ArchiveJanuary 2016

My Body, My Rights – Female Genital Mutilation

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Sarian Karim Kamara at Fuuse Forum, Published on 24 Jan 2016 For many years, the problem of FGM has been treated as almost too delicate to address: while laws may be changed, prosecutions rarely follow. More importantly, the necessary safeguarding and prevention measures in schools and in systems of healthcare are underdeveloped. This complacency has been partly justified by a wish to avoid...

Sexually transmitted virus strongly linked to risk of breast cancer – study

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The Guardian, Friday 29 January 2016 10.03 AEDT Women with abnormal cells on their cervix owing to certain types of human papillomavirus infection are at higher risk of developing breast cancer later in life, the findings from a new study suggest. An expert in medical genetics with the University of Newcastle, Prof Rodney Scott, said it appeared HPV accounted for a “very small” proportion of...

To tackle hepatitis C, we need to close the justice gap

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Croakey, Dec 22, 2015 Health Minister Sussan Ley’s announcement of PBS listing for new treatments for hepatitis C has been welcomed by Hepatitis NSW as “brilliant news”. Given the high rates of hepatitis C among people in prisons, it is significant that the Government has agreed to fund these medicines for prisoners. However, tackling hepatitis C will also require public health interventions such...

New Treatments for Hepatitis C: the facts

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Hepatitis NSW, 2016 This is a really exciting time if you live in Australia and have hep C. The Federal government has announced that new direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment drugs will be free and available to you from 1 March 2016. The new treatments are: Harvoni® (sofosbuvir/ledipasvir) two drugs combined in each pill Sovaldi® and Daklinza® (sofosbuvir and daclatasvir) separate pills, taken...

Talking to young people about sexual ethics

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The Conversation, January 22, 2016 6.19am AEDT “Pick-up artists” from the American company Real Social Dynamics (RSD) have been back in Australia to run a series of seminars for men on how to seduce women. At the very least, the strategies RSD promote constitute highly unethical sexual practices. At worst, they teach men strategies of sexual assault. Compounding this problem is that we don’t...

Community-level violence linked to teens’ risky sexual behavior

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ScienceDaily, January 26, 2016
Teens’ experiences with violence — either through fear of violence, observing violent events, or being victims of violence themselves — are associated with how likely they are to have sex and use condoms, new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests.
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