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Kids see too many anti-impotence ads: doctors
Reuters   Monday, 04 December 2006
Reuters - Children should be exposed to fewer television ads for anti-impotence drugs and more for birth control, and need to be shielded from an advertising onslaught in general, the leading U.S. pediatricians' group said on Monday.
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Indian bid to solve age-old seahorse aphrodisiac riddle
AFP   Friday, 01 December 2006

An employee of Dresden's Sea Life Aquarium looks at a seahorse in 2005. Indian scientists are hoping to discover once and for all if seahorses are an aphrodisiac, a myth that has made the creatures a major hunting target for centuries and an endangered species.(AFP/DDP/File/Norbert Millauer)AFP - Indian scientists are hoping to discover once and for all if seahorses are an aphrodisiac, a myth that has made the creatures a major hunting target for centuries and an endangered species.


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South Africa targets 50 percent drop in new HIV cases
AFP   Friday, 01 December 2006

South African activists from the Treatment Action Campaign carry placards as they march through the streets of Cape Town, September 2006. The South African government has unveiled plans to reduce the number of people being infected with the AIDS virus by 50 percent within the next five years.(AFP/File/Rodger Bosch)AFP - South Africa has unveiled plans to halve the number of people being infected with the AIDS virus within five years by persuading youngsters to delay the start of their sex lives.


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Indians want AIDS drugs, Indonesians worry about sex
Reuters   Friday, 01 December 2006

Krishna Shetty, 46, a folk dancer, holds a red ribbon during a World AIDS Day rally in the southern Indian city of Bangalore December 1, 2006. (Jagadeesh Nv/Reuters)Reuters - Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on Friday to demand new anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, while health workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.


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China takes HIV/AIDS prevention to the masses
Reuters   Thursday, 30 November 2006
Reuters - On the eve of World AIDS Day, construction workers at the building site of Beijing's CCTV tower put down tools and picked up condoms and brochures touting safe sex and HIV/AIDS prevention.
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Hundreds attend Okla. HIV/STD conference
AP   Thursday, 30 November 2006
AP - After living with HIV for 21 years, there are few outward signs that 46-year-old Tommy Chesbro has the virus, except for a combination of 12 pills that he takes every morning.
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Mao's home province puts sex on the Internet
Reuters   Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Reuters - A school in Mao Zedong's home province, slower than most to adopt reforms that have now swept the country, has launched its first sex education Web site to stop children feeling embarrassed by the subject.
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Free Viagra spices up small town life
Reuters   Monday, 20 November 2006

A bottle of Viagra pills is seen in an undated file photo. The mayor of a small Brazilian town has begun handing out free Viagra, spicing up the sex lives of dozens of elderly men and their partners. (Handout/Reuters)Reuters - The mayor of a small Brazilian town has begun handing out free Viagra, spicing up the sex lives of dozens of elderly men and their partners.


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Ethiopians protest U.S. mutilation case
AP   Sunday, 19 November 2006
AP - About 2,000 people demonstrated on Saturday to demand the release of an Ethiopian immigrant sentenced to 10 years in prison in the United States for mutilating the genitals of his 2-year-old daughter.
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Britain launches drive against surge in sexually-transmitted diseases
AFP   Saturday, 11 November 2006

An employee of a condom factory verifying condoms, May 2002. The British government has launched a hard-hitting, multi-million pound campaign aimed at fighting a surge in sexually-transmitted diseases, particularly among 18 to 24 year olds.(AFP/DDP/File/Jens-Ulrich Koch)AFP - The British government has launched a hard-hitting, multi-million pound campaign aimed at fighting a surge in sexually-transmitted diseases, particularly among 18 to 24 year olds.


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Homeless shelter residents receptive to STD testing
Reuters   Saturday, 11 November 2006
Reuters - The vast majority of people living in homeless shelters are willing to undergo testing for sexually transmitted infections (STI), and to receive treatment if they are found to have these infections, a new study shows.
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