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  • Chinese Women With HIV Suffer Harassment and Stigma

    Human rights and press freedom are crucial if China is to achieve its stated AIDS prevention goals, particularly when it comes to safeguarding women and children, a leading AIDS specialist has said.

    08 May 2013 | Radio Free Asia

  • Let's be more open about the joy of sex

    The discussion around the new sustainable development goals – replacing the millennium development goals – are forcing us to re-examine the issue of sexual health and rights as the key to alleviating poverty and empowering women. There is growing evidence that promoting pleasure alongside safer sex messaging can increase the consistent use of condoms and other forms of safer sex.

    29 April 2013 | The Guardian

  • Tyler Perry’s ‘Temptation’ Shamefully Stigmatizes People With HIV

    Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, which was the #3 grossing movie last week, presents HIV not only as if it’s some kind of karmic punishment for female sexual misbehavior, but also as if having the virus makes a woman permanently unlovable and asexual.

    22 April 2013 | RH Reality Check

  • Fights against AIDS, sex traffic collide at high court

    Two worthy goals come into conflict on Monday at the Supreme Court: preventing the global spread of HIV/AIDS and discouraging the sex trafficking of women and girls.

    22 April 2013 | USA Today

  • HPV Vaccine Showing Successes in Australia

    The US government’s goal of vaccinating young girls against the human papillomavirus has been disappointing, with less than a third of teenagers having completed a full course of HPV vaccine. But now the United States can look to Australia, which six years into a successful nationwide HPV vaccination campaign has experienced a sharp decline in the number of new cases of genital warts among young men and women.

    19 April 2013 | New York Times

  • Canada: New studies demonstrate inequalities in HIV care for women

    Barriers undermining women’s access to HIV treatment and care must be addressed in order to reduce morbidity and mortality among HIV-positive women, and to reduce HIV transmission, according to two new studies from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE).

    15 April 2013 | BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS press release

  • UNAIDS Executive Director calls on Côte d'Ivoire to redouble HIV response efforts

    During a meeting with Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan, Mr Sidibé pointed out that half of all women living with HIV in Côte d'Ivoire have no access to HIV treatment and stressed the need for the government to do more to stop new HIV infections in children.

    28 March 2013 | UNAIDS

  • Study: In Malawi lifelong antiretroviral treatment for expectant moms “translates into saving more than 250,000 maternal life years”

    A cost-effectiveness analysis of Option B+ in Malawi.

    27 March 2013 | Science Speaks

  • Lawyer fights 'widow sex' tradition in Malawi

    Lawyer and human rights activist Seodi White has long been an outspoken campaigner for gender justice in Malawi, a country where half its women are married before the age of 18. The prominent activist is targeting cultural practices that harm older, vulnerable women in Malawi.

    22 March 2013 | CNN

  • 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.

    21 March 2013 | HIVandHepatitis.com
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