National STD Awareness Month is an annual observance during the month of April and sponsored by American Social Health Association (ASHA) to alert everyone to the growing crisis of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in America. Georgia ranks first in Primary and Secondary Syphilis, sixth in Gonorrhea and 14th in Chlamydia in comparison with the rest […]

For many men, the erectile-dysfunction drugs Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra are the answer to their prayers. But, according to Sexuality in Midlife and Beyond, a new report from Harvard Medical School, these pills offer no help in untangling the emotional and relationship pressures that frequently accompany erectile dysfunction (ED).
For one thing, the medications work only […]

Israeli researchers at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa are conducting a study to determine whether or not toxins found in spider venom can be used to treat erectile dysfunction.
Senior urologist Dr. Ilan Gruenwald, of the Rambam neurourology unit and sexual health clinic, explains that the researchers are working with toxins from three types of […]

According to a study survey on sex education, at least 68 per cent of the respondents said they were given sex education at school when it was “too late,” while another 59 per cent said the information given was insufficient,
The study formed part of a thesis by Louise Cini that examined young people’s views on […]

A new category of drugs has shown promising results for HIV/AIDS patients who failed to respond to other treatments, a new study shows.
Especially when combined with other medications, raltegravir - the first in a new class of anti-retroviral drugs called integrase inhibitors - dramatically reduced the presence of the HIV virus and boosted immunity in […]

The Kilimanjaro HIV/Aids Control Project-Mkuki, has embarked on an ambitious programme that will see elderly widows burdened by the upkeep of grandchildren whose parents died of HIV/AIDS in Moshi Rural District, getting low cost houses free of charge.
According to Mkuki Project Executive Director, Linah Mlay, her organization which has identified 59 elderly widows caring […]

A Tibetan student doing his Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) at St. Joseph college of Arts and Science, Bangalore takes initiative to make sure his young fellow Tibetan friends studying in the city are completely aware of AIDS.
Although, AIDS is not an appalling issue among Tibetans in exile, more concerns on this dreadful disease […]

AIDS is spreading, experts say, because the word about it is not.
“In some churches, especially among the older population, they don’t even want you to talk about it,” says Debra Lloyd, a Mississippi State University doctoral student and co-author of a study about African-American women’s attitudes toward HIV/AIDS in the Delta.
“They don’t believe that’s the […]

Even in the most sexually liberated and self-satisfied of nations, many people still yearn to burn more, to feel ready for bedding no matter what the clock says and to desire their partner of 23 years as much as they did when their love was brand new.
The market is saturated with books on how […]

It is becoming increasingly clear that if we want the proposal for sex education in schools to be accepted, we should first impart sex education to politicians. We have to remove wrong and fearful notions they seem to have about sex and its impact on school kids.
Politicians are wonderful folks who have the gift of […]