Predators Home In on Developmentally Disabled Women

Geri Spieler / Truthdig Feb 18, 2019 It’s time society took seriously the care and protection of its most vulnerable citizens. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Doctors Are Failing Their Gay Patients

Liz Posner / AlterNet Jan 14, 2018 Many physicians either missed the class that dealt with sexual health questions, or their lack of attention to the subject is a conscious choice. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

VIDEO: John Oliver Makes the Star-Studded Sex Ed Video You’ll All Wish You’d Seen as Teens

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Aug 10, 2015 Sexual education is extremely important, and yet a lack of standardization means that schoolchildren all over the country receive very different information, some of which is false and a lot of which includes shaming kids (mainly girls) who have had or want to have sex. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

In Yet Another Medical Breakthrough, Cuba Takes a Huge Step Toward Eradicating AIDS

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jul 14, 2015 After we learned that the island nation has had a cancer-suppressing vaccine for several years, it seemed impossible the country could have achieved another medical milestone -- until the World Health Organization announced that Cuba had become the "first country to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to baby." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rise in STDs Attributed Almost Entirely to Males

Staff / Truthdig Jan 11, 2014 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found an 11 percent rise in syphilis and a 4 percent increase in gonorrhea cases in 2012 in the U.S. But what does the XY chromosome have to do with these sexually transmitted diseases? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Bill Gates Will Pay You as Much as $1 Million for a Better Condom

Staff / Truthdig Mar 23, 2013 Condoms are cheap and effective, but they also diminish sexual pleasure, and that gets in the way of lifesaving. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gonorrhea Nears Complete Drug Resistance

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 11, 2012 Gonorrhea is showing resistance to all but one antibiotic drug used against it, U.S. health officials announced this week. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Condom Crackdown Subverts HIV Prevention Efforts

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 19, 2012 Women who carry around condoms -- including sex workers who use them to protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases -- are being criminalized in cities across the United States, as police agencies view possession of prophylactics as evidence of prostitution. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gonorrhea ‘Superbugs’ Tearing Path Across the Globe

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 6, 2012 Drug-resistant strains of gonorrhea, including one reported in Japan in 2008, have spread to countries around the world, infecting more than 100 million people a year, in part because symptoms have become harder to detect, the World Health Organization says. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

CDC Urges ‘Boomers’ to Get Tested for Hep C Infection

Staff / Truthdig May 20, 2012 Did you know? May 19 is “National Hepatitis Testing Day” and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all baby boomers, the group believed to account for 75 percent of hepatitis C infections in the United States, get checked. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Not Everyone’s Doing It and That’s a Good Thing, Health Department Says

Staff / Truthdig May 2, 2012 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lists the Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, a pro-abstinence program aimed at middle and high schoolers, as one of almost three dozen "evidenced-based" sex education programs that qualify as effective in preventing teenage pregnancy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chlamydia Climbing

Staff / Truthdig Nov 20, 2011 Here’s a bit of bad news for the sexually active: Chlamydia infections in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2010 with 1.3 million cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's the largest number ever reported for any condition, the agency says. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )