Word: condom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devote a great deal of time to the "choice" that usually landed the woman in the middle of this circus, that being the choice to have sex. While there are cases of rape and incest, most abortions take place because someone neglected to take a pill or use a condom...
...turning unprotected tricks. Naively, the Poles -- laid off from regular jobs and trying to support families -- hope to cash in quickly and return home in a few months. Raised as Catholics, "their AIDS awareness is nil," says social worker Wiltrud Schenk. "They get embarrassed if you mention the word condom." In Bombay farmers migrate to town off-season for construction jobs. They visit the brothels -- where a third of the prostitutes are HIV-positive -- and later infect their wives. The virus is sweeping the subcontinent: from half a dozen HIV-positive cases in 1986 to a million today...
...virus which causes AIDS, is primarily transmitted though vaginal or anal intercourse without a condom or through sharing intravenous needles with an infected person. It may also be passed from mother to baby during pregnancy or labor, and possibly through breast feeding. The remaining routes of transmission (blood transfusion, oral sex, organ transplant, etc.) present only extremely minor risks (on the order of one in hundreds of thousands). There is an insufficient amount of the virus in saliva and even an "open" blister to present a danger of transmission. Compared to other viruses, HIV survives only a very short time...
...jury in Austin, Texas, convicted rapist Joel Valdez, who claimed his victim had consented to "making love" because she asked him to put on a condom. The woman said her request was driven by a fear of AIDS. Valdez was sentenced to 40 years...
...discussed," explains Peter Karlberg of Sweden's Ministry of Education. Courses that cover geography, history or politics tackle ethics and gender roles. In Finnish schools, all 15-year-olds receive an introductory sexual package put together by the Population and Family Welfare Federation. Its contents: an information brochure, a condom and a cartoon love story...