Most adolescent girls should wait until they turn 21 to have their first Pap test, but those who have HIV and others with weakened immune systems should begin routine cervical cancer screening right away, according to The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists…

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Men who consistently use condoms during sex are less likely to contract human papillomavirus than those who do not, according to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Reuters reports. There are more than 100 strains of HPV, some of which can cause genital warts and lead to cervical cancer in women and [...] Read more »

Scientists at the Health Protection Agency (HPA), the University of Manchester and the Manchester Royal Infirmary have found that the cervical cancer vaccine could prevent more cases of the disease in England than previously thought, according to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer. This could potentially reduce the annual number of cases [...] Read more »

Afghan Government Tells Foreign Donors How Aid Should Be Spent “The Afghan government wants foreign donors to focus 80 percent of the billions of dollars flowing into the country on priority projects it believes are key to pulling the country out of poverty and turmoil, Afghan officials said,” the Associated [...] Read more »

California’s ongoing budget crisis is raising doubts about the viability of the state’s Every Woman Counts breast and cervical cancer screening program for low-income women, the San Jose Mercury News reports (Theriault, San Jose Mercury News, 7/10)…

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Richard Graham, Conservative MP for Gloucester, will be visiting HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) on Friday 30 July at 11.00am. The centre provides a dedicated range of sexual health services, including one-hour HIV testing, one to one counselling, and support groups for people living with HIV…

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The New York Times examines a set of questions raised by news out of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 last week that a microbicide gel containing the antiretroviral (ARV) tenofovir used by women before and after sex helped reduce their risk of HIV infection by 39 percent. “After more than a [...] Read more »

Hormonal contraceptives change the ways captive ring-tailed lemurs relate to one another both socially and sexually, according to a Duke University study that combined analyses of hormones, genes, scent chemicals and behavior. Contraception alters the chemical cues these scent-reliant animals use to determine genetic fitness, relatedness and individuality…

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Following results of a trial in which a microbicide gel lowered a woman’s risk of HIV by 39%, health experts are considering how to make the treatment more effective and what its applications might be, the New York Times reports (McNeil, New York Times, 7/26)…

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The human papillomavirus increasingly is being identified as the cause of head and neck cancers, prompting some physicians to guess that the genesis of the cancers might be oral sex, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. David Brizel, an oncologist at Duke University who specializes in head and neck cancers, said, “A third of head [...] Read more »