Give young people and gay men free condoms to reduce STIs, watchdog says

Draft guidance from Nice says councils should consider schemes to provide free advice and condoms to halt rise in HIV and gonorrhoea

Jack Urwin: ‘We don’t need to be the men our grandfathers were’

First book interview: The debut author’s study of ‘toxic masculinity’ was uncomfortable to write, but he says it’s fired with hope that clichéd male behaviour can be unlearned

‘Less sex? We just have less to prove’: millennials on sexual encounters

Are young people really less interested in sex, as a study suggests? Here, eight millennials share their views

Supermarket price promotions targeting less healthy food, survey finds

More than half of recent promotions at UK supermarkets offered deals on junk food, sweets and fizzy drinks

Should you say no to prosecco with your pancakes?

The unstoppable rise of bottomless brunches means you can now drink as much as you like over breakfast. But beware the overindulgence of a morning mimosa

The NHS must show it cares about gay men’s lives – and roll out PrEP HIV drugs

A landmark court ruling that NHS England can fund the highly effective preventive treatment should be urgently acted on to stop the spread of the disease

First doctor convicted of FGM death in Egypt only spent three months in jail

Sohair al-Bata’a, 13, died after undergoing female genital mutilation by Raslan Fadl, who avoided serving most of his sentence by reconciling with her family

Bilston’s revival: the pursuit of happiness in a Black Country town

In the 1940s, the West Midlands town of Bilston had been scarred by years of coal mining, with thousands of its houses uninhabitable – so it invited the philosopher Otto Neurath to become its ‘happiness consultant’. Did it work?

Sex education is the only way to combat the terrible toll of child abuse

In the post-Savile era ministers blocked the one step that can protect young people. Help me make PSHE – personal, social and health education – compulsory

RIP maintenance grants. It’s one more move to keep the poor from education

As a student from a low-income background, I relied on my grant. Now we risk becoming a country in which only the privileged can go to university