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UN: Fight climate change with free condoms (AP)

UN: Fight climate change with free condoms

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (12) | comments 38

(AP) -- The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.


South African policy on adolescents' rights to access condoms is causing confusion

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In 2007, South Africa's new Children's Act came into effect, granting children 12 years and older a host of rights relating to reproductive health, including the right to access condoms. But current policies allow individual ...


Contraceptive methods shape women's sexual pleasure and satisfaction

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New data from The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University demonstrate that many women think condoms undermine sexual pleasure, but those who use both hormonal contraception and condoms report higher overall sexual satisfaction.





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NYC-themed condoms a hit

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 06, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Health officials say New York City-themed condoms have been a big hit.


Yes, a female condom

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Sometime during the next six months, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will consider approving the FC2, a second-generation female condom. That appears likely, since an FDA advisory panel unanimously recommended the product ...


Can condoms prevent sexually transmitted infections other than HIV?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 25, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Consistent condom use can reduce the spread of HIV, but are they the answer to rising rates of other sexually transmitted infections? Researchers debate the issue in this week’s BMJ.


AIDS research reveals a lack of family-planning programs in Uganda

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Alberta graduate student Jennifer Heys wants to make her message clear: there needs to be more education in Ugandan communities about contraception.


Study: unprotected sex common among teens

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created Aug 24, 2006 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A study by Brown University in Providence, R.I., has suggested that U.S. teenagers use condoms more often with casual partners than with a main partner.


Report says teens don't often use condoms

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created Aug 03, 2006 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A study has found most sexually active U.S. teenagers do not use condoms, placing themselves at a higher risk of developing sexually transmitted diseases.


New study shows linkage between teen girls' weight and sexual behavior

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A University of Pittsburgh study sheds new light on the relationship between race, body weight and sexual behavior among adolescent girls. The results suggest that a girl's ethnicity and her actual weight or perception of ...


Study: Condoms offer HPV protection

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created Jun 28, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A U.S. study shows the use of a condom while having sex can reduce a woman's risk of acquiring the virus that causes cervical cancer by up to 70 percent.


Contraception: It's better to be doubly safe than sorry

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 12, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study indicates that the safe sex message is getting through to Australian women, with nearly 70 per cent of those surveyed currently using contraception and 15 per cent using not one but two contraceptive methods to ...


Teenagers know about condoms...so why don't they use them?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Study reveals how stereotypes of how men and women should behave are frustrating global efforts to encourage safer sex.



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