Anna Forbes
Anna Forbes is a writer, organizer and women's health activist who has been working fulltime in HIV/AIDS since 1985. She currently works as an independent consultant with an international client base and is specializing in advocacy to expand HIV prevention, particularly for those at highest risk of HIV.
From Tuskegee to Transparency: An Evolution in the Ethics and Accountability of Clinical Trials Involving Human Subjects
People who participate in clinical trials take the enormous step of volunteering to test a product that may be useful and, sometimes, life-saving if it turns out to be effective. They play an irreplaceable role in research to prevent, treat, and sometimes cure illness – as well as to find other ways to improve people’s health and lives.
A Pill to Prevent HIV? What the New iPrEx Results Mean for Women
by Anna Forbes
November 23, 2010 - 10:45am (Print)
Proof that PrEP works – that there is, literally, a pill can help to prevent HIV -- is an extraordinary breakthrough, as was the news received last summer that an effective vaginal microbicide had been identified. But what does a study focused on people engaging in rectal-penile sex have to do with women and their reproductive health? There are many ways to answer that question -- some of them cause for celebration and some reasons for real concern.
