Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 2, 2009. Teens are having more condomless sex than they did in the 1990s. It's time for science-based sex ed, not moralizing.
Whitney Welshimer, Akimbo. March 5, 2009. Male circumcision is not full-proof. And it gives many men an excuse to avoid condoms, which puts their female partners at more risk.
Gloria Reuben, RH Reality Check. February 7, 2009. HIV/AIDS has reached crisis levels among the Black population of the U.S. We cannot ignore the impact of racism and discrimination in this epidemic.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. January 28, 2009. Hostility to women perceived as "sexually loose" cripples efforts to protect women's rights and health.
Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast. January 8, 2009. Team Obama likes to cite Warren's work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms save lives?
Scott Foval, Huffington Post. December 29, 2008. This year, I am telling my story so that people know why HIV/AIDS research is crucial for the entire population.
Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check. December 17, 2008. Less than 4 percent of news is health-related. And shoddy reporting on sexual health may be doing more harm than good.
Kaytee Riek, RH Reality Check. December 1, 2008. Obama promises to leave behind ideology-driven debates over how to spend money, and instead put common sense and science first.
Todd Heywood, RH Reality Check. November 18, 2008. Doctors in Berlin are reporting that a man may have eliminated the virus from his body after a bone marrow transplant.
Erika Cebreros, New America Media. October 1, 2008. Health authorities in Tijuana now charge more for the medical tests required for sex workers. The price increase may keep many away from the doctor.
Todd Heywood, RH Reality Check. October 1, 2008. Worldwide, 33 million people are infected. One candidate has a formal plan to deal with this health crisis. The other doesn't.
Paul Armentano, NORML AlterNet: PEEK. August 7, 2008. Marijuana helps relieve neuropathic pain in people with HIV, says a University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine study.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 17, 2008. After a decade long fight the Senate takes us one step farther from legalized discrimination.
Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check. July 10, 2008. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is tangled in ideological restrictions. Fixing the legislation would save millions more lives.
Daniel DiRito, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: Health and Wellness. June 11, 2008. Conservatives continue to inappropriately attach moral judgments to a medical issue.
Marcy Bloom, On The Issues Magazine. June 9, 2008. Women are vulnerable to HIV because of discrimination, violence and powerlessness. They need more than health care -- they need broad social change.
Lauren Sisson, RH Reality Check. April 30, 2008. The freedom to practice safe sex remains elusive for many of the world's women. We must invest in making female condoms available and accessible.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 26, 2008. Some of the most vocal critics of the minister's statements about HIV are also proponents of our dangerous, backwards international AIDS policy.
Alexander Sanger, Alexander Sanger - Beyond Choice. March 14, 2008. In the battle against HPV and HIV, are male circumcision and vaccinations the best weapons?
