
SEX SURVEY 2006 RESULTS PART 2 (Sex education that is) In the second part of Scotland’s biggest ever sex survey, we look at how teens are losing out when it comes to the facts of life
By Annie Brown
NEARLY two-thirds of young people think sex education is not good enough.
The Daily Record’s Sex Survey revealed 62 […]
Maputo
“Women are born to live and not to die”, declared Mozambique’s former first lady, Graca Machel on Saturday.
Machel, who currently heads one of Mozambique’s best-known NGOs, the Community Development Foundation (FDC), was speaking at the opening session in Maputo of a meeting of African Women Leaders, and she was referring to the high rates of […]
Much has been said about the lyrics of the song, “What It’s Hitting For,” and the performance of that song last Tuesday evening at the School of Communications pageant. The performance was like many others, that’s why in Friday morning’s Hilltop I was shocked, like many, to find the lyrics of the song and its […]
Policemen patrol outside the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in downtown Kingston on March 31, 2005 after one warder and three inmates were killed during an attempted prison break. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer
Within the past decade, there have been articles on the distribution of condoms in Jamaican prisons, reports on institutional violence and riots, inmate […]
Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff Reporter
(AHN) - A survey of New York City men finds that nearly one in 10 who identify themselves as “straight” have sex only with other men.
About 70 percent of these men are married. Ten percent of all married men reported have sex with men during the past year.
D. […]
Reuters Photo: Marchers listen to speakers during the Campaign to End AIDS march at the opening of…
WASHINGTON- More than a quarter of New Yorkers infected with the AIDS virus are now dying of other causes, researchers said on Monday.
An analysis of 68,669 New York City residents infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, found […]
Nearly 50 percent of black gay and bisexual men in some American cities are estimated to be infected with HIV.
Black women account for nearly 70 percent of newly infected cases.
Black youth represent nearly 56 percent of the new AIDS cases.
Of the 1 million people who are living with HIV/AIDS, nearly half of them are black
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Vietnam on Friday launched its first HIV prevention campaign aimed at controlling the spread of the virus among young people in the country, Viet Nam News reports (Viet Nam News, 9/12). The Asian Development Bank in July provided the country with a $20 million grant to help fund the project, which will use the mass […]
Joan
Q I AM 16-years-old and have been with my boyfriend for just over seven months. We feel we are ready to have sex because we have done other stuff.
The trouble is that, when we went to do it, we couldn’t manage.
Is there something wrong with me, or does this just mean I’m not ready?
A I […]