Masimba Biriwasha, RH Reality Check, Africa & Asia on April 23, 2008 - 9:48am
To respond effectively to the epidemics of AIDS and TB around the world, a strategy for communicating messages that influence individual behavior change, community attitudes and socio-political dynamics is critical.
The current politicization of HIV prevention by the US Administration and its favored groups here at home and around the globe, remains the largest single threat to curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Marc-Andre LeBlanc, International Rectal Microbicide Advocates on March 17, 2008 - 9:43am
One of the dangerous silences of global HIV prevention efforts has been the neglect of anal intercourse between women and men as well as the HIV prevalence among gay men and other men who have sex with men in Asia, Africa and other parts of the developing world.
Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check on March 12, 2008 - 9:39am
Sen. David Vitter (D-LA), of DC Madame fame, will offer an amendment to PEPFAR to reinsert the abstinence-only earmark. What exactly does he know about either abstinence or being faithful?
Rupert Walder, RH Reality Check, Europe on March 12, 2008 - 9:36am
What do European AIDS advocates have to say about PEPFAR? "The ab-only earmarked funding in PEPFAR goes against modern principles of effective aid... ab-only approaches have no effect in the developing world where a significant percentage of sexual initiation among young girls is coerced or forced."
Last night, I spent the evening doing what every Washington ideologue who supports the "prostitution pledge" should be required to do--I walked through a community called Kafue, in Zambia.
Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check on March 7, 2008 - 9:36am
When it comes to PEPFAR, is Speaker Nancy Pelosi better for women and girls, or is President Bush's Global AIDS Coordinator, Dr. Mark Dybul? The Democratic Majority seems to be ignoring the pleas of public health experts.
Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow on March 6, 2008 - 9:07am
Iowa has become the seventeenth state to refuse Title V, Section 510 funding for abstinence-only sex education. Iowa currently receives roughly $319,000 in matching funds from the federal funding stream.
Masimba Biriwasha, RH Reality Check, Africa & Asia on March 3, 2008 - 1:14am
For both self-protection and for humanitarian reasons, Americans should be seriously concerned about the explosion of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, where the reality of sex workers and the Global Gag Rule are factors in the continuing spread of the disease.
The majority of women in prison are mothers of minor children, and women are the fastest-growing prison population in the country. We need to recognize and treat with compassion the humanity of these mothers.
Religious fundamentalists' fear isn't that feminism will lead all women to reject motherhood, but rather that in the capacity for choice, women challenge the notions that rationalize male domination embedded in traditional meanings of motherhood.
After more than a hundred years of legally allowing women access to a therapeutic abortion, in October 2006 the Nicaraguan National Assembly banned this procedure in all circumstances. Now women's health groups are working to mitigate the damage.
If we changed society's attitudes and policies around mothering and child care, we could give a gift not just to our own moms but to all mothers this Mother's Day.
In her new book, Opting In, feminist activist and author Amy Richards explores feminist mothering. Laura Barcella talked to her in San Francisco about her newest "baby."
Feel like you're not the man you thought you could be? Your local megachurch has a solution: every woman deprived of her reproductive rights, every gay person deprived of the right to marry suddenly makes you look manly by comparison.
In India, there are laws to prevent dowry, domestic violence, sexual harassment and child marriage. But in the country's social context, these laws aren't very effective.
Just thirty-five Senators in office are strongly pro-choice. But this November, when a third of the Senate seats will be up for grabs, voters have a chance to increase that score.
Legislation and advocacy work have often blurred or denied any difference between trafficking and sex work. That has always made things worse rather than better for those involved.
RH Reality Check celebrates our second anniversary with a new look and new features to make the reader experience better. Thanks for helping create this fast growing online community devoted to global understanding of sexual and reproductive health issues.
Recent studies have discovered a dramatic decline in breast cancer incidence resulting from a reduction in the use of hormone replacement therapy. It's good news -- except that it's not true for African-American women.
