Can I Get Pregnant While On My Period?

Key takeaways:  It’s possible to get pregnant on your period, but only if you have a short cycle. The fertile window is only six days long, and for most people, this won’t coincide with days ...

Love Your Cervix

What does it mean to “love your cervix”? We at Vira want to help educate you about different parts of the female reproductive system so you can love them as much as we do. There’s a lot of mystery ...

Workshop: Period Power CSR in Samut Prakan

Vira x Cindy Bishop hosted a full-spectrum menstrual health workshop for girls—sharing knowledge that helps them truly understand their bodies, build their own inner resilience, and know how to pre...

Navigating Intimacy with STIs

By Poonyaweera (Pim) Temcharoen, UNAIDS - Bangkok, Thailand  Navigating intimacy while managing an STI (sexually transmitted infection) can feel like a scary or even isolating topic for most women,...

7 Things To Consider When it Comes To Lube

At Vira, we want to make space for the conversations that matter, especially the ones that impact your most intimate wellbeing, which involves your body and personal sex life. One of the most under...

Vira Reflects: Who Supported You During Your First Period?

This is the second installment of our monthly photo series, where women reflect on prompts related to our bodies, periods, health, sex, and more.  We asked 5 Thai women who they turned to for help ...

A Guide to Masturbating for the First Time

We put together a list of 6 things you can do to enjoy getting to know your body through masturbation.

Can I Have Sex on My Period?

It’s not something we see often in sex scenes of our favourite TV shows or movies. It’s not even something that we see or talk about when we’re learning about sex education in school. Sex and menst...

What Was Your First Period Like? 10 Thai Women Reflect.

Your first period can bring about many different feelings: excitement, shame, fear, celebration, anger, stress, teary, pain, messiness, newness… and the list goes on.  We often treat one’s period a...

Hormonal Health for Everyone: 5 Key Reminders

5 Reminders About Supporting your Hormonal Health, Regardless of Your Identity

What’s Really in Your Tampons?

For the first time ever, researchers published results from a study of different chemicals found in tampons (Berkeley Public Health, 2024) & (Environment International, 2024).  The results are ...

How You Can Help Reduce Period Poverty in Thailand

Vira has launched a new PERIOD POWER project to empower 1,000 Girls on the Thai-Myanmar Border. Learn more about how you can get involved to reduce Period Poverty.