Good vaginal health

BV and HIV play tennis together in a pink underground cave, to demonstrate that HIV risk increases in a sexual partner, if you have BV and are HIV positive.
Does your BV affect your partner’s HIV risk?

Can BV affect your partner's HIV risk? What the evidence says about bacterial vaginosis and HIV transmission, and why U=U comes first.

An old timey advert for a feminine hygeine powder, a white 1950s housewife looks in the mirror happily with her feminine hygeine powder at hand
The history of douching and ‘feminine hygiene’ marketing

How shame-based 'feminine hygiene' marketing turned douching into a habit, and why it harms the vagina it claims to clean.

Two BV related bacteria try to catch HIV with a fishing line
Does BV make it easier to catch HIV?

Does bacterial vaginosis raise HIV risk? What the evidence says about BV, the vaginal microbiome and HIV susceptibility.