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Under 20 and HIV-positive – 30 Apr 2008

Under 20 and HIV-positive – 30 Apr 2008

More young patients as total number of new cases hits 422. NINE youth — six of them males — between the ages of 10 and 19 were diagnosed as HIV positive last year, the most ever in a single year according to records dating back to 1985. There were just two such cases...
Under 20 and HIV-positive – 30 Apr 2008

Abstinence ‘not effective’ – 25 Apr 2008

$1.8b in funding but teen pregnancy, STD rates unchanged WASHINGTON— Programmes teaching schoolchildren in the United States to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually-transmitted diseases or delayed the age at which sex begins. Health groups told...
Amended ‘HIV’ Act passed – 23 Apr 2008

Amended ‘HIV’ Act passed – 23 Apr 2008

New onus on personal responsibility, power of containment for ministry TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg HIV took the top spot in the minds of MPs yesterday when Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan read the amended Infectious Diseases Bill, for the second time. Will an...
An Aids test? ‘It isn’t for me’ -18 Dec 2007

An Aids test? ‘It isn’t for me’ -18 Dec 2007

THE admission form looks the same — with the addition of a clause that could be crucial in the fight against Aids: “I do not want to be screened for HIV”. From yesterday, all adult inpatients at Changi General Hospital (CGH) had to sign against that statement if they...
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