Nadine Dorries: Teenage girls should be taught how to say no to sex

MPs narrowly pass first reading of Nadine Dorries' bill to start classes in abstinence for girls aged 13 to 16

Hope and ambition at the school for teenage mothers

When a 15-year-old has a baby, it doesn't have to mean the end of her education and her hopes of a career. Amelia Hill visits the school that treats motherhood as an opportunity

The midwife on a mission to stop female genital mutilation

After Cath Holland witnessed the effects of the operation she set out to persuade an entire Kenyan province to renounce it

Sex trafficking charity loses out to Salvation Army over £6m contract

Eaves Housing accuses ministers of 'ideological decision' that 'will reduce funding by 60% per victim'

Trust gay blood donors to tell the truth about safe sex

Patrick Strudwick: The government's words on gay equality ring hollow when you look at the detail of the blood donor plans

US Republicans move to block abortion services in poor countries

Sarah Boseley: Republicans want US funding cut from family planning organisations that promote abortion

NHS reforms: Mutuals will give staff ‘right to provide’

Move to establish social enterprises which could be contracted to provide care likely to be seen as step towards privatisation

HIV tests to be offered in high-prevalence areas

London, Birmingham and Manchester among cities covered by policy to reduce stigma and spread of disease

Scientist urges human papilloma virus jabs for boys to stem oral cancer rise

HPV, usually associated with cervical cancer, linked to throat and mouth tumours

It is vital these difficult cases are heard in public

Deborah Orr: Should a young woman be sterilised? Should a sex ban be imposed on a man in his 40s? Hearings involving vulnerable people need close monitoring

Doctors demand schoolgirls be vaccinated against genital warts

Second vaccine 'should be added to cervical cancer programme' for teenagers

The Joy of Teen Sex has a sheen of fakery

Reni Eddo-Lodge: With its emphasis on technique and products, Channel 4's series has the potential to damage the progress of sex education

Channel 4’s The Joy of Teen Sex fails to satisfy health professionals

Programme puts viewing figures above educational value, say signatories of letter to broadcaster. By Carrie Dunn

Jonathan Grimshaw: ‘I tested HIV positive in 1984’

Jonathan Grimshaw was one of the first men to be infected by HIV in Britain. He talks to Simon Garfield about survival and the illness that has become his life's work

South Africa teaching unions criticise HIV testing in schools

Plan to test children as young as 13 condemned amid concerns about psychological impact of a positive result