Parents want doctors to discuss sex, drugs and diet with children.

On the top of a wish list that parents want health caregivers to talk over with children during routine checkups are diet and nutrition, and exercise and sports, according to a report released Monday by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

t's Carnival or Mardi Gras time again and the Brazilian government is busy handing out condoms to revelers to promote safe sex and most of all to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS.

The Brazilian health ministry targets to distribute 19.5 million condoms all over the country during the five-day carnival, this is almost double the number of condoms distributed last year. And they have condoms in good supply, since the Brazilian government purchased one billion condoms last year

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a ruling that mandates manufacturers of some contraceptive gels, films, foams, to carry a warning that the products do not protect against infection from HIV/AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires the warning on OTC (over-the-counter) stand-alone vaginal contraceptive and spermicidal products containing the chemical ingredient nonoxynol 9 (N9), utilized in several stand-alone spermicides

A new HIV/AIDS prevention campaign to be launched early 2008 will likely generate another controversy in the largely Catholic country, Brazil. A joint Health and Education Ministries program will result in the installation of condom dispensing machines in 100 public schools.

To push for youth participation in the program, the two government agencies and the United Nations sponsored a nationwide contest for students to design the condom dispenser. Three finalists were selected on Friday

Sex-related diseases affected British youth ages 16-24 the most in 2006, the Health Agency (HPA) said, warning of a continuing epidemic of HIV and sexually transmitted infections in gay men.

In 2006, over 370,000 new sexually transmitted infections were diagnosed - up 2.2 percent on 2005, the HPA said Friday