Moreover, if the infected individual is a she, rather than a he, the drugs have a tendency to accumulate in the tissue of the vagina.
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Wolf has some other concerns about the antimicrobial products in some of these products because they can also disrupt the normal, helpful bacteria of the vagina.
"She was very bold, " said Ensler, who at Merlet's insistence brought her play "The Vagina Monologues" to Haiti and helped establish safe houses for women in Port-au-Prince and Cap Haitien.
Most current STD check-ups for women involve taking a swab from high inside the vagina, which is not only an unpleasant experience for the patient, but an unreliable method of testing.
But Dr Rosenberg believes that at least some of the substances being considered as microbicides could be packaged into slow-release rings that a woman could wear in her vagina for a month or more.
The new definition removes the reference to females and says rape is "the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object" without the consent of the victim.
Last week Sharon and her eldest daughter Aimee, who did not appear in the TV series, pulled out of a six-week run of stage show The Vagina Monologues so Aimee could be treated for breast cancer.
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The findings, reported in papers published by Nature and the Public Library of Science, were based on samples from 242 healthy volunteers in the U.S., from such sites as the mouth, nose, skin, intestine and vagina.
For more than half a century it was common for doctors to carry out reversal operations, either through castration or constructing a new vagina, on babies whose genitals were seen as either too big or too small.
" Ensler, who has worked for nearly 20 years to empower women and undo the shame many of us are taught to feel toward our bodies, didn't just see a group of mostly male legislators freaking out about "vagina.
Dr Sally Hope, a GP in Oxford and chair of the primary care gynaecology group, said that women with infections such as thrush were already recommended by doctors to eat yoghurt containing live bacteria, and in some cases to insert yoghurt into the vagina.
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