I am packing on about 8 extra pounds past my norm, post-pregnancy…and I say “post-pregnancy” very lightly as my second child will already be six months this week. I have fallen into the mom trap of blaming my last child for my extra weight. I know some mothers who blame their children for their “baby [...]

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Each year in the United States, over 55,000 people contract HIV. Considering the wealth of AIDS/HIV information that has been dispersed since the early 1980s when HIV first arrived on the scene in the US, the statistics are staggering. Currently, both the International AIDS Society and the government recommend that a patient newly infected with [...]

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Condoms are considered one of the best birth control methods out in the market today.  Unlike other contraceptives, they’ve been proven to be effective in the use of STD and HIV/AIDS prevention.  Latex condoms, however, are the most effective when compared to lambskin condoms. While protective against pregnancy, lambskin condoms do not offer the same [...]

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