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  • New Advocacy Group Wants to Improve Feasibility of PrEP for U.S. Women

    Following disappointing results from the VOICE trial released at the recent 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta, a new U.S. Women and PrEP Working Group has called on the federal government to help American women use antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) safely and effectively. But the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) responded by urging the Food and Drug Administration to rescind its approval of Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) for HIV prevention.

    3 hours ago | HIVandHepatitis.com

  • Media mis-reporting HIV rate among SA schoolgirls - true rate is 12.7 percent

    The claim that 28 percent of South African schoolgirls are living with HIV started with a remark by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, misreported by The Sowetan. Unquestioned, it has been repeated by media across the country and the world. The true rate is half that.

    9 hours ago | Africa Check

  • U.N. body agrees on women's rights policy, skirting sexual politics

    A U.N. policy-making body agreed upon a declaration Friday urging an end to violence against women and girls despite concerns from conservative Muslim countries and the Vatican about references to women's sexual and reproductive rights.

    17 March 2013 | Reuters

  • South Africa: '28% of schoolgirls are HIV positive'

    AT LEAST 28% of schoolgirls are HIV positive while only 4% of young boys are infected with the virus in the country. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said this was a clear indication that old men were sleeping with young girls - a statistic he said "destroyed my soul".

    15 March 2013 | The Sowetan

  • Sex work, violence and HIV: experience from rural Karnataka

    Working with women in sex work for the last 10 years in rural South India has taught me that it is not HIV that is a priority in their lives but issues like violence, stigma and discrimination and uncertainties related to their children’s future. We organised a participatory workshop with sex workers to understand the extent of violence in these intimate relationships, including causes of violence.

    14 March 2013 | Open Democracy

  • NEW YORK: 30% of N.Y. HIV Women Get 'Late' Diagnosis

    New York state health officials say that approximately 30 percent of the state’s women who are newly diagnosed with HIV receive an AIDS diagnosis at the same time or soon after their initial diagnosis.

    13 March 2013 | CDC National Prevention Information Network

  • Mitchell Warren: Listening to Women's Voices on HIV Prevention

    The VOICE trial results show that we still have a lot to learn about what women really want and need in HIV prevention. The women in the trial are telling us something that is true for every group at risk for HIV: to help more people avoid infection, we need to offer prevention tools they will actually want, demand and use.

    12 March 2013 | Huffington Post

  • HIV and women over 50: 'I've had to make this journey almost entirely alone'

    Anna's story – that of an older, heterosexual British woman who has contracted HIV – is unusual, but she is certainly not alone.

    12 March 2013 | The Guardian

  • In the Arab world, women aren't supposed to talk about sex - let alone enjoy it. But that might be changing.

    Politics, religion and sex are the three “red lines” of the Arab world: subjects you’re not supposed to tackle in word or deed. But just as people in countries across the region are busy contesting received wisdoms in politics, and are starting to challenge of the role of religion in public policy, I hope they will start asking them same hard questions of sexual life.

    11 March 2013 | The Independent

  • UN must not backtrack on women's reproductive rights

    Head of UN development programme sounds warning as Malta, Russia and Vatican try to remove references to sexual and reproductive rights.

    08 March 2013 | The Guardian
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