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AFP: Woman burnt alive in PNG in possible witchcraft case: reports
A young woman was stripped naked and burnt alive at the stake in
SOUTH AFRICA: Gay, HIV-Positive Man Named to South Africa's High Court
South African President Kgalema Motlanthe named a gay, HIV- positive jurist to the country's highest court on New Year's Eve, The Star newspaper reported.
SENEGAL: 9 Men Jailed in Senegal for Homosexual Acts
Senegal late Tuesday sentenced nine men, most belonging to an association set up to provide HIV/AIDS prevention services to gay men, to eight years for "unnatural acts" and criminal conspiracy, the men's attorney said today.
UNITED STATES: FDA Approves New HIV Blood Test from Roche
On Dec. 29, federal regulators announced they have approved a Roche human plasma test for HIV, including HIV-2 and HIV-1 Group O strains.
NEW YORK: Church Youths Fight HIV with Tech Talk
Zion'z Youth Group, sponsored by the Walls Temple AME Zion Church in Albany, provides area teens a safe place to discuss topics like abstinence, safe sex, body image, and peer pressure.
KANSAS: School Abstinence Program Loses Funding
This fall, the Wyandotte County-based Haven Center Inc.
CALIFORNIA: TB Cases Linked to Castro Bars
Public health officials have traced several cases of tuberculosis to bars in the predominantly gay Castro neighborhood, prompting them to ask 140 area employees to be screened for the disease.
UNITED STATES: Health Care Seeking and Sexual Behavior Among Patients with Symptomatic Newly Acquired Genital Herpes
The researchers wrote that symptoms among patients with first episode herpes simplex virus (HSV) likely influence their health-seeking and sexual behaviors.
MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; PALAU: US to Vaccinate Pacific Girls Against Cervical Cancer
The United States is embarking on a $9 million campaign to vaccinate girls against cervical cancer in the
UNITED STATES: Shaping Good Health as Teens Outgrow Pediatrician
A new report by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine calls for broad improvements in the way the US health care system treats teenagers and pre-teens.
UNITED STATES: Teen Birth Rates on the Rise
Births to US teenagers were up sharply in 2006, ending a 14- year period of decline, CDC's National Center for Health Statistics reported Tuesday.

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