STI

Behind the nationwide program that empowered health authorities to surveil women, quarantine them in miserable conditions, and force them to undergo painful and ineffective treatments.

• By Peter C. Baker

The heavy stigmatization of herpes only contributes to increases in disease transmission and hinders public health prevention efforts.

• By Melinda Pettigrew

Once derided as being like a plastic bag with the erotic appeal of a jellyfish, the female condom is undergoing a transformation.

• By Emily Anthes