Bans on same-sex marriage can be tied to a rise in the rate of HIV infection, a new study by two Emory economists has found.

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All Vatican press conferences are conducted in Italian, which the German-born Pope speaks fluently and which Vatican-accredited reporters are also expected to speak.

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The latest annual report on the burden of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States, produced by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shows that STDs are still widespread, in some cases on the rise, and remain a serious threat to American public healt …

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A VACCINE against cervical cancer will be given to schoolgirls without them receiving any safe sex advice as a result of a controversial deal struck between the Catholic Church and health officials, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. From next month, 12 and 13-year-old girls at all  …

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Planned Parenthood took me "Down There" and exposed it all. The self-evident wrongheadedness of their thinking, that is.

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More than half of all people will have a sexually transmitted disease or infection at some point in their life, the American Social Health Association reports. One of the least noticeable, but potentially most life-threatening infections, is the human papillomavirus, or HPV.

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One in four adults in NYC has herpes, study finds Find out more

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At a conference this week in Geneva, Dr. Arash Rezazadeh from the University of Louisville presented the findings of the study, which found HPV in six out of 23 lung cancer samples.

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At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said this week it will require manufacturers of over-the-counter vaginal contraceptive and spermicidal products to include a warning that they do not provide protection against HIV infection or other sexually transmitted diseases.

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ATLANTA (AP) - In a troubling reversal, the nation's teen birth rate rose for the first time in 15 years, surprising government health officials and reviving the bitter debate about abstinence-only sex education. The birth rate had been dropping since its peak in 1991, although  …

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On Oct. 2, a federal jury in Kansas City found Thomas W. Schaefer liable for negligently infecting Vecchio with genital herpes. The incurable, sexually transmitted disease causes periodic outbreaks of painful genital sores.

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Last year in Mobile County, 4,629 new cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were reported -- enough instances of the sexually transmitted diseases to account for one out of every 87 people, according to a Press-Register review of state and federal statistics.

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Jefferson County public health officials who have been battling a syphilis outbreak for more than a year are calling for increased testing for the sexually transmitted disease, which has erupted elsewhere in the state.

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I've never placed, nor answered, a personal ad. Never dated my boss. Never gotten drunk at the office Christmas party and snogged a coworker. Never had my heart broken by a boy who was shaving regularly.

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'NEARLY ONE in two African-American adults has genital herpes. Could it be you? Could it be your partner?... A simple blood test is the best way to know if you have it."

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CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is now among the "superbugs" resistant to common antibiotics, leading U.S. health officials to recommend wider use of a different class of drugs to avert a public health crisis.....

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I used all of the suggested tags for this article to show how they don't work. Nice try though. I added these:HIV, murder, homophobia and sexually transmitted disease. This story should generate reads on it's own.

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From the page: -- No one wants to talk about it, but a dramatic rise in cases of the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia - up by 250 per cent in the past decade - could be making a generation of young women infertile. --

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