Sexual Health

Reading Time: < 1 minute It was a day Heather Hobbs recalls vividly: the staff at AIDS Vancouver Island had pulled another overdose victim from the washroom,…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Tested positive for a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and not sure what to do? Once you’ve recovered from the initial shock and…

Reading Time: < 1 minute ZIMBABWE currently has one of the poorest voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) coverage rates in sub-Saharan Africa, with 14.3 per cent of…

Reading Time: < 1 minute When Karolyn Schrage first heard about the “dominoes gang” in the health clinic she runs in Joplin, Mo., she assumed it had…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Akwa Ibom government has attributed the high rate of HIV/AIDS in the state to the influx of visitors. The Nigerian HIV/AIDS…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The research published in The Lancet said factors such as homelessness and cocaine injecting had helped create a “perfect storm,” with over 10…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week a study by blood-borne virus researchers from Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) and Health Protection Scotland (HPS), suggested a rise in cocaine injecting and homelessness were…

Reading Time: < 1 minute In 2017, the Canadian-based International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) and Venezuelan NGO Acción Ciudadana Contra el SIDA (ACCSI) released the…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Condoms are adjudged to be the most efficient technology in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS virus and other sexually transmitted and transmittable…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Federal Government has developed an operational guideline for effective implementation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) self-testing in Nigeria. The guideline outlines…