District effort urges residents to know their HIV status.
Armed with oral swabs and a catchy Madison Avenue-style slogan, the District of Columbia is taking the efforts on HIV/AIDS into its streets and neighborhoods. With the recent roll-out of an $8 million screening campaign, the District--the city with the highest AIDS rate in the nation--has become the first...

Pap smear prevalence and that of pre-malignant and malignant cervical lesions amongst women living in the Carmen initiative demonstration area, Bucaramanga, Colombia *.
Prevalencia de uso de citología vaginal y de lesiones premalignas y malignas del cérvix entre las mujeres del área demostrativa Carmen, Bucaramanga, Colombia SUMMARY Objective: Establishing the prevalence of premalignant and malignant cervical lesions amongst women living in the CARMEN initiative demonstration area, Bucaramanga, Colombia....

AHF on STD Crisis: DPH Fiddles While L.A. Burns.
Six Months After County Releases Report on L.A. Syphilis Outbreak, DPH Has Done Little to Address Urgent Public Health Issue AIDS Healthcare Foundation Calls County's Latest Plan 'Inadequate' and Urges DPH to Collaborate With Community Groups on Stepped-Up Screening LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ --...

An introduction to the herpes viruses.
INTRODUCTION The word herpes evokes an emotional response from almost everyone. Eighty percent of the world's population has serological evidence of the herpes simplex virus type one (HSV-1, generally orolabial herpes), while 20 to 30 percent of the U.S. population is seropositive for the herpes virus type...

Stop! Reading this page could save your life. I'm not kidding.
There's nothing more important to me than the well-being of the millions of girls who read GL. That's why I want to tell you about the biggest health breakthrough for young women since we started this magazine in 1994. This summer, the FDA approved a vaccine called Gardasil. What's...

53 vaccine protects against cervical cancer.
MEDICINE--Each year cervical cancer kills about 250,000 women around the world, most of them in developing regions without basic health care. Since the 1980s, when scientists discovered that human papillomavirus plays a role in nearly all cases of cervical cancer, researchers have worked to create a vaccine. This year...

Preventing behavior problems and health-risking behaviors in girls in foster care.
Abstract Transition into middle school presents complex challenges, including exposure to a larger peer group, increased expectations for time management and self-monitoring, renegotiation of rules with parents, and pubertal changes. For children in foster care, this transition is complicated by their maltreatment histories, living situation changes, and...

The buzz about the birds and the bees.
Byline: Roshni Olivera In the second part of the series, We find that parents support initiating sex education early in schools. Yesterday, Bombay Times highlighted the need for better sex education for children. Experts, including sexologists and psychiatrists, believe that the process should start at...

Adopted youths no more likely to engage in high-risk activities.
ST. LOUIS -- Despite feeling more emotional distress and disconnection from their families, adolescents who are adopted don't appear to engage in more high-risk behaviors or have worse adult outcomes than nonadopted adolescents, Dr. Cheryl Kodjo reported in a poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Adolescent...

Sustained Response at Month 12 for Transgene's TG 4001 in HPV-Induced Precancerous Lesions of the Cervix and Next Clinical Development Steps.
STRASBOURG, France, November 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Transgene S.A. (Eurolist Paris: FR0005175080) announces today updated data of the completed Phase II trial and development plans going forward for TG 4001, Transgene's therapeutic HPV vaccine for treating precancerous lesions of the cervix (high grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia - CIN 2/3). ...