Unique Swedish study tests drugs to prevent child sex abuse

Christoffer Rahm (right) is the psychiatrist and lead researcher for the ground-breaking trial at Stockholm's Karolinska InstituteAnders, who agreed to be interviewed using a pseudonym, says he has never abused children but sought help because he knew his sexual fantasies were "not normal". At Stockholm&;s Karolinska Institute, patients like Anders who have sought help for paedophile fantasies, but have not acted on them, are being given a drug normally used to treat advanced prostate cancer to determine if it reduces the risk of them sexually abusing a child. "The goal is to establish a preventive treatment programme for men with paedophiliac disorder that is both effective and tolerable so that we can prevent child sexual abuse from happening in the first place," psychiatrist and lead researcher Christoffer Rahm told AFP.

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Fight against AIDS threatened by lack of money, leadership, UN head says

HIV self tests are displayed in a pharmacy in BordeauxBy Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Global progress fighting AIDS could be lost because prevention programmes are suffering from a lack of leadership, accountability and funding, the head of the United Nations warned on Friday. Headway in tackling the epidemic has been "inspiring," with a 42 percent decline in AIDS-related deaths since a peak in 2004, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report. A commitment to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 was included in the Sustainable Development Goals, an ambitious plan to end poverty and inequality which was adopted by U.N. member states in September.

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