According to U.N officials, rising food prices around the world are likely to drive poor women to trade sex for basic goods like fish and cooking oil, raising the risk of new AIDS infections. Delegates at a major AIDS conference in Mexico cited the cases of fisherwomen in the Pacific and women in Kenya desperate […]
Darjeeling in the Grip of HIV Infections
From the Hotbed of repeated Gorkhaland movements to the Hotspot of HIV infections, hill queen Darjeeling is reeling under severe HIV epidemic this year. As per the data released by National Aids Control Organization (NACO), Darjeeling has emerged as the new HIV hotspot with 2 persons in every 100 are testing HIV positive. The cut […]
Engineered White Blood Cells to Protect from HIV Infection
In an encouraging research, a 23-member team of scientists, at a children’s hospital in Philadelphia USA, have been able to create HIV-resistant white blood cells. Using a technique called ‘tweaking’, scientists have been able to tweak CCR5 molecules from the surface of white blood cells, modify a gene in the CD4 T cells of these […]
Viagra behind sexual infections?
British doctors have warned that there has been a drastic increase in sexually transmitted diseases (STD) among older men using Viagra, because it fuels extramarital affairs. According to British health information, rates of sexual infections such as gonorrhea more than tripled in men between 45 to 64 years of age and for fold increase among […]
A Health Guide to Treating Yeast Infection Safely
The troublesome symptoms of a vaginal yeast infection are not strange to women of today. In fact, records show that about $49 million are spent each year in North America alone on over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription treatments. Medical experts say that nearly all yeast infections are caused by a microorganism known as ‘Candida albicans.’ Normally, […]
Yeast Infection: Main Cause, Symptoms, and Treatments
The vexatious symptoms of a yeast infection are surely familiar to a lot of women (and to some men, too). A more appropriate statement, perhaps, is that yeast infection itself is too common as not to be known by most women and men of today. And what proof can lend credence to these statements, you […]
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