The vagina dialogues

Eve Ensler: Women cannot be prevented from getting Aids without ending violence towards them

You can’t teach young people safe sex by inserting the letter Z into wordz

Stuart Heritage: The worst thing you can do is underestimate teenagers' intelligence

Experts worry about danger to partners but also that late diagnosis means there is less chance of successful treatment

Calls for Vatican to clarify the church's position as opponents say the media misinterpreted remarks

Official says 'lesser evil' in areas of HIV contagion risk, but congregation gives mixed reaction to announcement

Campaigners say breakthrough could change approaches to preventing HIV and Aids

Martin Pendergast: Benedict XVI recognises moral decision making is a step-by-step process, and his approach to condoms and HIV reflects this

HIV campaigners hail positive step forward but church warns that Pope Benedict XVI's statement is not official teaching

For the past 42 years the church has shackled itself to a dogma that many of its adherants have simply ignored

Andrew Brown: Pope Benedict XVI has cautiously but decisively removed the single most stupid and wicked policy of the Catholic church