I was raised as a Catholic…if you call going to church for Christmas and Easter “being raised” as a Catholic. I remember the Pope, John Paul II at the time, visiting my hometown as I was growing up and all of us lining the streets and stopping traffic just for the chance to catch a [...]

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Researching and writing about condoms, HIV and AIDS as much as I do, my mind almost always turns to Africa where HIV has reached epidemic levels in several countries. So, my jaw just dropped when I read the recent report that the HIV rate in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., was being compared to those [...]

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Ladies, if you have ever endured childbirth, more than likely you know that even while having intense contractions that make you want to punch whoever is within reach at the moment, nurses are coming in every five minutes poking and prodding you and checking this and that. Sure, they mean well, but give a woman [...]

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