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Treatment will extend the lives of those currently infected, but we can also take active steps to prevent new infections from occurring in the first place. A comprehensive effort towards prevention requires a multifaceted approach.While education about condom use and behavioral change can help to reduce sexual transmission, and needle exchange programs have been proven to reduce infection rates among intravenous drug users, alone these programs are not sufficient. Expanded access to treatment is itself a prevention strategy with barely realized potential; in poor countries where patients are now treated with anti-retroviral drugs, public discourse about HIV/AIDS as well...
...much for the College’s ongoing efforts to ensure our mental and physical well-being. Kim Airs, sex boutique owner and speaker at the Radcliffe Union of Students’ recent orgasm seminar, suggested two weeks ago that Harvard may be supplying students with condoms of dubious durability, The Crimson reported. Her claim: Lifestyles condoms barely meet federal safety guidelines. Is that true? University Health Services says no, but when it comes to such matters, better to trust no one. Armed with a physics concentrator’s toolbox, a faucet, a few free-weights, and a gang...
...sexuality boutique “The Grand Opening,” caused more than the usual stimulation at last week’s Female Orgasm Seminar, hosted by the Radcliffe Union of Students. Digressing from the usual advice about the female orgasm, Airs warned students against LifeStyles brand condoms, claiming that they hardly met federal safety regulations. The purpose of the seminar was, ostensibly, to educate interested students about sexuality. Instead, it turned into an opportunity for Airs to provide arbitrary and misinformed judgment about an effective condom brand that is widely distributed at Harvard. Airs’ contention that...
Students seeking safe sex may have come upon a new kind of barrier, in light of concern about the reliability of Harvard’s free Lifestyles condoms. But according to representatives the Community Health Initiative (CHI), a student-staffed arm of University Health Services (UHS) that provides the free condoms, there is no reason to stop using them. At the Female Orgasm Seminar that the Radcliffe Union of Students hosted last week, speaker Kim Airs, owner of the sexuality boutique “The Grand Opening,” warned against the use of Lifestyles condoms, saying that they...
...Kristin E. Wheatley ’06, who helped organize the event. “But everyone gets something out of it, information-wise.” But information wasn’t the only thing students left the seminar with. Event staff members handed out hundreds of free condoms, dental dams, and packets of lubrication. At the end of the night, Airs gave out prizes, including vibrators, books of erotica, and a rubber duck. Students bombarded Airs with questions throughout the presentation, touching on topics ranging from how to achieve multiple orgasms to why she didn?...