Dear Madame X, My friends and I were talking about HIV the other day, and were arguing over the difference between HIV and AIDS. One friend thought people with HIV got AIDS and that it’s a death sentence and another was sure that drugs stopped that from happening. Which of my friends was right? I ...
More effort is needed to prevent HIV transmission and the current response is “woefully inadequate” in the UK, according to a government report released today. They are concerned that the number of people living with HIV will be more than 100,000 in 2012 and that too many people are ignorant of how to protect themselves. ...
Great news from UNAIDS and WHO! After looking at what happens when people without HIV take anti-HIV drugs, they found new infections can be reduced up to 73 percent! Results announced today from two studies reveal that a daily antiretroviral tablet taken by people who do not have HIV infection can reduce their risk of ...
An HIV testing campaign in New York is in big trouble for revealing the ugly truth about having the infection. It’s main premise is that “when you get HIV, it’s never just HIV.” Through a video ad it shows sad looking men and talks about the fact that “dozens of diseases” are more likely when people ...
Would you want to take HIV drugs every day if you didn’t have an HIV infection? My guess is that most people would rather not deal with the side-effects and hassle of a daily pill if they did not actually have HIV. But research has shown that people who do this are less likely to ...
Many women are forcibly sterilized in South Africa and other parts of the continent when it is found out they are HIV-positive. This might be done by coercion or even without their consent. One woman quoted in this article only found out she had been sterilized when she and her husband were unable to conceive. ...
There is great news for HIV treatment this week. Both bananas and acne medication have recently been shown to help with the treatment of HIV.
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 ...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
