Only a couple weeks until World AIDS Day, and with that comes increased media attention around sexual health.
One article from the New York Times. (If the link doesn't work, search for "Bringing Sexy Back — To Fight H.I.V." for 15 Nov 2022)
Research shows that when safe sex campaigns acknowledge pleasure — by talking about sex as something that makes life good, or showing how condoms can be erotic — more people use a condom the next time they have sex.That is what the World Health Organization and a small nongovernmental organization called the Pleasure Project found when they reviewed the results of safer-sex trials and experiments over the past 15 years.
Ms. Philpott has a theory. “People who work in sexual health often come from a biomedical background, and they focus on death, danger and disease,” she said. “They’re not encouraged to think of themselves as sexual beings.”
The fact that most sexual and reproductive health programs are delivered by big aid agencies doesn’t help, she added. “There’s an international development narrative that historically comes from a very sex-negative place or a Christian colonial perspective aimed at saving the ‘poor unfortunates.’”
2) How valid is Philpott's theory? How should public health practitioners approach intervention development to avoid these issue?And another from The Guardian, though I can't come up with many questions for this article, as it seems to be a miscellaneous collection of statistics.
It highlights that the number of STIs recorded among over-65s increased from 2,280 in 2017 to 2,748 in 2019 – a 20% rise.
2) The implication of this sentence is that the observed increase in reported STI diagnoses reflects an actual increase in STI cases. What are some plausible, alternative explanations for the observed increase?