Three cheers for the news that nearly one in three secondary schools are now running sexual health clinics for pupils - some as young as 11 - offering condoms, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill.
This figure is revealed in a new report from the Sex Education Forum. And I think it makes encouraging reading.
I’m wholly [...]
Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if clinics are based in schools, it has emerged.
The UK’s teenage pregnancy rates are among the worst in Europe - rising by 143% from 1991 to 2001 - and the Department of Health has called for children to have better access to school-based clinics.
According to [...]
Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if they can access them at schools, according to research by the University of the West of England. A pilot scheme offering drop-in sexual health clinics in Bristol schools has successfully accessed ‘hard to reach’ groups including boys and vulnerable young people who would not [...]
Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if they can access them at schools, according to research by the University of the West of England. A pilot scheme offering drop-in sexual health clinics in Bristol schools has successfully accessed ‘hard to reach’ groups including boys and vulnerable young people who would not [...]
The Ministry of Health (MoH) is studying the implementation of mental health programmes in primary health clinics across the country, an official has told Khaleej Times.
According to Dr Muna Al Kuwari, Director of Central Primary Health in the MoH, primary health services in the country will be expanded to include mental health services to both [...]
Folks, a week or so ago my wife and I watched a segment of the “60 Minutes” show on CBS. It was about an organization that gave free medical help to anyone who showed up at their two-day, free health clinic.
This organization, Remote Area Medical (RAM), was established to bring medical services to very remote [...]
The American Diabetes Association estimates that 11.4 percent of all African-Americans ages 20 and older have diabetes, and one third of them do not know it. In addition, blacks are twice as likely to suffer from diabetes-related blindness, a disease that often displays no symptoms in the [...]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will open its first in-store medical clinics under its own brand name after leasing space in dozens of stores to outside companies that operate the quick-service health stops.
The world’s largest retailer said Thursday it will open “The Clinic at Wal-Mart” as a joint venture with local hospital systems in Atlanta, Dallas and [...]
The latest is a strain of bacteria known as USA300. The codename makes it sound like a patriotic sporting event, but to judge by recent media coverage USA300 is a harbinger of apocalypse. ‘Flesh-eating bug strikes San Francisco’s gay community,’ screamed a recent headline in the Independent. ‘SF gay community an epicenter for new strain [...]
Placing pressure on resources to influence the post-election process, which has degenerated into violence amid claims of government-engineered fraud, would not work and could be counter-productive, he said.”What it does do is give the impression that Africans democratise in response to development assistance and all you have to do is close the taps and they [...]
