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.@dcequalsv 9Women experiencing DV are at a higher risk for HIV because of limited ability to negotiate safe sex practices #WeAreAllWomen — NNEDV (@nnedv) November 4, 2014 http://www.ncadv.org/learn/DV%20and%20HIV%20AIDS.php 12% of HIV/AIDS infection among women in romantic relationships are due to intimate partner violence. (Sareen J., Pagura, B., Grant, B., Is Intimate Partner Violence Associated With…

12 famous scientists on the possibility of God
12 famous scientists on the possibility of God https://t.co/NHxMBPMP8j via @carolkuruvilla pic.twitter.com/nyb2ymAMk3 — HuffPost Religion (@HuffPostRelig) January 8, 2017 When President Barack Obama nominated the Christian geneticist Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health in 2009, some American scientists questioned whether someone who professed a strong belief in God was qualified to lead…
Bully victims more likely to suffer night terrors
Bully victims more likely to suffer night terrors and nightmares https://t.co/UpRu26GPHH — PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) October 23, 2015 “Consistent with previous studies, being a female, having persistent sleep problems, and emotional and behaviour problems in childhood additionally increased the risk for parasomnias at age 12 years.” Dr Lereya, from the Department of Psychology, added that stress…
Mosquito factory aims to wipe out disease
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/392388/chinas-mosquito-factory-aims-wipe-out-disease The scientists inject mosquito eggs with wolbachia bacteria in a laboratory, then release infected male mosquitoes on the island on the outskirts of the city of Guangzhou. The bacteria, which occurs naturally in about 28 percent of wild mosquitoes, causes infected males to sterilize the females they mate with. “The aim is trying to…

I’ll always have triggers,” Aglukark, 50, said in an interview
http://www.timescolonist.com/sexual-abuse-a-root-cause-of-indigenous-suicide-crisis-aglukark-1.9714575 It’s been 42 years since the acclaimed Inuk singer endured sexual abuse, including being photographed naked, as an eight-year-old girl living in remote Rankin Inlet — a trauma from which she now considers herself about 80 per cent healed. The rest, she knows, will never be completely gone. “I’ll always have triggers,” Aglukark, 50,…
Kofi Annan call for nations to decriminalize drug use
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/09/08/former-world-leaders-calls-for-nations-to-decriminalize-drug-use-and-experiment-with-legalization/ Drug use should be decriminalized and governments should experiment with drug legalization and regulation, a group of former world leaders argues in a new report published on Monday night. The recommendations from the Global Commission on Drug Policy reflect the views of the former leaders of some of the countries hardest hit by the…