HIV & STD Prevention

Every year during Valentine's Day week, organizations across the country from Planned Parenthood to Advocates for Youth celebrate National Condom Week. This week long event got it's start at the University of California, Berkley in the 1970's and has now expanded nationwide to promote safer sex. Why promote safer sex? Well, as Emma McGowan wrote in her latest article for...

What's your status? HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is the world's deadliest infectious disease. By killing or damaging cells of the body's immune system, HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers. According to AIDS.gov, HIV can be transmitted through certain bodily fluids: blood, semen (cum), pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum), rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, and breast milk. If you have...