CNN posts a short video examining the unrealistic conditions attached to US foreign-aid for HIV/AIDS prevention which requires that recipient countries spend 33% of funds on abstinence programs, often to the detriment of effective prevention strategies.    

While Hillary Clinton announces that if elected she would strike the abstinence requirement as part of her global strategy to combat AIDS (via CNN).  

The New York Times says that Democrat leaders should confront Bush's abstinence-only hoax and eliminate the $28 million increase for abstinence-only sex education from Congress's main social spending bill.  

RH Reality Check has a launched an excellent series on obstetric fistula - a debilitating childbirth injury that was virtually eliminated in the United States in 1895 but still affects over two million women in the developing world - noting that fistula is an indicator of failing health systems and complacency regarding social equality.  

Hillary Clinton's rivals for the Democratic nomination are advancing the argument that it's not anti-feminist for female voters to support male candidates (via The New York Times).