Researchers at the University of Minnesota have published a study showing that the degree of internalised homonegativity (negative attitude towards homosexuality) among homosexual men is what predicts poor mental and sexual health – not the act of being homosexual.
As part of attending an HIV prevention seminar, 422 Midwestern gay and bisexual men completed surveys assessing [...]
Grade point averages may be taboo on Brown’s campus, but this year the University has a 3.31 according to a decidedly non-academic source - the makers of Trojan condoms.
Brown ranks 17th out of 139 U.S. colleges and universities in the third annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, which surveys resources and services available to students. [...]
An understanding of sexuality is a vital pre-requisite for any professional who interacts with people on a day-to-day basis, according to Dr Patricia Weerakoon.
The coordinator of the University of Sydney’s sexual health Master’s program, Dr Weerakoon says there is currently an acute shortage of people qualified to offer much-needed sexual health guidance and counselling within [...]
THE RECENT alarming events at Gloucester High School should be a wake-up call about the precarious sexual health of our nation’s youth. Despite our country’s wealth and educational resources, the United States leads all industrialized Western nations in rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
This epidemic is fueled by inaccurate sexual information, lack of [...]
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 [...]
Sex education is predominately being taught in our schools across the nation, with a medley of variations on how to teach the subject. More and more schools are choosing to teach their students about sexual health, risks, and general knowledge and foregoing the idea that abstinence is the only answer. The educational facilities who address [...]
Promoting multidisciplinary and inter-sector participation in the discussion on sexuality is the purpose of the 4th Sexual Health -HIV Scientific Conference that will be held in Ciego de ávila in June 26-27, being education and sexual orientation among the main topics.
The theoretical debate and the presentation of work experiences in the fields of sexual health [...]
A Rwandan radio soap opera that takes on controversial issues about sexual health has won a prestigious One World Media Award at a ceremony in the UK.
Urunana follows life in the fictional village of Nyarurembo and each week has an estimate audience of 10 million.
Narcisse Kalisa, Urunana’s director, says the show is not afraid of [...]
Alberta parents are being warned to do their homework when it comes to deciding whether they should have their daughters vaccinated against the virus that causes some cervical cancers.
More than 20,000 Alberta girls in Grade 5 will qualify for the province’s free human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine come September, with Grade 9 girls becoming eligible [...]
