Imagine earning less than $2 a day, then learning that you are not only HIV positive but pregnant. Imagine having lost seven children to starvation and learning that you are […]
Tag: HIV/AIDS
Frat Boys, Misogynist Geeks and Homophobes: Editors’ Picks, 10/3-10/9
From ColorLines: Yesterday Oprah, whose 1987 program “AIDS in America” was groundbreaking, got schooled on HIV and had her own aha! moment. Her interviewee, a woman who sued her ex-husband […]
Zulu Tradition Fuels Virginity Myths in South Africa
The first time I heard about “baby rapes” was almost eight years ago. Someone had dropped a report on my desk about the widespread belief in South Africa that having […]
A Feminist Focus at the International AIDS Conference
The six-day International AIDS Conference, ended today. At the annual conference, people working to stop the pandemic as well as persons living with HIV gather to assess progress, evaluate scientific […]
Global News Roundup: Africa, England, France and the World Wide Web
AFRICA: As Drew Hinshaw reports in “No Turning Back,” his piece in the summer Ms. issue, the adoption of parliamentary gender quotas in transitioning African governments has “changed southern and eastern Africa […]