The risk of vertical HIV transmission – from mother to child during pregnancy or delivery – is zero when a mother has a fully suppressed viral load from the time of conception until after giving birth, an analysis combining 138 studies and 82,723 month-infant pairs has concluded. The analysis found that if viral load is above 50 copies but below 1000 copies during pregnancy, the risk of vertical transmission is approximately one in 77 – in other words, for every 77 pregnancies where viral load is detectable but below 1000 copies, one will result in vertical HIV transmission.

Two years ago, the first over-the-counter birth control pill was approved. Now, new research looks at who's switching to it and why.

Political will, free maternity care and digital health tools helped Botswana achieve high standards for ending mother-to-child transmission.

Lisa Laman is an autistic, transfeminine person, and she’s here to help you through your dating and relationship experiences through the lens of her own.

On your path to improving your digital security, you may encounter bad actors who attempt to undermine your security goals. We call these bad actors adversaries. When an adversary sends an email (or t...

As reproductive rights come under attack in the United States and other countries around the world, it is vital that people have access to accurate abortion information–especially online. Reproductive...

A higher dose of an emergency-contraception drug may open a back door for Americans seeking abortions in restrictive states.

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As age verification bills pass across the world under the guise of “keeping children safe online,” governments are increasingly giving themselves the authority to decide what topics are deemed “safe” ...

Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.

Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Patriarchal Political Order

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Jou...

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability an...