Refinery 29, June 16, 2016 3:40 PM Kenyan-born and Tanzania-based sexual health educator Maureen Oduor knows that soda doesn’t prevent pregnancy, but not all of the young women she counsels do. “In Kenya, adolescents believe that drinking a glass of Coca-Cola soda before and after sex can prevent a girl from getting pregnant,” she tells me. In Tanzania, meanwhile, “people...
nam/aidsmap, 24 February 2016 Only a small proportion of HIV-positive people in a large US treatment study regarded themselves as non-infectious after up to three years on antiretroviral therapy (ART), and a third of participants regarded their chance of infecting a partner as still “high”, even though only 10% of participants actually had a detectable viral load. The study showed that there was...
Multicultural Health and Support Service A popular resource for those who work with CALD communities is the manual CALD communities, sexually transmissible infections and viral hepatitis . The latest edition is the third one, released in 20111, by the Multicultural Health and Support Service (Victoria). This edition covers: how culture interacts with health and sexuality the impacts of migration...