NHS figures show a total of 172 new patients were confirmed with the virus – a rise over the previous year which was also a record with 154 new cases.Doctors today confirmed that unprotected sex was by far the biggest cause of the spread

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In a first-ever analysis, 25 percent of all teenage girls in the U.S. and nearly half of African-American girls ages 14 to 19 were found to have a sexually transmitted disease. Those alarming rates suggest that admonitions to teenagers about safe sex are falling on deaf ears and that when it comes to infectious diseases, a lot more effort must be put into education, screening and prevention.Some

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New Delhi: Real men use condoms. That’s the message BBC's latest campaign aims to impart. But how comfortable are we talking about the ‘C’ word in this day and age?As part of its ‘Jo Bole Wohi Sikandar’ campaign, BBC has released an advertisement in five different languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telgu, Kanada and Marathi. The message is simple: real men use condoms."Aim of the campaign to get

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MAPUTO, Mozambique, 28 February 2008 – Every week, activists from Kindlimuka, an association of people living with HIV, visit primary schools in Maputo to discuss with students the ways they can protect themselves against HIV.Through lively debates and discussions, children learn the life skills they need to make informed choices. The UNICEF-assisted HIV Prevention School Programme also includes

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Some of the young people who seek help at the Youth Information and Orientation Centre for Reproductive Health (CIOJ) in N'Djamena, capital of Chad, do not understand how they became pregnant or contracted a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Workers at the centre blame the high levels of ignorance on the failure of parents to talk to their children about sex. CIOJ was set up by a local

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On February 28 sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) and the New Deal for Communities programme (NDC) are holding a launch event for a new young people’s sexual health clinic in Coventry. The event will be held at Henley Green Community Centre on February 28 from 4 -7pm. The clinic, aimed at under 25s, will test and treat young people for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and

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Patronage of condoms in parts of Accra has increased significantly as the euphoria of the 26th Africa Cup of Nations (Ghana 2008) heightens.Enquiries made by the Daily Graphic indicate that about 1.5 million free condoms have so far been distributed by the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), while sale of the product at some commercial outlets has also shot up. The shopping mart at the La Beach Shell

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Brasilia - Brazilian Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao guaranteed Wednesday that there will be enough free condoms for anyone needing them during Carnival festivities across the country. "We have distributed 20 million condoms for this Carnival. We are going to distribute 600 million male condoms throughout this year," the minister said in a press conference.Gomes Temporao was responding to

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Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) Young Leaders Project is inviting groups of young people to apply for small grants to create and deliver their own sex and relationship education projects. The grants are to educate their friends and the wider community on issues relating to sexually transmitted infections, sexual health and HIV. THT is looking for 13-19 year olds in London, Eastern England, the South

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Teenagers are being educated about the dangers of sex and alcohol in a new scheme being run in the borough's schools.Play Hard Party Safe is aimed at final year high school pupils and sixth formers.It has been launched to help address Bolton's problems with teenage pregnancy.The borough's figures are way above the national average - in England and Wales 41.3 under 18s per 1,000 fell pregnant in

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China rolled out its first major television campaign on Thursday to promote condom use to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS, now mostly being transmitted by sex in the world's most populous country.The short public service announcements will mainly be shown on screens in buses, trains and planes, on the Internet, in entertainment venues, and on some state television channels.They

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Surkhet, Dec. 3: Surkhet in mid-west Nepal has become the hotbed district for HIV and AIDS. Almost 60 per cent of the people go to India for work and they come back with the virus which are transmitted to their wives and community.Dev Prasad Gautam, section secretary at the Nepal Red Cross Society, said there could be at least 500 to 600 people in Surkhet living with HIV and AIDS.Going to India

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No, because there's too many young tarts having babies.Simmone Hasler, 18, RokebyNo. Sex ed is boring so no one pays attention to it.Kana Cantrell, 16, RokebyYes, I think so.Whitney Garth, 19, Clifton BeachIt varies. Some families do and some don't.Ted Cooper, 58, South ArmI don't think it's as much about safe sex as it is about responsibility - being responsible for their actions.Kara Johnston,

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THE United Nations Women's Fund (UNIFEM), estimates that of the 38.6 million adults living with HIV/AIDS by the end of 2002, 19.2 million (nearly 50%) were women. It adds that the rate of new infections among women is increasing faster than those among men.This indicates a rise in incidence or prevalence among women due to biological, social and economic factors. It is not surprising when some

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People were last night urged to heed the safe sex message after a study revealed a shock increase in cases of sexually transmitted infections across Ulster.Research released annually by the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Northern Ireland (CDSCNI) also shows that an outbreak of syphilis which began in early 2001 continues unabated.Consultant epidemiologist Dr Neil Irvine said the

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Better sex education in schools and condom advertising targeted at young people are key to tackling the nation’s sex disease epidemic, according to an expert.
 
A recent report by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) found that diagnoses of HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Illnesses (STIs) were increasing.
 
The results for NHS South East Coast, the Strategic Health Authority covering Kent,

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A packet of condoms should be at the top of everyone's Christmas wish list, according to one charity. Oxfam is offering the unusual gift as one of five "Positive Pressies" launched this year as part of a new campaign to tackle HIV and Aids.The campaign, launched to tie in with World Aids Day, will help to directly tackle the spread of HIV by encouraging safe sex and providing condoms.Anyone who

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Chairwoman of the National AIDS Council Nafsiah Mboi has clarified that an aggressive condom-use campaign does not endorse promiscuity.Speaking at the official launch of National Condom Week in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Saturday, Nafsiah warned against a common misconception: "National Condom Week doesn't legalize free sex ... we do not approve of this. But if we already have youths who are

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's government announced plans to put condom-dispensing machines in public schools to help teenagers reduce the spread of AIDS.The health and education ministries and the United Nations sponsored a nationwide contest for students to design the dispenser. Three potential models were selected on Friday, the government news agency Agencia Brasil said.Condom

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