EDITORS' FORUM - 'Passive Women, Active Men'
ANOTHER IN the series of Gleaner Public Editors' Forum, focusing on health and and well-being, was held Wednesday, August 31, in association with the Faculty of Medical Sciences...

EDITORS' FORUM - Double standard crisis
FAITH WEBSTER, acting head of the Bureau of Women's Affairs: THE BUREAU of Women's Affairs has been attempting to educate and sensitise the public, and in particular, we have school education programmes where we speak to students about the issue...

EDITORS' FORUM - Gender stereotypes intensify HIV threat
DR. DOUGLAS McDonald, senior medical officer, Victoria Jubilee Hospital, and consultant gynaecologist: GENDER HAS a powerful influence on sexual behaviour and gender stereotypes...

EDITORS' FORUM - Kids exploring high-risk sex
Hope Ramsay, lecturer, researcher at University of the West Indies HIV/AIDS Response Programme (UWIHARP), Community Health and Psychiatry: KISKO BAG CRAZE DANGEROUS...

EDITORS' FORUM - Call for culture of chastity
Ian Boyne, journalist: FOR US to deal with this pandemic in Jamaica ... we have to take a multi-pronged approach to dealing with this issue. There is no way we can deal meaningfully with the pandemic in Jamaica...

EDITORS' FORUM - Old men, young girls
Gillian Bernard, sector and community response HIV prevention coordinator of the National HIV Prevention and Control Programme, Health Ministry: WE SEE, as a result of social factors....

EDITORS' FORUM - 'Female passivity mere myth'
TODAY HALF of the adults living with HIV/AIDS are women. This gender impact of the pandemic is seen in every region of the world. In the Caribbean region, generally, and in Jamaica, in particular...

EDITORS' FORUM - Challenging Church, media and women
WOMEN'S MEDIA Watch is concerned about the media's input. We have breached the responsibilities we have, as a people, to manage what we present: the images and pictures of men and women and the consistent message...