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9/8/2009 - Berlin Conference Issues Call to Action
The NGO Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development held in Berlin last week issued a Berlin Call to Action urging immediate and international action to improve women's health and access to resources....
8/5/2009 - DC to Expand STD Testing Program in High Schools
All high school students in DC will be offered free and confidential testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the upcoming school year, school officials have announced....
7/1/2009 - El Paso Planned Parenthood Closing
The Planned Parenthood in El Paso, Texas, is closing after 72 years due to financial difficulties....
6/29/2009 - HIV-Positive Namibian Women Suing Government for Forced Sterilization
At least fifteen HIV-positive women in Namibia who were forcibly sterilized are now suing the government....
6/22/2009 - Study Finds Teen Contraceptive Use Declining
Teen contraceptive use is declining, according to a study released last week by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Guttmacher Institute....
4/3/2009 - MTV Launches "Get Yourself Tested" Campaign
MTV launched a campaign yesterday to promote sexually transmitted disease testing among young people....
3/12/2009 - Obama Restores US Funding of UNFPA by Signing Omnibus Spending Bill
President Obama signed the 2009 fiscal year omnibus spending bill yesterday, which included a provision allotting $50 million to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)....
3/6/2009 - Anti-United Nations Population Fund Amendment Defeated in Senate
An amendment to the 2009 fiscal year omnibus spending bill currently under debate that would have removed funds designated for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from the bill was defeated yesterday....
1/26/2009 - Obama Pledges Restoration of US Funding for UNFPA
President Obama pledged on Friday to restore United States funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in upcoming appropriations....
12/1/2008 - Today is 20th Anniversary of World AIDS Day
Worlds AIDS Day is being commemorated globally today with HIV/AIDS testing initiatives, awareness drives, and fundraising efforts....
8/7/2008 - International AIDS Conference 2008 to Close Friday
Friday is the final day of the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City....
8/4/2008 - Multiple HIV/AIDS Conferences in Mexico Begin
Latin American and Caribbean leaders met Friday in Mexico at the 1st Meeting of Ministers of Education and Health to address HIV/AIDS....
7/28/2008 - Congress Repeals HIV Travel Ban
The House of Representatives voted Friday to repeal a discriminatory law that prevents HIV-positive foreigners from entering the country....
7/11/2008 - McCain Dodges Questions about Women's Health
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain resisted commenting on insurance companies that cover Viagra but not birth control Wednesday....
5/1/2008 - Ms. Magazine Forum Raises Awareness on International Family Planning
Ms Magazine held a forum at the National Press Club on Wednesday to raise awareness for the effort to increase funding for international family planning to $1 billion in the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act....
3/17/2008 - United Nations Finds US Not Combating Racism Effectively
The United Nations (UN) Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination called attention to the wide racial disparities that continue to exist in the US....
3/14/2008 - UN Deputy Secretary General Declares Women's Role Essential to Reaching Development Goals
The United Nations (UN) Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro announced in a speech that efforts to reach the UN's Millennium Development Goals must focus on empowering women....
1/3/2008 - Bush Signs Domestic Spending Bill
President Bush signed a $555 billion domestic spending bill last week, which included $300 million in funding for Title X family planning programs, a $17 million increase from last year’s $283 million....
10/19/2007 - Global Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Remains Poor
Twenty years after the launching of the World Health Organization’s Safe Motherhood Initiative, the sexual and reproductive health status of women across the globe has remained relatively poor and "disturbingly static," Population Action International (PAI) reports....
7/5/2007 - Laura Bush Rebukes Husband on Abstinence Only Requirement
First Lady Laura Bush revealed recently that, while she believes that abstinence education is an important component of HIV prevention efforts, she would be supportive of waiving the earmark mandating that 33 percent of US prevention funds be spent of abstinence-only programs....
6/27/2007 - Today is National HIV Testing Day; Infection Rates among Women on the Rise
Today marks the 15th annual National HIV Testing Day, organized by the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA)....
5/1/2007 - Bush's Chief for USAID, HIV Prevention Resigns Over Sex Scandal
Randall Tobias, Director of US Foreign Assistance and Adminstrator of the Agency for International Development (USAID), has resigned after admitting that he had used a DC escort service....
4/25/2007 - Family Planning Advocates Delay Proposed World Bank Policy Changes on Reproductive Health
The World Bank Board of Directors opted to defer a decision on changing its Strategy for Health, Nutrition, and Population after representatives from several European countries voiced objections to the proposals....
3/8/2007 - Young Girls Speak, are Focus of 51st Meeting on Status of Women
Over 6,000 women and men from around the world gathered in New York for the 51st annual meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women....
3/7/2007 - House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Global AIDS Program, Focuses on Gender
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Other Programs held a hearing last week on US programs to combat HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) across the world....
