Category Archives: family planning

  1. AIDS Summit at the UN: Not Enough Talk About Sex

    Via the Huffington Post, by Evelyn Leopold. World leaders gathered at the United Nations to mark the 30th anniversary of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and put out a 102-paragraph declaration. Adrienne Germain, the president of the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), has been working on women’s issues all her adult life and was active in the 1994 Cairo Read More >>

    ARV, ARVs, family planning, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS policy, MSM, sex work, United Nations
  2. Obama Likely To Reverse Some Bush Administration HIV/AIDS Prevention, Family Planning Policies, Adviser Says

    President-elect Barack Obama likely will undo U.S. family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention efforts that long linked funding to antiabortion and abstinence-only policies, Susan Wood — co-chair of Obama’s advisory committee for women’s health and a professor at George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services — said recently, Bloomberg reports. Wood said that although President Read More >>

    family planning, HIV/AIDS policy, PEPFAR, President Barack Obama