Tag: Sexual Conditions

  • Good news: Deaths due to HIV are way down

    Good news: Deaths due to HIV are way down

    World news this month appropriately focuses on containing the COVID-19 pandemic, as the first vaccines become available. Yet we can also celebrate major success in the fight against a different global viral scourge: HIV. During my medical training in the 1980s, hospital wards were often filled with people dying of HIV. Since then, antiviral treatments…

  • More sexual partners, more cancer?

    More sexual partners, more cancer?

    Two headlines caught my eye recently: The relationship between chronic diseases and number of sexual partners: an exploratory analysis and Study warns more sex might mean higher likelihood for cancer It may be hard to believe, but both of these refer to same medical research. Iā€™m not sure which one I like better. The first…