STD Awareness: The HIV Epidemic at Home
In the United States, we understand HIV — the virus that causes AIDS — using a common narrative, one that gives us the impression that its deadliest chapters belong in decades past or distant places....
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Is Mouthwash a Match for Gonorrhea’s Superpowers?
Since the 1930s, we’ve enjoyed around eight decades of easily cured gonorrhea — at least in places with easy access to antibiotics — but experts fear those days are numbered. In the past year or so,...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Confronting Sky-High STD Rates
For the past five years, Americans have been breaking records left and right — a good thing when we’re talking about athletic feats or scientific breakthroughs, but not so great when we’re shattering...
View ArticleEnjoying the Condom of Today While Waiting for the Condom of the Future
When the “consent condom” was introduced last month, it made a minor media splash. The developers of this new condom, packaged in a box that required four hands to open, sought to place the concept of...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Can I Get Gonorrhea from Kissing?
Not all types of kissing feature the exchange of saliva. Some pretty depressing news hit a couple of months ago, when headlines proclaimed kissing could allow gonorrhea to jump from one person to...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Is Withholding HIV Status a Crime?
Image: The Gender Spectrum Collection If your sexual partner had HIV and did not tell you about it, how would you feel? Most of us would feel betrayed, lied to. We might be scared that we’d contracted...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: When Syphilis Goes North
The bacteria that cause syphilis are shaped like corkscrews. Image: David Cox, CDC Last month, a “weird” medical case made headlines. An Australian man with unexplained headaches and eye pain got a...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: COVID-19 and Your Sexual Health
The world has found itself in the clutches of a pandemic, and every day we’re learning about the ripple effects this new virus is having in everyone’s lives, not just the lives of those who cross its...
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