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Sex hormones impact career choices

(Medical Xpress) -- Teacher, pilot, nurse or engineer? Sex hormones strongly influence people's interests, which affect the kinds of occupations they choose, according to psychologists.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Self-collection of samples for HPV testing shows promise in detection of cervical cancer in Kenya

In Kenya, women face a cervical cancer mortality rate that is approximately 10 times as high as in the United States. A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that training women ...

Cancer created May 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US unveils road map to AIDS-free generation (Update)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled Thursday an ambitious US blueprint on how to realize the dream of an AIDS-free generation, aiming to see virtually no babies born with HIV by 2015.

HIV & AIDS created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

New study finds clients want real love from sex workers

While it is commonly believed that men who pay for sex are attempting to avoid emotional commitment, a new study finds that men who become regular clients of sex workers often develop feelings of romance and love. This study ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Aug 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Drugs used to treat HIV also reduce risk of HIV infection

People at high risk of HIV infection can reduce their risk of acquiring the disease by taking antiretroviral drugs, according to Cochrane researchers. In an update of a systematic review first published in 2009, the researchers ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Being female or less affluent still linked to early death in cystic fibrosis

Despite improvements in survival for people with cystic fibrosis over the last 50 years, females and individuals from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds continue to die younger than males and the more privileged ...

Health created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WHO says Cambodia can end HIV infections by 2020

Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020, the World Health Organization said Friday.

HIV & AIDS created May 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AIDS journal publishes findings of two important studies

The results of two important studies have been published in the March issue of AIDS, the official journal of the International AIDS Society. One study notes that screening for HIV should be performed more frequently—up t ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds incentive price for reducing HIV risk in Mexico

Studies have found that conditional cash transfer programs, in which governments pay citizens if they consistently practice societally beneficial behaviors, have improved pediatric health care and education ...

HIV & AIDS created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ukraine fights spreading HIV epidemic

(AP)—Andrei Mandrykin, an inmate at Prison No. 85 outside Kiev, has HIV. He looks ghostly and much older than his 35 years. But Mandrykin is better off than tens of thousands of his countrymen, because ...

HIV & AIDS created Nov 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brazil anti-AIDS effort uses indigenous language

(AP)—Brazil is using an indigenous language for the first in a campaign aimed at curbing violence against women and the spread of HIV.

HIV & AIDS created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds non-disclosure of HIV serostatus common among India female sex workers

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in partnership with Indian researchers and HIV positive networks groups, have found that in India, non-disclosure of HIV serostatus to sex partners among both HIV-infected ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Safer sex work spaces reduce violence and HIV risks for street-involved women

Safer indoor sex work spaces provide important and potentially life-saving benefits to sex workers including reduced exposure to violence and HIV and improved relationships with police, according to a study published by the ...

Health created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In developing countries, female sex workers 14 times more likely to become infected by HIV

Female sex workers in low- and middle-income countries are nearly 14 times more likely to be infected by HIV compared to the rest of country's population, according to an analysis by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Russia HIV infections rise 5% in 2011: official

Russia in 2011 saw a rise of five percent in the number of new HIV infections to 62,000 cases amid worrying signs that heterosexuals and women are increasingly at risk, its chief doctor said Monday.

HIV & AIDS created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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