A website has been helping people with sexually-transmitted diseases conveniently and anonymously notify by e-mail sexual partners whom they may have inadvertently infected. InSpot has been used by some 30,000 people since it was launched in San Francisco in 2004 making it an innovative and effective communication channel among sex partners, according to a report published in the October issue of PLoS Medicine.

In an effort to highlight the ease in which drugs are available on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside streets, radio station DJs played a prank, sending someone out to buy find and buy heroin, all while wearing a beaver costume--and it didn't take the DJ long to find it. On June 4, CFOX-FM sent a DJ that goes by the on-air name, Captain Scotty, to a street that is notorious for drug deals. Dressed as a beaver and carrying a sign that said he was looking to buy heroin, the DJ was reportedly able to purchase the drugs in a matter of minutes.

In an attempt to raise awareness for HIV, homelessness, and in support for the medical use of marijuana, a man has been traveling across the United States on his bike, all the while pedaling backwards. Starting last August in California, 36-year old cyclist Curan Wright has been cycling backwards through different states, with his navigation based solely on his peripheral vision.

Nepalese women have been telling their husbands working overseas to abstain from sex with other women so they will not contract sexually transmitted diseases. However, in case their husbands cannot control their sexual urges, women in Pang village in the Midwestern mountains of Nepal, have been sending their partners with condoms via mail. Their motto was, if you can't control it, at least be safe.

A local court in India has granted an application of a husband for divorce based on the ground that his wife is HIV positive. The judgment was handed down district judge Rajnish Bhatnagar, who said marriage without sex is "anathema. " He said in his judgment, "The disease being sexually communicable, the petitioner cannot be reasonably expected to live with her and lead a happy married life. "