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Text message service answers teen sex ed questions
Date: 2009-05-04 00:00:00

Providing anonymity for those asking awkward or embarrassing questions combined with easy access, cell phone text messages are yet another new approach public health officials are taking in order to communicate with teenagers about sex and STDs.... Full Story

Scientists discover new STD drug delivery system
Date: 2009-05-08 00:00:00

After STD Awareness Month in April, which was spent raising awareness of STDs and how people, young and old, should protect themselves by getting an STD test, it seems appropriate that now Yale researchers are reporting a possible new STD treatment.... Full Story

Mississippi officials worried about rise in STDs
Date: 2009-05-20 00:00:00

Mississippi public health officials, concerned about the rise in sexually transmitted diseases in the state, are meeting with school leaders to push for more education about abstinence and safer sex practices.... Full Story

Scientists: Political and religious leaders must do more on STD prevention
Date: 2009-05-29 00:00:00

The editors of the Public Library of Science journal PloS Medicine called on religious and political leaders to work harder in the fight for safer sex practices and the reduction of STDs in an editorial this week.... Full Story