According to the Centers for Disease Control, we’re slowly losing our ability to fight gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted disease. Increasingly, gonorrhea is proving resistant to even the strongest forms of antibiotics. That means we may not be far from a time where some cases of gonorrhea can’t be treated. “During the past three years, [...]
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The rate of pregnancy among teens has dropped. The rate of pregnancy among teens has dropped. Teen pregnancies are at their lowest rate in nearly 40 years, according to the latest data from the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization focused on sexual and reproductive health. The report shows that about 7 percent of U.S. teen [...]
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Migration is fuelling India’s HIV epidemic. National AIDS Control Organisation’s latest figures show that besides high risk populations like sex workers, the highest burden of HIV is among migrants – 3.6%, which is 10 times the HIV prevalence among the general population. With migration rates increasing, the prevalence will only get worse. According to the [...]
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Counterfeit anti-malaria drugs are being distributed throughout Africa to the extent that the lives of millions of people could be endangered. A report from the Wellcome Trust has revealed that low quality derivations of reputable anti-malarial drugs are being distributed throughout he African continent. The drugs are of such poor quality that there is an [...]
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Dr. Natasha Anushri Anandaraja, director of the Mount Sinai Global Health Training Center, and Dr. Sigrid Hahn have spent the past two years traveling with medical students from Mt. Sinai in New York City to remote Mozambique. Working with local health care providers there, their mission is to help villagers in some of the most [...]
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