Most sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are overshadowed by the most infamous STD i.e. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). Even though HIV is dangerous, diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis can also have a long-term impact on your life – even your ability to get pregnant! Here’s what you need to know: Continue reading “How the ‘other’ STDs can change your life”
Category: Sexual Health
Everything you need to know about genital herpes
Genital herpes is a common, highly infectious disease caused by a virus that infects the genital areas. It is transmitted from one person to another during sexual activity, causing blisters or groups of small ulcers (open sores) on and around the genitals in both men and women. Many people with genital herpes actually never have sores, or they have very mild symptoms that often go unnoticed, or are mistaken for insect bites or another skin condition. Continue reading “Everything you need to know about genital herpes”
South African schoolgirls to get HPV immunisation
Yesterday, President Zuma made the announcement that primary school girls would be immunised this year against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) – which is strongly linked to the development of cervical cancer.
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Ladies, are you ready for your own blue pill?
Is your low libido getting you, well, down? Are you getting anxious or is your relationship starting to take strain because of it? Don’t worry ladies, scientists are working on a new female Viagra that’s set to help boost your sex drive.
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Condoms are all the rage in Plett
No matter what nervous parents might think about the annual Matric Rage in Plettenburg Bay, one great thing is emerging from news reports – teenagers are buying condoms by the crate load.
To be honest, we’re not sure they’re always being used properly, as the sales of morning-after contraception pills has also gone through the roof, but the “condomise” message has clearly been received by SA teens.
Morning-after pill may not weigh up
Be careful, girls – if you’re voluptuous, it turns out that the morning-after pill may not work so well on you.
According to a news report, French scientists found that the specific morning-after contraceptive pill sold in France began losing effectiveness in women who weighed about 75kg, and did not work at all in women heavier than 80kg .
European health regulators had ordered a label change for the emergency contraceptive product sold by French company HRA Pharma under the brand name Norlevo, requiring it to include the drug’s diminishing effectiveness based on weight.
The US Food and Drug Administration is looking into whether other morning-after contraceptive pills fail to work in women over a certain weight. It will decide later whether to add a warning to the drug’s label.
Source:Â http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/11/27/emergency-contraceptive-weighed-up
A viagra too far?
A farmer and politician from Colombia has been forced to undergo a penis amputation after he overdosed on Viagra, according to news reports.
Admitting to a local newspaper, La Nciaon, that he had overdosed on Viagra to please his new girlfriend, the 66-year old man from Gigante, Huila, found that his penis had gone into what seemed to be a permanent state of erection.