According to global health experts, millions of newborns babies' lives could be saved if simple, cheap tests for syphilis were offered and performed on women in poorer countries.

As the incidences of those with the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia soar, men are being encouraged to get tested.

Gonorrhoea has largely been treated by antibiotics, but doctors in the UK are being told that the sexually transmitted infection, caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, is gaining a resistance to antibiotics.

UN Agency Welcomes Data Showing Male Circumcision Can Help Prevent HIV in Men

New York – The United Nations agency at the forefront of the global AIDS response has strongly welcomed new data that provides further evidence that male circumcision is effective in preventing HIV in men.