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SUNDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- An older class of antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV can cause premature aging, a new study suggests.

LONDON (Reuters) - A class of generic AIDS drugs often used to treat HIV in Africa and other poor regions can cause premature aging and lead to age-related illnesses such as heart disease and dementia, scientists said on Sunday.

LONDON (Reuters) - A class of generic AIDS drugs often used to treat HIV in Africa and other poor regions can cause premature aging and lead to age-related illnesses such as heart disease and dementia, scientists said on Sunday.

Rights groups including Amnesty International on Friday urged Indonesia to revoke a regulation which they say legalises female circumcision in the mainly Muslim country.

THURSDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- A trial HIV testing program screened nearly 2.8 million Americans from 2007 to 2010 and identified 18,432 people infected with the AIDS-causing virus, federal health officials said Thursday.

Experts advocate intrauterine devices as most effective birth control.

An unlikely coalition of Jews and Muslims on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to block a San Francisco ballot measure that would ban the circumcision of male children, a procedure widely practiced by members of both faiths.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Homosexual men and trans-gender people should get equal access to HIV/AIDS programs under the World Health Organization's first guidelines aimed at ending stigma that denies quality care to many, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - IUDs and contraceptive skin implants are the most effective type of reversible contraceptive, and should be offered as options to most women seeking birth control, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).

MONDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- A female contraceptive device whose reported side effects kept it off the frontline of birth control for years has been formally endorsed for all healthy adult women and adolescents by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

THURSDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) -- The introduction of a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program in Australia led to a reduction in high-grade cervical abnormalities that are precursors to cervical cancer, a new study reports.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The rate of new HIV cases in gay and bisexual men may have dropped in California in the mid-2000's, suggests a new study published 30 years after the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS.

HONG KONG, Jun (Reuters) - A vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, triggered by the human papillomavirus (HPV), has helped reduce the number of teenage girls developing abnormalities in their cervix by as much as 50 percent in a study in Australia, researchers reported on Friday.

Denmark has registered a doubling of cases of the venereal disease chlamydia over the past decade, Danish health officials said Thursday, saying the rise was very worrying.

LONDON (Reuters) - Cheap, simple tests and treatments for syphilis in pregnancy could prevent more than half of newborn deaths and stillbirths related to the disease, which kills 500,000 a year in Africa, a new study has found.

A new study hailing from Sweden states there is no connection between the use of birth control pills and any extra padding around your hips.

A new condom home delivery service in India and the production of billions of extra contraceptives around the world highlight the breakthrough of condoms in helping put a brake on the AIDS pandemic, experts said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc, the leading maker of HIV drugs, said it received a subpoena for documents related to its manufacture, quality and distribution practices.

President Clinton joined U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan at the United Nations today to launch a global plan that aims to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015. "Countdown to Zero," as the plan is called, will focus on 22 countries with the highest numbers of pregnant …

South Africa's programme to prevent HIV in babies has achieved a 96.5 percent success rate in wiping out transmission from infected pregnant mothers, the Medical Research Council said Thursday.

South Africa's programme to prevent HIV in babies has achieved a 96.5 percent success rate in wiping out transmission from infected pregnant mothers, the Medical Research Council said Thursday.

Erectile dysfunction drugs are expensive, the market is saturated and some men say they didn't make their relationships any better.

Erectile dysfunction drugs are expensive, the market is saturated and some men say they didn't make their relationships any better.