In a Washington Post article dated July 28, 2010, reporter Jessica Gresko talks with TWC outreach worker Charlene Cotton about the new female condom. The article entitled "DC pushes female condoms to fight HIV epidemic" explores the efforts of groups like TWC that are conducting intensive outreach and education on the FC2.

ABC7 News spoke with Patricia Nalls, TWC founder/executive director about some of the exciting developments in microbicide research coming out of the International AIDS Conference in Vienna for a piece titled "AIDS Activists Cheer HIV-blocking Gel."

"For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. The gel is spiked with the drug tenofovir, which has only been offered in a pill form until now. Patricia Nalls, who was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1986, says the new drug is groundbreaking. "Hopefully it's a safe, accessible and discreet tool that she can go in the bathroom, she can put in, on, she can come out and she can have sex," Nalls said.