MEDICAL RESEARCH

What About Syphilis?
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"A mysterious epidemic, hitherto unknown, which had struck terror into all hearts by the rapidity of its spread, the ravages it made, and the apparent helplessness of the physicians to cure it." This account could easily describe AIDS today. It refers instead to the sudden appearance of syphilis in the early sixteenth century. Significant parallels exist between the two diseases, ranging from issues of science and public health to civil liberties and social attitudes concerning sexually transmitted infection. Science writer Colman Jones uncovers what history can teach us about society's latest plague.

• Coleman Jones' own site:
  www.geocities.com/~colman/aidswork.html

The Effects of Oil on Condoms

• Dear Madam
  Maggie's Zine, Winter 1993/94.
• Mineral Oil Lubricants Cause Rapid Deterioration of Latex Condoms
  Contraception, January 1989, Vol. 39 No. 1

What About Nonoxynol-9?

• Nonoxynol-9: Better Safe Than Sorry?
  OUT Magazine, Feb/March 1994
• Studies reveal disadvantages of spermicide nonoxynol-9
  The Guardian, U.K., February 11, 1992
• Spermicide is linked to infections in women
  Associated Press, ?, 1992

Conference Abstracts

• XI International Conference on AIDS
  Vancouver, BC, July 7 - 12, 1996