The INFO Project Blog

A colleague from South Africa wrote…

“While this is an excellent and welcome contribution, I am concerned about gaps already.

I think we need to lay out issues carefully, if we are to really make headway. For many women there is a need to deal with not being in safe situations to negotiate safe sex. It seems like this kind of orientation is not acknowledged. The language that is used assumes that married heterosexual couples are the dominant kind of relationship.

While there is work happening on ‘working with men’ there needs to be equal efforts to engage women to understand patterns of sexual violence. How do women negotiate safer sex with a drunken husband upon whom she is economically dependant?
We need to acknowledge and make headway on female controlled methods of femidoms and micorbicides. We need to popularise emergency contraception and also deal with the reality of unwanted pregnancy and abortion.”