Vagina Dispatches: What Don’t You Know About Your Vulva?
Do you know what your vulva looks like? Could you, say, draw it if you were asked? What’s the difference between a vagina … More
Monthly Archives: September 2016
New Study Says Maternal Health Needs a “Radical Reappraisal”
According to a first of its kind global maternal health series published by The Lancet this month, more women survive childbirth now than they did … More
Guidance for Interstitial Cystitis/ Bladder Pain Syndrome
Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS) is a poorly understood chronic pain condition estimated to affect between 2.7% to 6.5% of women in the … More
President Obama’s Push to Permanently Protect Planned Parenthood
Earlier this year, Congress was set to vote on a bill to fund anti-Zika efforts. Everyone agreed that the funding was needed. Yet … More
A Farewell to Abstinence and Fidelity: Comments on the 2016 Political Declaration on Ending AIDS
by Mikaela Hildebrand In June, I took part in the 2016 United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS as part of the official Swedish … More
Students Welcomed Back to School with Free Tampons and Pads
When twenty students from Brown University’s Undergraduate Council of Students, including senior and president of the organization Viet Nguyen, returned to campus last … More
Teen Pregnancy Rates Decrease Because of More Contraception (Not Less Sex)
News flash: Contraception works. The teen pregnancy rate in the United States declined 25 percent from 2007 to 2011. The decline can be … More