November 2015 – Page 3 – SASHA: South Australian Sexual Health Awareness

Needle Exchange May Have Prevented More Than 100 New HIV Infections in Washington DC, Saving $44 Million

In Hepatitis, HIV, People Who Inject Drugs / AOD

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hivandhepatitis.com, 08 September 2015 A federal policy change allowing funding of syringe exchange programs in Washington, DC, averted 120 new HIV infections relative to the number that likely would have occurred had the funding ban remained in place, saving approximately $44 million, according to a mathematical modeling study published in the September 4 edition of AIDS and Behavior. Read more...

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Queensland’s worst outbreak of syphilis in 30 years rampant in state’s north

By J Pope

In Aboriginal Health, Reproductive health, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

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Brisbane Times, November 12, 2015 Queensland’s worst outbreak of syphilis in 30 years has spread across northern Queensland with 500 new cases since 2010. Only four years ago the Medical Journal of Australia predicted syphilis – which causes lesions in the brain and blindness – would be eradicated in remote Queensland with screening and basic penicillin shots. The escalating rate of...

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Mother, midwife and sheikh guilty in Australia’s first genital mutilation trial

By J Pope

In Crime and law, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Multicultural communities, Sexual, gendered & partner violence

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Sydney Morning Herald, November 12, 2015 – 1:53PM A retired nurse and the mother of two young girls have each been found guilty of carrying out female genital mutilation in Australia’s first prosecution of an FGM case. A sheikh, Shabbir Mohammedbhai Vaziri, was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact. All three were members of the Dawoodi Bohra Shia Muslim community Read more from...

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More sex please: ending barriers in the bedroom [for people with physical disabilities]

By J Pope

In Disability, Sexual Activity

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Sydney Morning Herald, November 11, 2015 Now 23, Ariane was born with cerebral palsy spastic quadriplegia, which means she has reduced muscle tone in parts of her body and uses a wheelchair. It also means, like many people with physical disabilities, she has relied on assistance in the past to lead a normal adult sexual life; including help getting undressed before hopping into bed with her...

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Imprisoned without offence: the pain-filled, asexual world of genitally-mutilated women

By J Pope

In Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Gynaecology & andrology, Pregnancy choices, Reproductive health, Sexual dysfunction

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The Cable (Nigeria), November 09, 2015 Sunday Salawa may never have sat in a classroom or profited from any formal form of learning. She may not even know the English expression for an act she describes in Yoruba as didabe f’omobinrin, but she does know it is dangerous. She didn’t have to be told by staff or consultants of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) – one of the UN agencies...

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Sex workers concerned by impact of possible new legislation in NSW

By J Pope

In Crime and law, Sex Work

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news.com.au, November 8, 2015 3:35pm FLEUR* is worried. Worried she will be blackmailed into sex, worried she will be forced underground, most of all, worried the police will turn from her protector to her persecutor. Her worries have risen due to a recent NSW inquiry into the regulation of brothels which is due to hand down its recommendations next week. Currently the state is one of the few...

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