Challenges is the e-newsletter produced by the Durex Network to explore developments in the global sexual health arena. We have created this newsletter because we believe the promotion of responsible sexual health should be high on the agenda at an international level and, by working with key decision-makers, we intend to stimulate debate, discussion and information exchange as well as the development of new programmes. Through this newsletter, we aim to provide a source of valuable information, providing research, analysis and opinion which, we hope you find useful and informative. Please do not hesitate to share it.
Durex Network Challenges Spring 2009In 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. |
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Durex Network Challenges Winter 2009Key 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. |
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Durex Network Challenges Autumn 2008In 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. |
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Durex Network Challenges Summer 2008This 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. |
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Durex Network Challenges Spring 2008This 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. |
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Durex Network Challenges Winter 2008Key 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. |
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Durex Network Challenges Autumn 2007Key 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. |
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Durex Network Challenges Summer 2007Key topics for this issue include the second Face of Global Sex report, public-private partnerships for sexual health and the feminisation of HIV/AIDS. |