Kenya: Rights Group Condemns Mandatory HIV Testing
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Kenya National Commission of Human Rights (KNCHR) has condemned the discrimatory action by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) of dismissing 133 candidates after being subjected to mandatory HIV and pregnancy testing in a recruiting process. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 18, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs East Africa Health and Medicine Human Rights Kenya Source Type: news

Europe sees ‘troubling rise’ in STIs including gonorrhoea
European health officials have reported a ‘troubling surge’ in sexually transmitted infections (STI), with gonorrhoea cases rising by almost half. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said there had also been a significant increase in cases of syphilis and chlamydia. A report reviewing STI infections in Europe in 2022 found that the number... Read moreThe post Europe sees ‘troubling rise’ in STIs including gonorrhoea appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - March 18, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Clinical Latest news Sexual health Source Type: news

Africa: Researchers Link HIV Infections Spike to Drought
[New Times] Scientists say droughts could heighten the transmission of HIV, particularly through activities like transactional sex, The East African reports. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 18, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs Climate East Africa Environment Eswatini Health and Medicine Lesotho Southern Africa Uganda Zambia Source Type: news

Africa: Africans Can Solve the Disease That Haunts Us - - Here's How
[IPS] Boston, US -- I was born in Brakpan, Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in eSwatini (known then as Swaziland). People in these two countries share one predominant fear: unemployment. Other worries in these countries and others in the region include unwanted pregnancies, low income and food safety. The diseases that are dreaded the most are cancer and diabetes. Feared infectious diseases include HIV-AIDS, COVID and cholera. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 16, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs External Relations Health and Medicine Tuberculosis United States, Canada and Africa Source Type: news

Inexperience Diagnosing Syphilis Adding to Higher Rates Inexperience Diagnosing Syphilis Adding to Higher Rates
After years of not seeing any cases of syphilis, rising rates mean that clinicians are having to refresh their diagnostic and treatment skills for the sexually transmitted infection.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Africa: Reductions in New HIV Infections in Several Global HIV Prevention Coalition Countries, but Global Progress Needs to Be Accelerated
[UNAIDS] A new report, HIV Prevention: From Crisis to Opportunity shows that HIV infections continue to decline in countries that are part of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition (GPC) faster than in the rest of the world. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 13, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news

Impact of a college sexual violence prevention program on condom use: a mediation analysis - Laterra A, Reidy D, Salazar L.
College-age students are disproportionately impacted by sexually transmitted infections. Campus programs that reduce sexual violence have received recent investment, are increasingly common, and may offer a platform to increase condom use, but this has not... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Africa: At the 68th Commission On Status of Women UNAIDS Calls for Action to Achieve Gender Equality and End Aids
[UNAIDS] Geneva/New York -- UNAIDS is gearing up for the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW68) which begins today and will run until 22 March 2024. #CSW68, the United Nations largest annual gathering on gender equality and women's empowerment, is being held this year under the priority theme, Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 11, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Women and Gender Source Type: news

‘I’m never going to be Tony’: Jeanne Marrazzo, Anthony Fauci’s successor, vows a new direction at NIAID
When Jeanne Marrazzo started her residency at the Yale New Haven Hospital in 1988, the world was a very different place. Marrazzo provided care for dying AIDS patients—mainly gay men and intravenous drug users and their sexual partners. “Stigma was alive and well and thriving, and in fact, really, really ugly at the time,” Marrazzo told an audience of young scientists on 3 March in Denver, just before the start of an HIV/AIDS conference. “You really sometimes had to work hard to get your patients what you needed. That made me interested in political and scientific advocacy and activism very early on.” At th...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news

England's STI hotspots exposed: How rates of gonorrhoea and chlamydia have soared by up to 500% in parts of Devon, Yorkshire and Tyne and Wear... so how bad is the situation in YOUR area?
STIs are on the rise across England but some areas are faring far worse when it comes to rates of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis as our fascinating interactive map demonstrates. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

England's STI hotspots exposed: As startling data warns of surging rates across Europe, fascinating interactive map lays bare rates of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis in YOUR area
STIs are on the rise across England but some areas are faring far worse when it comes to rates of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis as our fascinating interactive map demonstrates. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cumulative lifetime violence and bacterial vaginosis infection in sexually transmitted infections: findings from a retrospective cohort study among Black women at risk for HIV - Tesfai Y, Lucea MB, Chan E, Asuquo T, Zhu H, Gaines TL, Campbell JC, Stockman JK, Tsuyuki K.
This study examines the association between cumulative lifetime violence exposure, bacteria... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news

Africa: International Women's Day, 2024 - Rural Tajik Woman's Road to Empowering Women Living With HIV
[IPS] Bratislava -- This feature is part of a series to mark International Women's Day, March 8. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 8, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs Health and Medicine Women and Gender Source Type: news

Southern Africa: Parliament, SADC-PF Sign Agreement On SRHR Project
[Nyasa Times] The Parliament of Malawi and the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) on Wednesday, 6th March, 2024 signed an agreement on the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights and HIV and AIDS Governance (SRHR) Project. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 7, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs Health and Medicine Malawi Southern Africa Source Type: news

Warning over surge in STIs across Europe as experts say rates of gonorrhoea, syphilis and chlamydia have soared by almost 50% in wake of pandemic
Holiday destinations popular with Brits such as Spain , Italy and Malta are among those which have reported a surge in STIs in data recorded by the ECDC for 2022. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news