Here’s a question of special relevance to regions where there is a high incidence of HIV/AIDS — in particular, sub-Saharan Africa: Does marriage protect a person against the disease? An editorial published in the official Zimbabwean newspaper, The Herald, this week scoffs at the idea, saying, “Nothing could be further from the truth.” Read more…
Every year since 1988 the joyful tidings of Christmas have been preceded by the increasingly upbeat message of World AIDS Day, December 1. This year’s theme of “Getting to zero” was launched last month by Hillary Clinton announcing that an “AIDS-free generation” was within grasp if the United States and countries around the world would team up on scientific advancements. President Obama threw an extra $50 million in that direction and he was joined by former presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton in promising greater commitment to eradicating the disease. The catch-line, “beginning of the end”, was scripted in the White House. Bono, Elton John and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leant their faces to the cause. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
Gardasil, a vaccine used to inoculate young girls against a form of cervical cancer, is now being recommended for boys ages 11 to 12. Some sources consider that to be a bad idea and not cost-effective. Read more…
by Becky Yeh
A pro-family leader is calling on California’s governor to veto a dangerous bill that he and other family advocates believe undermines parental authority and the safety of children.
Governor Jerry Brown has several days to decide on the fate of AB 499, a bill that would allow minors as young as 12 years of age to consent to “medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.” The bill, introduced by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins (D), would allow children to agree to vaccines and treatments without the consent of parents, including the vaccine Gardasil. Read more…
Shocking news: Virginity is on the rise in America.
The source is sober, academic, practically irrefutable: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Its latest analysis of the sex lives of Americans age 15 to 44 includes a startling finding: Virginity is increasing among teens and young adults in the U.S. Read more…
by Bill May
AB 499, the bill which permits 12 year old children to give consent, without their parents’ knowledge, for vaccines or other medication to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, was surprisingly pulled from the Senate floor July 7 and referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. A new hearing has been scheduled for August 15. Read more…
by Bill May
Children Over 12 Can Consent to SDT Vaccines
AB 499 is End Run by Planned Parenthood, et al.
Hearing Tuesday: Call Senate Judiciary Committee Members
In 2007 there was a proposal for mandatory vaccines for school children to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases. It died after an uproar then. But now the drug companies, Planned Parenthood, NARAL and others are back, trying to get the legislature to sneak a bill through that would let children 12 years old and above give consent to be vaccinated without their parents knowledge. This is one of the most outrageous bills we have seen. Read more…
The U.S. is contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS among African women by its reckless distribution of hormonal contraceptives of all kinds in so-called “reproductive health” programs.
The world’s deadliest killer, HIV/AIDS, and the Birth Control Pill have been carrying on a secret and deadly “love affair” for decades. While women swallowed their “freedom” with the morning orange juice, studies that should have made global headlines yellowed in medical journals, unknown to the general public. Only doctors learned about the pills deadly affair with HIV/AIDS, and they were too busy writing prescriptions for hormonal contraceptives to talk. Read more…
Five years after western governments began to fund vaccination of girls against the sexually transmitted, cancer-causing, human papillomavirus (HPV) medical professionals and drug companies are calling for subsidised vaccination for boys. Read more…
Seems like a logical conclusion they should have come to in advance.
A decade ago public health experts and frontline health professionals convinced the UK government that easy (free, over the counter) access to the morning after pill would bring down the country’s record rates of teenage pregnancy. It hasn’t, but it has helped to increase sexually transmitted infections among teens. Read more…
by Bill Bumpas
A study published this week in the journal Pediatrics says ten percent of teens who said they were abstinent also tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease. But an advocate for abstinence says the sex-education curricula in most schools could be blamed for those numbers.
Of the 964 teens who tested positive for an STD, 118 claimed they had not had sexual intercourse in the last 12 months, and 60 said they had never had intercourse in their lives. The study, based on its findings, recommends that all teens receiving clinical services — regardless if they self-report as being sexually abstinent — be tested for prevalent STDs such as gonorrhea and chlamydia.
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Sigh. Why doesn’t anyone pay attention to this stuff?
by Matthew Hanley
The predominant Western approach to preventing the spread of AIDS in Africa has failed. Though in theory the risk reduction strategies favored by Western governments and aid agencies—handing out condoms, promoting counseling and testing, and treating other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to block HIV transmission—can “work” in theory, they have not done so in practice. In Africa, despite years of promised improvements, they have not brought any downturn at all. Read more…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJsEEXDGAsk
This is really enlightening and frightening! Parents of daughters, watch this. Especially read the text that scrolls on the page part way through the video.
Matthew Hanley, Mercatornet.com
World AIDS Day 2009 reminds us once again of the failure of risk reduction strategies.
December 1, 2009 is World AIDS Day — the first in the era of “hope and change”. So it is a particularly good time to ponder how well “risk reduction” measures for AIDS control — the most emphasised approaches to preventing new HIV cases — produce change and generate hope. Read more…
By George Delgado, M.D.
No one likes the feeling that something has been shoved down his or her throat. Merck, the pharmaceutical giant is looking like a bully in how it thrust Gardasil, the first genital human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, on the US market.
You might imagine genital HPV infection being like an iceberg. The small tip represents those infections that lead to cervical cancer. Below the water is the vast majority of the infections, those that do not transform into cervical cancer because they are cleared by the body. Read more…
Deirdre Fleming Mercatornet.com
A mother and public health student offers ten reasons not to vaccinate children against a sexually transmitted disease.
Imagine this. You are the parent of an eleven year old daughter. Early in the school year you receive a consent form for the standard Year 7 immunisations: Hepatitis B, Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis, Chickenpox and Human Papillomavirus (HPV). Do you just tick all the boxes, or do you spend time considering the implications of your decision? Read more…
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