Sexual Health News Headlines

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines on Friday outlining how doctors should treat the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea. The guidelines are an update to a similar document that the CDC issued in 2010, in light of the fact that the agency has discovered that the disease is becoming …

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Health officials are urging doctors to stop using a key antibiotic to treat routine cases of gonorrhea due to signs of bacterial resistance, leaving one treatment left for the sexually transmitted disease. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday it no longer recommends the …

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday signed a new deal supporting efforts to fight AIDS in South Africa, which has the world's biggest population of people with HIV.

WORCESTER, South Africa (Reuters) - On a bitterly cold Saturday afternoon in Worcester, a forlorn rural community near South Africa's southern tip, the queue at the liquor store is the longest in town. It's a scene constantly repeated across South Africa and a number of other nations on the continent: the prelude to a weekend …

PRETORIA (Reuters) - The United States and South Africa are to sign an agreement on funding for an anti-AIDS campaign that is symbolic of Pretoria's shift from being a pariah to a global player in fighting the disease. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a visit to South Africa that Pretoria will begin taking …

A ninth-grader from the Philadelphia area is considering an admissions offer by a private boarding school after it announced a new policy to treat HIV-positive applicants the same as others.

LONDON (Reuters) - London Olympic organizers are investigating how a bucket of Australian-tagged condoms found its way into the athletes' village without official consent. Australian BMX cyclist Caroline Buchanan tweeted a photograph from the athletes' village of a container of condoms with a placard reading "Kangaroos …

Malawi on Monday launched a week-long campaign to test 250,000 people for HIV in what health authorities called a crucial intervention in a country ravaged by AIDS.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 20 years ago singer-songwriter Elton John was, by his own admission, living a disgusting life of self-pity and drug abuse. Then he met Ryan White. White was an American teenager who in 1984 contracted the virus that causes AIDS through a blood transfusion due to his hemophilia. He was expelled …

There’s an update to the case of the Colorado oral surgeon accused of reusing needles and syringes among his patients, and it’s not good: Three people have tested positive for hepatitis B, C, or HIV.

(Reuters) - A growing number of U.S. women appear to be opting for intrauterine devices (IUDs) as their birth control method, with the number more than doubling in just two years in one study. Researchers, whose findings were published in the journal Fertility & Sterility, said this is good news, since IUDs and contraceptive …

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reported on Wednesday, Aug. 1, that three past patients of Dr. Stephen Stein have tested positive for either HIV, hepatitis B and/or hepatitis C. Here are the details.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A growing number of U.S. women may be opting for intrauterine devices (IUDs) as their birth control method, a national survey finds. That's good news, researchers say, since IUDs and contraceptive implants are the most effective forms of reversible birth control. In the U.S., though, they are …

(Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc signed deals with three Indian companies to drive sales and reduce manufacturing costs of low-cost generic versions of its HIV drug emtricitabine in developing countries. Under deals with Ranbaxy Laboratories, Strides Arcolab and Mylan Inc's India unit, Gilead will provide technology and …

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Helper T-cells normally support the immune system, but a new study involving mice shows HIV-infected T-cells help transport the virus throughout the body and infect other T-cells.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New rules requiring free access to prescription birth control for women with health insurance go into effect on Wednesday, but controversy lingers at some Catholic institutions struggling to balance the requirement with their opposition to contraception. At Georgetown University, the nation's oldest …

In the latest stitch in the rich tapestry of the teen-pregnancy reality genre, TLC's new show, "My Teen Is Pregnant and So Am I," chronicles the often bumpy journey of a pair of teen moms whose own mothers are expecting at the same time.

In the latest stitch in the rich tapestry of the teen-pregnancy reality genre, TLC's new show, "My Teen Is Pregnant and So Am I," chronicles the often bumpy journey of a pair of teen moms whose own mothers are expecting at the same time.

Free Birth Control, Reproductive Services for Women Starting August 1

MONDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Testing for HPV, the human papillomavirus linked to cervical cancer, can predict which women will stay cancer-free for a decade or more, a new study shows.

Austria's Jewish community (IKG) said Monday it was working jointly with its German and Swiss counterparts to keep religious circumcision legal, after repeated calls for an end to the practice.

Namibia's government sterilized three women infected with HIV without getting proper consent, forcing them to sign forms they didn't understand as they suffered through the pains of labor, a judge ruled Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The ancient Greeks believed athletes should avoid sex before sport, but modern Olympians and scientists are torn over the merits of in-competition coitus and whether abstinence enhances performance. For years coaches and athletes have practiced abstinence the night or even weeks before a big event, although …