Sexual Health News Headlines

Planned Parenthood has had programs for years aimed at adolescents and young adults about sexually transmitted diseases. Now the organization wants to bring the same messages to a much older generation.

LONDON - Women and girls as young as 13 in Wales can get the morning-after pill free without a prescription from pharmacies, beginning Friday.

Just when you thought award season was finally wrapping up, there's still a few red carpets to get through. One of them is that little production called the Acadamy Awards, and this year, two films up for nomination in the Animated Short Category are premiering in Alberta through this year's Reel Fun Film Festival.

Civil liberties advocates are calling on BC Ferries to reverse its decision to block internet access to sites that offer abortion and sex education information.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's edict that all city departments cut their 2011 budgets by five per cent doesn't appear to be working.

About 2.5 per cent of men frequenting gay bars in Vancouver are HIV positive but unaware of that fact, a new survey suggests.

A sexual health educator in Cape Breton says junior high students are sending sexually suggestive text messages and pictures of themselves without thinking about where the images may go.

Carleton University presents key figures in the recent landmark ruling on prostitution as a part of a panel discussion about a recent Superior Court decision that struck down three key sections on the Criminal Code on prostitution.

Junior high students in Cape Breton have more sex than their peers across Nova Scotia, according to a report by a Dalhousie University professor.

The legal age of sexual consent, raised to 16 from 14 in 2008, is not safeguarding younger teens, according to a study released yesterday by the University of B.C. and Simon Fraser University.The age was raised to protect teens against sexual exploitation by adults and to prevent poor sexual health decisions. However, study …

Raising the legal age of sexual consent was meant to prevent sexual exploitation of the most vulnerable, but B.C. researchers say that may not be the case.

The case of an infant pulled from a Calgary dumpster after being born to a woman who didn't know she was pregnant points to the need for better sex education, according to one expert.

The P.E.I. Department of Health is moving forward with plans to expand its needle exchange program to Montague.

Pope Benedict XVI urged the U.K. to guard against "aggressive forms of secularism," as he spoke to an audience of 60,000 at an open-air mass in Glasgow.