In a recent study performed in Ethiopia, close to a million people were tested for HIV. Of those million subjects, over seven percent tested positive for HIV. As grim as these statistics may sound, consider this: the previous year’s study found over five percent of the subjects tested positive for HIV. That is a 26% […]
Entries from December 2007
Company Markets Coffee-Flavored Condoms in Ethiopia
December 4th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: AIDS Prevention · In the News
Testing for STDs: Different STDs and their tests
December 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
If we lived in a perfect world, every person would go to the doctor before they decided to embark on a sexual relationship and get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. Then, each person would stock up on condoms and dental dams and use them properly for each sexual encounter. There would be no AIDS epidemic, […]
Tags: Safe Sex · AIDS Prevention
World AIDS Day 2007
December 1st, 2007 · No Comments
Since its inception in 1998, World AIDS Day has fought strongly to gain awareness, support and money to promote its campaign to educate the masses about the impact of AIDS and to rally against the prejudices and injustices those living with AIDS still face today. With the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimating […]
Tags: AIDS Prevention