News tagged with 'Sexually Transmitted Disease'

There are 19 million newly diagnosed cases of sexually transmitted diseases(STD)a year, almost half among 15 to 24 year old females, finds this federal report from the CDC. African-American females have 20 times the gonorrhea rates than Caucasians showing the prevention message is not being heard.

Circumcision reduced cases of herpes and human papillomavirus in Ugandan men, say researchers from Johns Hopkins. Circumcision is already known to reduce HIV infections. Researchers are calling for higher circumcision rates. 

They pledge to wait until marriage to have sex, but more often than not, teens who made that pledge were as likely to have intercourse as other U.S. adolescents, according to a new study.  

An FDA advisory panel unanimously voted to approve a new, cheaper version of the female condom. The product has been unpopular in the past, largely because it is priced much higher than the traditional male condom. But the second generation FC2 product is expected to be 30 percent less making them more affordable.

Women who have unsafe sex could be at a greater risk of contracting HIV than originally thought, following tests that showed the virus could penetrate through healthy vaginal tissue.

Despite government recommendations in 2006, only 5 percent of patients with signs of serious illness are being tested routinely in hospital emergency rooms for the virus that causes AIDS, finds a new study. HIV is a life-threatening disease that is severely under-diagnosed and undertreated in the U.S.

There may have been unknown factors at work; or it may be a fluke. But the case of a 42-year-old AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia gives new hope that gene-therapy strategies may one day hold a cure for AIDS.

In the United States there are 19 million new STD cases diagnosed each year. inSPOT is an Internet service that allows people to notify their sex partners that they may have been infected with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 250,000 Americans are HIV positive, but don’t know it. And most are not in high-risk groups.

HIV is not in the news lately, and that may partially account for the lack of safety precautions among young men having sex with other young men. Kids as young as 13, are among the group getting the bulk of new AIDS/HIV cases called a "second epidemic"  by the CDC. 

It’s an important question and one many parents are asking --just who should be teaching our teenage girls about sexually transmitted infections following the release of a CDC survey that shows more than three million teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease.