Today is an important day for women around the world. It is a day to celebrate all of the progress that has been made in the terrain of women's issues while also being a day of reflection of what more needs to be done. Today I highlight two organi...
Read MoreWill This Be the AIDS Free Generation?: World AIDS DAY 2011
Every December 1st the world is asked to stop, think and remember those we have lost to the AIDS pandemic. While the battle of prevention and treatment goes on every day, today's events around the world signify our continued commitment to educatio...
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Anti-retorviral Drugs Help Reduce HIV Transmission by 96%
The United States National Institutes of Health has conducted a study since 2005 at over 13 sites across across Africa, Asia and the America with a sample of 1,763 couples in which one partner was infected by HIV. "HIV-positive patients were split...
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San Francisco Trying to Make Circumcision Illegal
Circumcision or the removal of the foreskin of the penis has been practiced for over 2,500 years and currently is tied to rites of several religious traditions. "Circumcision is now the most common surgery performed on males in the United States. ...
Read MoreBotswana Battles One of the Highest Rates of Cervical Cancer
No one talks about cancer in Africa...does it not exist or has the data not been collected? Years ago one of the biggest killers in Botswana was HIV/AIDS, but in 1991 the government made anti-retroviral medications available to over 90 percent of ...
Read MoreHIV Pills Stolen and Turned into Street Drug: Whoonga
In South Africa over 6 million individuals are infected with HIV with an estimated 700,000 of them on ARV or anti-retroviral treatment. In addition to the lack of funding and access for these life prolonging treatments, a new barrier has emerged, ...
Read MoreThe Week in Sex: How can one week share World AIDS Day press and censorship at the National Portrait Gallery?; New Rights for Transgendered Athletes and Is Barbie's "Video Girl" a Tool for Child Pornographers this holiday season?
Censorship at the National Portrait Gallery In the week where every media outlet published content for World AIDS Day, it is incredible that the National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian, has removed content from the current exhibition Hi...
Read MoreWorld AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art--Today We Remember
Where have all the red ribbons gone? Today, as on every December 1st since 1988, we commemorate World AIDS Day on a global scale. With events, film screenings, donation drives, volunteer and art projects alike, today is a day to raise awareness as...
Read MoreThe Pope Talks Condoms
The relationship between condom promotion and the church has always been strained. Last year Pope Benedict XVI's anti condom remarks that condoms may actually be making the HIV/AIDS crisis worse while on his visit to Africa, were received quite po...
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