Star Observer, May 30, 2014
Key community and government HIV and AIDS organisations have criticised mainstream media reporting of a Brisbane school student finding and injuring himself with a needlestick as generating “fear”.
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Caution urged in Queensland HIV notification “spike” response
Recent reports of a “dramatic spike” in HIV notifications in Queensland have prompted experts to urge caution about misinterpreting results and jumping to conclusions.
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Life Matters Women’s Health Series – Part 3 – Contraception
ABC Radio National, Thursday 5 June 2014 9:24AM Guests Alison Bean-Hodges Manager, Gynaecology Assessment Clinic & Sexual Health Service, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, The Women’s Professor Jayne Lucke Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society at La Trobe University. Honorary Professor at The University of Queensland and a member of the Steering Committee of...
Domestic abuse services are failing LGBT victims
The Conversation, 5 June 2014, 1.42am AEST
New reseqarch demonstrates how a narrow focus on the needs of heterosexual, cisgender women can leave LGBT people feeling that these services aren’t appropriate for them.
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Born this way? An evolutionary view of ‘gay genes’
The Conversation, 2 June 2014, 2.17pm AEST
The claim that homosexual men share a “gay gene” created a furore in the 1990s. But new research two decades on supports this claim – and adds another candidate gene.
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Does porn affect the brain?
ABC Science, Friday, 30 May 2014
Researchers found less grey matter in the brains of men who watched large amounts of sexually explicit material.
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