via Aljazeera, by Andrew Wander Until recently, Loon Gangte thought the days of watching his friends die of Aids because they couldn’t get access to medicine were firmly in the past. In a decade and a half since being diagnosed with HIV, Gangte, a 43 year-old living in New Delhi, has seen his illness transform from a death sentence into Read More >>

by Rama Lakshmi for the Washington Post “Talking about disease and fear haven’t worked very well. People believe they are in a safe relationship and that disease does not apply to them,” said Arushi Singh, a resource officer for the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which trains health educators in South Asia. “But pleasure,” she said, “applies to Read More >>

India – Wake up to global reality on gays NEW DELHI: A combative Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who has lost his battle with the government on legalising homosexuality, says India should wake up to the growing global acceptance of gays as this would ensure “an effective fight against AIDS”. “I would like to help gays come overground Read More >>

[Quick comment from IRMA – while we are delighted that rectal microbicide research and advocacy are covered quite nicely in this article, we would like to offer one correction. IRMA is referred to as the International Rectal Microbicide Working Group – a former, harder-to-say version of ourselves that we assigned to the dustbin at the end of Read More >>

[IRMA shares this notice from the organizers of the first-ever Queer Pride in New Delhi, India. Our work as rectal microbicide advocates, after all, must be grounded in advancing the human rights we all share… to be who we are, wherever we are. Love to Delhi!] Delhi Queer Pride ’08 This June, for the first time, Queer Read More >>

Direct from Delhi – Microbicides 2008 Comes to Sweet Home Chicago RSVP – it’s FREE. NEXT WEEKWednesday June 25, 20086:00-8:00 p.m. University Center525 S. State StreetChicago Please join the Chicago Women and Girls HIV Prevention Coalition and the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates for this exclusive update from across the globe on the current developments in microbicide research Read More >>

Direct from Delhi – Microbicides 2008 Comes to Sweet Home Chicago Wednesday June 25, 2008 6:00-8:00 p.m. University Center 525 S. State Street Chicago, IL Please join the Chicago Women and Girls HIV Prevention Coalition and the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates for this exclusive update from across the globe on the current developments in microbicide research and Read More >>

Renegade Daughter and Microbicide DIVAMakes Subcontinental Advocacy MagicProves You CAN Go HomeAnd Walk the Talk Correspondence from IRMA advocates by way of India M2008 memories and the path forward by Shaleena Theophilus Thanks to the generous funding by IRMA through the John Shaw Memorial Scholarship, I was able to attend the Microbicides 2008 conference that was held Read More >>