The Conversation, December 15, 2015 6.28am AEDT Many things contribute to how we experience and express pain. Gender, age, education, socioeconomic status, the relative power of the participants in the conversation, and whether the person in pain is speaking in their mother tongue or another language all affect a person’s experience of pain. Each of these factors can have a crucial impact on how...
National LGBTI Health Alliance, July 2015 The passport is available to anyone who wishes to ensure that their genders, bodies, relationships are respected in their interactions with health and social care services. The Passport is a tool to support clear communication between people and organisations on topics related to their genders, bodies, and relationships. This information is critical in a...
ScienceDaily, January 26, 2016
Married couples in low- and middle-income countries around the world that use contraception are having more frequent sexual intercourse than those that do not, new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests.
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nam/aidsmap, Published: 26 January 2016 Two statisticians involved in the PROUD and iPrEx trials of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) warn that future trials to test new PrEP drugs and formulations may be extremely difficult to design. David Dunn of the UK Medical Research Council and David Glidden of the University of California, San Francisco say that statisticians will need to choose and analyse...
Reuters health, January 20, 2016 \Most U.S. high school students and young adults who have sex don’t get HIV tests, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On average, just 22 percent of high school students and 33 percent of young adults aged 18 to 24 who report ever having sexual intercourse also report being tested at least once for HIV, researchers...
Student Health 101, 2015 Student Sexual Health 101 is an interactive online resource for young adults. The target audience of Student Sexual Health 101 are young people just getting started learning about their sexuality. Contributors include Dr Marty Klein, Dr Aline Zoldbrod, and Dr Stephen Snyder. Students click on the question they would like answered to see advice from the experts. Access...