| Documents |
| "POINT OF VIEW : FAITH, WOMEN AND HEALTH" |
World Information Transfer article, published in our World Ecology Report, Winter 2003
Vol. XIV, No. 4, regarding the Bush gag rule |
| "WE WANT TO LIVE AS HUMANS:" Repression of Women and Girls in Western Afghanistan |
From Human Rights Watch.
Afghan women and girls have suffered mounting abuses, harassment and restrictions of their fundamental human rights during 2002.
The 52-page report focuses on the increasingly harsh restrictions on women and girls imposed by Ismail Khan, a local governor in the west of Afghanistan who has received military and financial assistance from the United States. |
| 100,000 AMERICANS SAY YES TO UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND |
Press conference to announce plans for the first $1 million and the campaign’s next phase. Jane Roberts, 61, of California, and Lois Abraham, 68, of New Mexico, did not know each other in July 2002, but they had the same indignant reaction when the United States Administration rescinded $34 million in funding approved by Congress for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. They emailed friends urging them to send in $1 and contact other friends to “help right this terrible wrong”. Thus, the 34 Million Friends of UNFPA Campaign was born. |
| 16,000 In Largest HIV-Vaccine Trial |
The country's largest phase III trial of a possible HIV vaccine, involving 16,000 non-infected volunteer subjects, will commence next year, the Public Health Ministry said. |
| 2005 Lisbon Declaration: a historic agreement on sexual and reproductive health and rights |
On October 18, 2005 in the Parliament of Lisbon, Portugal, over 145 young leaders from political parties, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and youth governmental bodies, such as the Portuguese Institute for Youth and National Youth Council, signed the Lisbon Declaration, a historic agreement on sexual and reproductive health and rights. The Lisbon Declaration proclaims the signatories’ own commitment to advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health for all people, especially young people, and calls on the Portuguese government to step-up its investments in sexual and reproductive health and rights both at home and internationally. |
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| Experts & Sources |
| A. Toni Young |
National Black Women's HIV/AIDS Network |
| Adrienne Germain |
International Women's Health Coalition |
| Alexander Sanger |
International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region |
| Alice Frade |
Portuguese Family Planning Association (APF) |
| Alison Green |
Negative Population Growth (NPG) |
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| Story Ideas |
| 20 years of AIDS in America: a look back |
What is the status of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States 20 years after the first formal report? |
| 5 Portraits, Many Lives: How Unsafe Abortion Affects Women Everywhere |
Fictionalized stories that illuminate the personal contexts that lead women to seek abortions |
| A “demographic window” can slam shut fast: the State of World Population 2001 |
A series of fourteen town meetings highlighting the UNFPA report, Footprints and Milestones will be held across the United States in November and early December. |
| AIDS is a young woman’s disease: why they are suffering most |
Is the Spread of AIDS linked to the exploitation of women? |
| Can NGOs break even? One in Bolivia shows how it’s done |
In a country where the population is dispersed over 1 million square miles of rugged terrain, reaching Bolivia’s rural poor continues to be a major challenge for the health sector. However, the PROCOSI network of NGOs is finding new ways not only to reach the poor, but to ensure programs meet their clients needs and provide donors with return on their investment. |
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| Audio & Visuals |
| AUDIO FEATURE: BRAZIL: Model for success? |
July 10, 2002:
Suggested intro/cue material for presenter:
This week at the UN AIDS conference in Barcelona, the Brazilian government
issued a challenge to the international pharmaceutical industry. It unveiled
a plan to help other developing countries manufacture copies of AIDS drugs.
The plan draws widely from Brazil's own experience since the mid-nineties,
when it became the first country to sidestep patent laws on AIDS drugs by
making cheap versions in state-owned laboratories. The policy has had huge
success, enabling Brazil to distribute drugs free-of-charge to people living
with HIV and AIDS, and to drastically reduce its AIDS death rate. Yet, until
now, no other country has adopted the same policy - and today only 4 per
cent of people living with HIV and AIDS in the developing world receive any
drugs. A report from the international organisation, VSO, investigates why
other countries have been unable to follow Brazil's example until now. From
Sao Paulo, Andre Muggiati reports.
Download page for MP3 and Real Audio broadcast quality files (free
registration required)
http://www.interworldradio.org/audio/rad_show1.cfm?aud_i_id=239977
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| China 1 |
photo by Natalie Behring |
| DC Vigil ICPD +10 - Flags |
Flags at DC vigil honoring ICPD +10. |
| DC Vigil ICPD +10 - Jodi Jacobson |
Jodi Jacobson, Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) |
| DC Vigil ICPD +10 - Kim Gandy, NOW |
Kim Gandy of National Organization of Women holds a safe motherhood kit at an October 14 candlelight vigil honoring 10th anniversary of ICPD. |
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