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Dutch museum rolls out 200-year-old condom
AFP, Published on 04/06/2025
» THE HAGUE - The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on Tuesday placed on display a rare condom from around 1830, featuring an erotic print of a nun and three clergymen in provocative poses.
Simple measures can prevent a million baby deaths a year: study
AFP, Published on 09/05/2023
» PARIS - Providing simple and cheap healthcare measures to pregnant women -- such as offering aspirin -- could prevent more than a million babies from being stillborn or dying as newborns in developing countries every year, new research said on Tuesday.
The American South: A weak link in the Covid vaccination campaign
AFP, Published on 05/07/2021
» BIRMINGHAM (UNITED STATES) - With a sizable Black minority traditionally mistrustful of vaccines and with many conservative rural whites convinced that the vaccine is more dangerous than Covid-19 itself, Southern US states like Alabama have some of the country's lowest vaccination rates, leaving the disadvantaged region vulnerable to dangerous new virus variants.
A dark past clouds Covid vaccine for African Americans
AFP, Published on 15/02/2021
» WASHINGTON: Gary Jackson doesn't want the Covid vaccine even though the virus kills Black people at a starkly higher rate -- a daunting problem experts say the United States must confront in controlling its disastrous outbreak.
It wasn't the sex: bloodletting fatal for Raphael, study claims
AFP, Published on 18/07/2020
» ROME - A feverish Raphael suffering from "a coronavirus-like disease" died after failing to tell his doctors he had been secretly visiting lovers on freezing cold nights, leading them to wrongly prescribe bloodletting, a new study claims.
Coronavirus lockdowns could spark rise in HIV infections, experts warn
AFP, Published on 12/05/2020
» WASHINGTON: If lockdowns and stay-at-home orders are succeeding in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, health experts warn that the measures could unintentionally undermine efforts to contain another potentially deadly disease: HIV.