Challenges Issue 2, 2011

Challenges Issue 1 2011

Challenges - Issue 4, 2010 final

Durex Network Challenges Issue 2 2010

With the 2010 World Cup now only weeks away, the latest issue of Challenges highlights how young people’s enthusiasm for football is being channelled to help raise awareness of HIV. Kirk Freidrich, co-founder of the Grassroot Soccer initiative, talks to Challenges about the programme’s aims and the methods it employs to provide young people with a specially tailored interactive prevention and life skills curriculum. We also put the spotlight on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa, looking back to its beginnings in the 1980s and its escalation to the present day with some 5.7 million South Africans now living with HIV. HIV/AIDS and other STI prevention policies in the United States during the Bush era put great emphasis on abstinence-only sex education programmes. We reflect on the reasons why the new Obama administration is taking a fresh approach to sex education. And we look at programmes to eradicate chlamydia. In view of the high prevalence of re-infection, is it time for a rethink?

Durex Network Challenges Issue 1 2010

In this issue of Challenges, we look back at the encouraging HIV figures released by UNAIDS on World AIDS Day 2009, and highlight the ever present need for better tailored prevention and care efforts. Franck DeRose, Executive Director of The Condom Project, tells us more about the crucial work his organisation has been doing to combat stigma with Condom Art Pins. We reflect on the much awaited announcement of the creation of a UN super agency dedicated to women – some 15 years after countries were urged to ensure gender equality through education, safety and health. We take a look at an increasingly popular new US trend in STI prevention, which seeks to reach young people via online social networking sites. And we review the announcement of the Advance Family Planning initiative; a new study on the daunting parental “sex talk”; and the shifting patterns in reproductive health supply preferences among British women.

Durex Network Challenges Issue 4 2009

In this edition, we reflect on the impact overall wellbeing has over sexual risk taking among young people. Challenges talks to Professor Freya Sonenstein of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health about her research on the sexual health of young men. We review the response to the recent announcement on UNESCO’s soon to be released international sex education guidelines. We discuss intimate partner violence around the world. And we take a look at the challenges of populations changes across the globe, from baby boom to ageing population.

Durex Network Challenges Issue 3 2009

Among topics discussed in this latest edition are the results of a survey which reveals young people in Eastern Europe feel the younger they are when they receive sex education, the less likely it is they feel the need for more at later stages. We also talk with Dr Alice Welbourn who is ardently campaigning for the empowerment of women with HIV in a world which appears to be turning away from them. Continuing with the gender theme, the Global Business Coalition devotes a session to gender equity and the need to invest in girls and young women. As the media spotlight falls onto other subjects, we ask if the right messages about HIV/AIDS are still hitting home and delivering the information they should. And we discuss whether social marketing is a useful tool in the fight to improve sexual health around the world.

Durex Network Challenges Issue 2 2009

In this issue of Challenges, we discuss the challenges of safer sex for sex workers and their clients. Susan Quilliam, sexologist, relationships psychologist and author of the internationally acclaimed New Joy of Sex, talks to us about the importance of positivity in sex education. We also look at global youth HIV charity dance4life’s brand new image, at the latest UK teenage pregnancy statistics and at the benefits and pitfalls of widespread HPV vaccination campaigns. And in these economically challenging times, we ask whether there should be a prioritisation amongst sexual health issues or whether integration is the way forward.

Durex Network Challenges Winter 2009

Key topics for this issue of Challenges include Michel Sidibé's nomination as the new executive director of UNAIDS; Obama's global sexual health plans; World Aids day - past, present and future; how gender can influence decisions on condom use and whether circumcision really is the panacea of HIV prevention it has been described as.

Durex Network Challenges Issue 4 2008

In this edition of Challenges, we look at how evidence can influence policy making and programme design in public health. Comprehensive condom programming is put to the test in Zimbabwe and sex education programmes designed to help parents talk to their children are reviewed. We also explore new trends in the HIV/AIDS pandemic and focus on the effects of broadcast media on sexual health.

Durex Network Challenges Summer 2008

This issue of Challenges looks at a new study that explores the role sex education plays in helping people make informed choices about their sexual health, the social drivers affecting changes to age-of-consent laws, and opinions on how worldwide HIV funding is being spent. And as the US presidential race hots up, we ask whether the world’s most influential superpower is likely to change its policy on HIV/AIDS prevention.

Durex Network Challenges Spring 2008

This is a special issue on sex education worldwide. Key topics include sex education and teenage pregnancy, the role of businesses in sex education and sex education and HIV/AIDS stigma.

Durex Network Challenges Winter 2008

Key topics in this issue include a focus on the sexual health advice training needs of UK nurses, the uses of technology to communicate the safer sex message and how performing arts can help in reaching wider audiences on sexual health.

Durex Network Challenges Autumn 2007

Key topics for this issue include the sexual health of construction workers, sex education in the Far East and HIV and Malaria coinfection. Also, Dance4Life's new Managing Director outlines her vision for the future of the charity.

Durex Network Challenges Summer 2007

Key topics for this issue include the second Face of Global Sex report, public-private partnerships for sexual health and the feminisation of HIV/AIDS.