SIECUS Report articles from June 2005

SIECUS Report archives from June 2005

Women's health issues: the personal, the medical, and the political.(reports)(Editorial)
June 22, 2005... For most SIECUS Reports we pick a very specific topic and examine it closely. In recent issues we have looked at Marriage and Sex Workers, and, of course, each year we examine sexuality education. Issues like this, however, often turn out to be...

Fourteen years later--a mother's story revisited.(mother of a girl died of HIV)
June 22, 2005... Fourteen years ago, in Vol. 20 of the SIECUS Report, I wrote an anonymous story about discovering my daughter was HIV+ and the tragic family issues that ensued. That story received a lot of attention at a time when learning you had HIV was akin...

Understanding Human Papillomavirus and cervical cancer.
June 22, 2005... "You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across wierdish wild space..." --Dr. Seuss Indeed, charting a course through the HPV maze can be...

Emergency Contraception: the science and politics driving the debate.
June 22, 2005... Emergency Contraception (EC) refers to any type of birth control method used after intercourse to prevent pregnancy. The two possible methods are the emergency insertion of an Intrauterine Device (IUD) or the administration of emergency...

Emergency Contraception's mode of action clarified.
June 22, 2005... Emergency contraceptive pills, a hormonal treatment that can prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse, have been the subject of heated debate. At issue is the method's mechanism of action: does it prevent the...

Subject to debate: virginity or death!(womens health)
June 22, 2005... Imagine a vaccine that would protect women from a serious gynecological cancer. Wouldn't that be great? Well, both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline recently announced that they have conducted successful trials of vaccines that protect against the...

Vulvodynia: a hidden women's health issue.(research)
June 22, 2005... Vulvodynia, or chronic vulvar pain, is a common problem affecting women. Historically, cases of vulvodynia with no apparent physical explanation were seen as resulting from psychosexual factors. However, we now understand that vulvodynia is a...