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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; STDs</title>
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	<description>An intellectual climate favorable to marriage</description>
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		<title>Marriage and AIDS in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/14/marriage-and-aids-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/14/marriage-and-aids-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexually Transmitted Diseases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan Here’s a question of special relevance to regions where there is a high incidence of HIV/AIDS &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heads in the sand over AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/12/07/heads-in-the-sand-over-aids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/12/07/heads-in-the-sand-over-aids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexually Transmitted Diseases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan How many more lives, how many billions of dollars, will be sacrificed to western sexual ideology? 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad shot: when will WHO warn women about the contraceptive jab?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/28/bad-shot-when-will-who-warn-women-about-the-contraceptive-jab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/28/bad-shot-when-will-who-warn-women-about-the-contraceptive-jab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexually Transmitted Diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan The latest strong evidence that hormonal contraception is linked with AIDS finds experts still dallying. Early this month The Lancet medical journal published a study that should have stopped birth control missionaries in Africa dead in their tracks. An international research team reported finding a strong link between HIV transmission and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad idea: Gardasil for boys</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/28/bad-idea-gardasil-for-boys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/28/bad-idea-gardasil-for-boys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexually Transmitted Diseases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. Earlier this week, an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STD vaccine mandate looms in Calif.</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/07/std-vaccine-mandate-looms-in-calif/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/07/std-vaccine-mandate-looms-in-calif/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexually Transmitted Diseases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Becky Yeh A pro-family leader is calling on California&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginity Rising</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/12/virginity-rising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsletter articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Maggie Gallagher 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. Compared with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STD Vaccination Without Parent Knowledge Bill&#8217;s Opposition Growing Legislators Apparently Pressured to Take a Second Look</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/11/std-vaccination-without-parent-knowledge-bills-opposition-growing-legislators-apparently-pressured-to-take-a-second-look/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/11/std-vaccination-without-parent-knowledge-bills-opposition-growing-legislators-apparently-pressured-to-take-a-second-look/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parental Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill May AB 499, the bill which permits 12 year old children to give consent, without their parents&#8217; 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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STD Vaccinations for Children without Parents&#8217; Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/13/std-vaccinations-for-children-without-parents-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/13/std-vaccinations-for-children-without-parents-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=7684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pill&#8217;s Deadly Affair with HIV/AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/05/the-pills-deadly-affair-with-hivaids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/05/the-pills-deadly-affair-with-hivaids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fifty Years on the Pill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexually Transmitted Diseases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joan Robinson 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&#8217;s deadliest killer, HIV/AIDS, and the Birth Control Pill have been carrying on a secret and deadly &#8220;love affair&#8221; for decades. While women swallowed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time to vaccinate boys against HPV?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/23/time-to-vaccinate-boys-against-hpv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/23/time-to-vaccinate-boys-against-hpv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=6100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan 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. A study funded by Gardasil manufacturer Merck &#38; Co (as well as some private sources) and published in the New England [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenage birth control and its unfortunate consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/10/teenage-birth-control-and-its-unfortunate-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/10/teenage-birth-control-and-its-unfortunate-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=5760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems like a logical conclusion they should have come to in advance. by Carolyn Moynihan 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstinence redefined?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/01/07/abstinence-redefined/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/01/07/abstinence-redefined/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=5211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>157</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reducing Risk, Increasing AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/02/reducing-risk-increasing-aids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/02/reducing-risk-increasing-aids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[african americans]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=3079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sigh. Why doesn&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardasil Primer: Doctors &amp; vaccine injured families speak out!</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/29/gardasil-primer-doctors-vaccine-injured-families-speak-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/29/gardasil-primer-doctors-vaccine-injured-families-speak-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=2991</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Hope, change and AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/12/02/hope-change-and-aids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/12/02/hope-change-and-aids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; the first in the era of &#8220;hope and change&#8221;. So it is a particularly good time to ponder how well &#8220;risk reduction&#8221; measures for AIDS control &#8212; the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Guard Against the Gardasil Juggernaut</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/06/on-guard-against-the-gardasil-juggernaut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/11/06/on-guard-against-the-gardasil-juggernaut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls and Gardasil: the protection game</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/31/girls-and-gardasil-the-protection-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/31/girls-and-gardasil-the-protection-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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