SIECUS Report back issues from June 2005:
Women's health issues: the personal, the medical, and the political.(reports)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2005; ... For most SIECUS Reports we pick a very specific topic and examine it closely. In recent issues we have looked at Marriage and Sex Workers, and, of course, each year we examine sexuality education. Issues like this, however, often turn out to be some of my favorites because we have so few ...
Fourteen years later--a mother's story revisited.(mother of a girl died of HIV)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Fourteen years ago, in Vol. 20 of the SIECUS Report, I wrote an anonymous story about discovering my daughter was HIV+ and the tragic family issues that ensued. That story received a lot of attention at a time when learning you had HIV was akin to a death sentence. This update, after the ...
Understanding Human Papillomavirus and cervical cancer.
Jun 22, 2005; ... <Pre> "You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across wierdish wild space ..." --Dr. Seuss </Pre> Indeed, charting a course through the HPV maze can be confusing. Once fairly obscure, genital ...
Emergency Contraception: the science and politics driving the debate.
Jun 22, 2005; ... Emergency Contraception (EC) refers to any type of birth control method used after intercourse to prevent pregnancy. The two possible methods are the emergency insertion of an Intrauterine Device (IUD) or the administration of emergency contraception pills. Emergency insertion of an IUD is ...
Emergency Contraception's mode of action clarified.
Jun 22, 2005 ... Emergency contraceptive pills, a hormonal treatment that can prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse, have been the subject of heated debate. At issue is the method's mechanism of action: does it prevent the meeting of egg and sperm, or does it prevent a ...
Subject to debate: virginity or death!(womens health)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Imagine a vaccine that would protect women from a serious gynecological cancer. Wouldn't that be great? Well, both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline recently announced that they have conducted successful trials of vaccines that protect against the human papilloma virus. HPV is not only an ...
Vulvodynia: a hidden women's health issue.(research)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Vulvodynia, or chronic vulvar pain, is a common problem affecting women. Historically, cases of vulvodynia with no apparent physical explanation were seen as resulting from psychosexual factors. However, we now understand that vulvodynia is a chronic pain disorder that typically leads to ...