HIV may seem like an old problem by now, but it’s still very much relevant.
Worldwide, 33.4 million people are living with HIV, including 2.1 children younger than 15. Even high-income countries like the US haven’t made much progress on reducing new cases of HIV.
For North American and Western and Central Europe, the number of new HIV infections for 2008 was 75,000, compared with 93,000 new cases in 2001. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the number of new HIV infections for 2008 was 1.9 million, compared with 2.3 million in 2001. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region most affected by HIV with …read more

Naturally produced by the cells lining the female reproductive organs, prostaglandins would usually help regulate cell growth.
However, the concentration of prostaglandin in seminal fluid is 1000 times higher than what is normally found in these cells.
A study from the Medical Research Council’s Human Reproductive Sciences Unit at The University of Edinburgh found that the high concentration of prostaglandin in semen worsens diseases of the female reproductive organs including uterine cancer.
Led by Dr. Henry Jabbour, University of Edinburgh Honorary Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, found that the prostaglandins in semen influence the progression of cervical and uterine cancers by enhancing tumor …read more