Young women should receive twice-yearly screening for the sexually-transmitted chlamydia bug, according to experts.

Schools should play an active role in warning children as young as five about the dangers of promiscuous unsafe sex, say doctors.

UNAIDS Documents: Care and Prevention Index - Female condoms

Turkey rescinds law that allowed schools to conduct virginity tests on students

Turkey has rescinded a controversial law that authorized virginity tests for high school girls suspected of having premarital sex.

Forced gynecological examinations in schools were common until 1999, when five students who did not want to submit to the test attempted suicide by taking rat poison.

So for those of you who are wondering the site has been a mess since the night before Christmas 2001. Our host went bankrupt and shut down taking all the current builds with it. It took me a while to find a new host and to begin bringing everything back up again. Of course as soon as I began that process in January 2002 I had a hard drive failure which caused innumerable problems, delays, and headaches for all involved.

I am finally starting to get all the pieces stitched back together. Stay tuned and hopefully all will be well again soon.

Pursuing the hunt for the origin of AIDS, researchers have found an HIV-like virus in a single chimpanzee in the wild for the first time -- and in a different part of Africa than they'd suspected.

A new vasectomy technique which avoids the use of invasive surgery could encourage more squeamish men to have one, suggests a study.