It is World AIDS Day and everywhere you look there’s an article touching upon some aspect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This summer, I wrote a post on HIV in the older age groups prompted by a study that showed that older men taking erectile dysfunction drugs (eg. Viagra) had twice the rate of sexually transmitted illnesses […]
Hurrah for Pope Benedict XVI – Condoms for all
It’s almost surreal. Did the Pope actually suggest that the use of condoms to prevent the transmission of HIV is the lesser of two evils, even if their use prevents a pregnancy? Wow! I feel like we have entered into a new era. This is a whole paradigm shift. Now that he has said this […]