From the category archives:

HIV/AIDS and Other STIs

This morning a special issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine was released, containing a 118 page report on the National Survey [...]

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Over the weekend, in an op-ed column entitled “Birth Control Over Baldness”, award-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof described a “high-tech [...]

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This week on Akimbo we did a run down of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), paired with our film picks in the [...]

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Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases Millennium Development Goal 6 has two objectives: achieve universal access to HIV/AIDS [...]

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Forced sterilization of women whom governments or individual doctors deem to be unsuitable for procreation isn’t anything new.  Certain factions within the [...]

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Back in April, I won the International Women’s Health Coalition Young Visionaries 2010 contest and was awarded a grant to increase awareness [...]

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Since 2002, women have represented more than half of all people living with HIV worldwide. Women in the developing world often face [...]

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Making female condoms accessible, available and affordable for all women and men—that’s what the Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC) Joint Programme [...]

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We’re pleased to announce some exciting news regarding our HIV/AIDS work. As you may know, with the economic crisis and ongoing uncertainties [...]

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Last week, I had the opportunity to be part of the delegation at the International AIDS Conference held in Vienna. Early in [...]

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