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US: Executive Order Addresses Religious Objections To Contraception

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After stating the Trump administration’s support for religious freedom, the EO addresses two substantive issues. The first such provision directs the Internal Revenue Service not to take adverse action against a religious organization that speaks about a moral or political issue from a religious perspective where similar speech has “not ordinarily been treated as participation or intervention in a political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) a candidate for political office.”

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South Africa: Centre for Human Rights hosts first consultative meeting to discuss Draft Model Law on the rights of intersex persons in Africa

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On 24 April 2017, the Centre for Human Rights hosted its first consultative meeting on the Model Law on the rights of intersex persons in Africa.

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Poland: Why Online Sex Education is Necessary in Poland Today

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Natalia Trybus is a sex educator and YouTuber. Her channel PinkCandy has over 50,000 subscribers. In her short films, she talks about female condoms, hymen types, masturbation, stand-to-pee devices and STDs. If not for her job at a Poznań sex shop, she would never have found the courage to start her YouTube channel on human sexuality.

US: Syphilis rates among MSM eclipse those of other populations

The rate of primary and secondary syphilis in the United States among men who have sex with men is 106 times that of men who have sex with women only, researchers said. 

The disparity is even greater — 167.5-fold — when men who have sex with men (MSM) are compared with women.

“These data highlight the disproportionate impact of syphilis among MSM and underscore the need for innovative and targeted syphilis prevention measures at the state and local level, especially among MSM,” Alex de Voux, PhD, an epidemic intelligence service officer at the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, and colleagues wrote in MMWR. Read more via Healio