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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Fact File

HIV/AIDS

Health: Library - 17 November 2005
From the time it first appeared in the early 1980s, HIV/AIDS has gone from being a death sentence to a chronic but manageable condition - in the developed world, with modern antiviral drugs, someone with HIV can live a normal life span. In the developing world though, it's a very different story.

Tags: aids-and-hiv, sexually-transmitted-diseases

Fact File

Herpes Simplex Virus

Health: Library - 05 May 2005
The two strains of the herpes simplex virus cause both cold sores and genital herpes. Both cause a lifelong infection.

Tags: sexually-transmitted-diseases, sexual-health

Condoms: pleasure and protection

Health Minutes - 17 May 2007
Experts say use of condoms would increase if they were marketed as a sex aid.

Tags: aids-and-hiv, sexually-transmitted-diseases, sexual-health, health-policy

Condoms: pleasure and protection

Health Minutes - 18 December 2006
Experts say use of condoms would increase if they were marketed as a sex aid.

Tags: aids-and-hiv, sexually-transmitted-diseases, sexual-health, health-policy

Love hurts: living with herpes

Health: Your Stories - 14 December 2006
Dealing with the symptoms of herpes is bad enough, but as Kathy Graham discovered, getting an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment was even more painful.

Tags: sexually-transmitted-diseases, sexual-health, relationships

Factors affecting safe sex

Health Minutes - 28 November 2006
A survey of the sexual attitudes of young people around the world identifies seven factors that get in the way of safe sex - including social pressures and dislike of condoms.

Tags: youth, aids-and-hiv, sexually-transmitted-diseases, sexual-health

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