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Widow Rituals Fuel Rituals In Africa: From Cleaning Corpses To Sex With Strangers

When Clarisse's husband died of malaria last year in the Cameroonian city of Douala, she was kicked out of their home by his family and forced to marry his brother. After h...

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Cuba Wipes Out Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission by Emphasizing Maternal Health and Universal Health Coverage, Says WHO

After a flurry of reports surfaced earlier this year that Cuba was the host of a particularly aggressive strain of HIV, the Caribbean island is now being lauded by the Worl...

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Colour-Changing Condom Can Help Detect Sexually Transmitted Infection

A group of students at the Isaac Newton Academy in Essex, England, have invented a “smart” condom to detect sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the wearer. ...

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Now there’s a way to diagnose HIV with a smartphone

Researchers at Columbia University have developed a gadget that can test for syphilis and HIV via a smartphone or tablet. Here’s how it works: The “dongle&rdquo...

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HIV on rise as gay men abandon condoms

Doctors are concerned that gay men with HIV are abandoning safe sex practices, and may unwittingly be spreading previously rare sexually transmitted infections such as syph...

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