NHS (UK), Thursday January 29 2015
“A third of pensioners have sex at least twice a month,” the Daily Mail reports. A new UK study reinforces the point that sex doesn’t automatically stop once a person gets their free bus pass.
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Reuters, Thu Jan 29, 2015 4:13pm EST
Up to 17 percent of young adults in the U.S. may be using “withdrawal” to prevent pregnancy, although not necessarily relying just on that method, a new study finds.
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Association Between Pornography Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors in Adult Consumers: A Systematic Review Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, doi:10.1089/cyber.2014.0343. Abstract: The purpose of this review was to determine whether an association exists between sexual risk behaviors and pornography consumption. Consumption of pornography is common, yet research examining its link with...
nam, 13 January 2015 Sharing injecting equipment is associated with a low per-event probability of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission, Australian investigators report in the online journal PLOS ONE. Because the per-event probability was so low, the investigators believe that HCV prevention campaigns should focus on reducing the frequency of sharing equipment, as well as focusing on decreasing...
nam, 05 January 2015
The American public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published new recommendations on the HIV prevention interventions and advice that should be offered to people who are HIV positive.
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The resource has been written primarily to assist trans people who experience domestic abuse. Although there are resource links which are UK-based, there is also plenty of advice and information which is universal. ‘Domestic Violence: A resource for trans people’ was produced in 2009 by The Greater London Domestic Violence project, in collaboration with the LGBT Domestic Abuse Forum...