Female condoms have been available since the early 1990s but they are often seen as more expensive and a bit awkward to use. But there is a new generation of female condoms which is cheaper and easier to use and it’s a shame that more women haven’t explored this option for their birth control. In Washington ...
Dear Madame X, I have recently started to date a man who has just told me he is HIV positive. What should I do? Over the last four months I have fallen in love with him. I feel betrayed that he didn’t tell be at the beginning of the relationship so I could leave before ...
Russian authorities are refusing to let Svetlana Izambayeva adopt her 10 year old brother, preferring the boy remain in an orphanage to living with his sister. Why? Svatlana is HIV positive.
Worried that the disease will not kill them fast enough, a law is making it’s way through Uganda’s parliament that proposes executing gay people who are HIV positive. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 also provides life imprisonment for those who participate in gay sex. Someone clearly misread the World AIDS day information pack. The “aggravated homosexuality” ...
With today being World AIDS Day it seemed a good time to discuss myths and facts about HIV. In spite of over two decades of research and science there is still a lot of misinformation about HIV. Some of these will be discussed below. Myth 1: You cannot get a test for HIV until 6 ...
More than 22,000 people in the UK have HIV but do not know it. You could be one of them. There has been an 8% increase in HIV in the UK between 2007 and 2008 with a total of over 83,000 people living with the virus. It continues to astound me how in spite of good public ...
The government is planning to screen the entire population for HIV and AIDS, amid concerns that one quarter of the people infected by the virus are unaware they have it. Gay men and black Africans, who are reportedly* more likely to carry the virus, will be targeted in the pilot scheme. Brighton and Lewisham will ...
Mack // There has been a lot of media lately publishing articles about a potential new HIV vaccine. This is a wonderful progression in fighting the virus. After 25 years the virus and the way it affects peoples lives has changed a lot; it not longer condemns people to death, it is no longer a ...
Morning QuickieMick // A new German safe-sex ad campaign is causing all kinds of controversy by portraying women having sex with mass murderers like Hitler and Stalin. The point is to make people aware of the dangers of unprotected sex. It has been criticized for equating people with AIDS with genocidal dictators. While the ad agency, ...
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This week, for a change of pace, I’m looking at non-fiction online. Bookslut is an established and well-publicised e-zine...
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet...
Happy Earth Day! Earth Day Network and Women Saving the World - Kathleen Rogers from Womensphere on Vimeo.
As I lay stricken in bed the other night, twisted in agony and gurning manfully at the grinding torment...
Sandwiches. Gender conspiracy. War on women. Let me explain. It was a sunny afternoon here in southern Germany. I’d...
Touch his penis! Men like it and it feels good. Plus sometimes they do need help getting hard and...
On rare occasions, television does reflect real life. A new series that debuted on HBO last weekend, Girls offers...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend seems to have a man-crush on one of his male friends who he really...
