Posted Saturday July 19, 2008, 10:13 am, Over one day old
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has created a toolkit that aims to educate young women worldwide about the disease, South Africa's The Star reports. The international launch of the toolkit was held on Thursday at the association's conference in Boksburg, South Africa.
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Posted Saturday July 19, 2008, 10:13 am, Over one day old
Texas leads the nation in spending on abstinence-only sex education and broadly imposes restrictions on what teachers are allowed to tell students about sex and contraception, the Austin American-Statesman reports.
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Posted Saturday July 19, 2008, 10:13 am, Over one day old
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 7:49 am, Over one day old
A Michigan organization, the Stem Cell Research Ballot Question Committee, said it had filed more than 570,000 signatures in support of a ballot initiative to loosen state restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, the AP/Google.com reports. According to the AP/Google.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 7:49 am, Over one day old
The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology on Monday at its annual conference in Barcelona, Spain, said that it is preparing to test the effectiveness of making low-cost in vitro fertilization procedures available throughout Africa, the AP/Google.com reports.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 7:49 am, Over one day old
Members of the group NoToPope Coalition on Wednesday protested Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to Sydney, Australia, for Catholic World Youth Day, in part because of the Roman Catholic church's ban on condom use and contraception, the
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 7:49 am, Over one day old
Women who use microbicides in an effort to protect themselves from HIV could end up with fewer treatment options if they contract the virus because of possible drug resistance, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Reuters reports.
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