Sunday, September 21st, 2008
A special issue of Sexuality Research and Social Policy, the official journal of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC), examined a broad range of problem associated with abstinence only programmes.
Having reviewed 56 studies assessing the impact of abstinence programs and that of comprehensive programmes on adolescents’ sexual behaviour (pdf) Douglas ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Surveys are not only interesting for the responses provided by their respondents but also for the unanswered questions raised by unasked questions. The 2007 UK Gay Men's Sex Survey is no exception and the latest report published in advance of the December release contains a few pearls of wisdom. The ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Click to Enlarge"][/caption]Some interesting results are coming out of the 2006 Gay Men's Sex survey completed by more than 12,000 men in the UK.
Roger Pebody at Aidsmap provides an outline of the results presented in this 2008 report but amongst this mine of information there is ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Kevin de Cock briefly admitted that the threat of an heterosexual AIDS pandemic outside of Africa had disappeared, but the pandemic is well and alive in Africa where it is affecting more and more heterosexual couples as observed in a study by Dr Kristin Dunkle and colleagues from the Emory ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Three snippets of information selected from today's news.
Snippet I
Clinical trials are often controversial when they take place in developing countries where there is a risk that participants do not always understand what they are taking part in or where there is a danger that once the trial is over, they ...
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