From AOLNews Ehlers, a 62-year-old physician, lab researcher and hematologist — and a mother of two daughters — spent the next four decades developing a female condom with jagged latex hooks that latch onto the skin of an attacker. Dubbed “Rape-aXe,” the condom is inserted with an applicator like a tampon, and it clenches a […]
As much as 16 percent of the U.S. population between the ages of 14 and 49 has genital herpes, according to a government study released Tuesday. And sexually transmitted diseases of all varieties infect 19 million more Americans every year — a rate that costs the health care system some $16 billion annually, the National […]
Anti-retroviral treatments (ARVs) and universal testing could stop the spread of Aids in South Africa within five years, a top scientist says.
On the eve of World AIDS Day, the troubling incidence of AIDS among African- American women serves as a reminder of how far we must travel to effectively manage this disease
Did you know that 1 in 32 black women will be infected with HIV in their lifetimes, if current trends continue? Did you know…?…
