Maria de Bruyn

Maria de Bruyn is a medical anthropologist and began her work on gender-related issues in the field of HIV/AIDS in 1990 at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. She now works as a senior policy advisor at Ipas, an international NGO focused on women’s reproductive choice and rights.

HIV, women and abortion rights

Interventions to link HIV-related and reproductive health services must not only include access to modern contraceptive methods and non-discriminatory antenatal, delivery and postnatal care, but also access to safe legal abortion, says Maria de Bruyn

By Maria de Bruyn

/ 23 Jul 2012

HIV: what kind of evidence counts ?

Some will find no evidence of value if it doesn’t coincide with the views that they already hold, or the interests they perceive are important to their most powerful supporters

By Maria de Bruyn

/ 23 Jul 2010