WomenMatter is the place where we connect the details of our personal lives to what government does. In this show, Protect Yourself: New Possibilities for Women in the Bedroom, we follow Congress in taking a look at the most personal issue of all… Let's talk about sex!

Did you know that products which can be quietly and discreetly inserted into the vagina before sex to kill AIDS and other nasty bugs are currently being developed specifically for us women?

Dr. Nancy Bauer talks to Dr. Polly Harrison about how microbicides could radically change how we think and talk about sex-- by providing women, for the first time, with the ability to take the initiative in protecting ourselves and our partners in the bedroom.

Listen to the show to find out how this very private issue has made it all the way to Congress- and what each one of us can do to make sure that microbicides also make it to our bedrooms ASAP.

Polly Harrison, PhD, is Founder and Director of the Alliance for Microbicide. Development. Senior Program Officer and Director of International Health at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, where she founded the Forum on HIV/AIDS Research and Forum on Emerging Infections. Prior to that, she spent two decades living and working in the developing world as a medical anthropologist, policy analyst, faculty member of the Development Studies Program, and Regional Social Science Advisor for USAID

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• Click here to learn more about protecting yourself and the new possibilities for women in bedroom: download a detailed, printable report on microbicides from WomenMatter.
• Click here to find your Senator and Representative and tell them to sign on as co-sponsors to the Microbicide Development Act of 2007.

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