Human rights abuses fuel Aids pandemic
Media Source: Mail and Gaurdian
July 21, 2006
Thousands of delegates from around the world gather in Toronto, Canada, next month for the Sixteenth International Aids Conference, and a leading human rights group has urged them to consider the following cases.
HIV Is Treatable, It's the Stigma That's Fatal
Media Source: Inter-Press Service
July 19, 2006
When thousands of delegates from around the world gather in Toronto next month for the Sixteenth International AIDS Conference, a leading human rights group has urged them to consider the following cases.
Access to Reproductive Health Supplies is Crucial to Achieving Millennium Development Goals
July 18, 2006
Ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information, services and supplies is essential to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a recent report released by the Millennium Project. The report makes five specific recommendations on integrating SRH into the MDGs, including funding for reproductive health supplies and the systems that ensure accurate and timely distribution. PAI strongly endorses these recommendations, specifically the need to improve access to contraceptives and condoms to meet the growing global demand. Without access to supplies, a sustainable reproductive health program is unattainable.
What You Need To Know About the Global Gag Rule Restrictions On U.S. Family Planning Assistance
July 11, 2006
On January 22, 2001 - his second day in office - President George W. Bush announced the reinstatement of the restrictions on overseas health care organizations in effect during the mid-1980s and early 1990s, commonly known as the "Mexico City Policy." The policy reversal has had serious ramifications for U.S. support for international family planning and reproductive health programs around the world.
PAI Urges Congress to Support PATHWAY Act
July 10, 2006
In response to the tremendous need for greater flexibility in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in-country, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, with 56 original co-sponsors, introduced H.R. 5674, the Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth (PATHWAY) Act of 2006. PATHWAY will require the President to develop a comprehensive strategy to combat the spread of HIV among women and children and eliminate the requirement that 33% of all HIV/AIDS prevention assistance go toward abstinence-until-marriage programs. PAI urges Congress to support this bill and allow countries the flexibility to develop HIV/AIDS prevention programs that respond to the unique needs of the epidemic in their countries rather than arbitrary quotas developed more with politics than prevention in mind.
Demographic map offers bleak look at future (Op-ed)
Media Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
July 9, 2006
Want to buy a piece of beach property? You might want to consult a map first -- and read up on the recent scientific findings that the ice caps in both Antarctica and Greenland seem to be melting, and fast.
How Shifts To Smaller Family Sizes Contributed To The Asian Miracle
July 3, 2006
Economists credit declining fertility, from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, as a major contributor to sustained economic growth among the Asian Tigers - the economically vibrant nations of South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and the former Hong Kong Territory. Research indicates that shifts to smaller family sizes and slower rates of population growth played a key role in the creation of an educated workforce, the accumulation of household and government savings, the rise in wages, and the impressive growth of investments in manufacturing technology.
U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Highlights Need for Family Planning in HIV/AIDS Prevention
July 3, 2006
Although woefully underfunded compared to other HIV/AIDS prevention programs, family planning and reproductive health services are essential tools in reducing the spread of HIV. For example, family planning services are effective and affordable interventions for preventing mother-to-child transmission of the disease by helping HIV-positive women have access to the contraceptives they desire to prevent unintended pregnancies.
Cambodia and HIV: Winning Round Two in a Preventive Fight
July 1, 2006
A generation has passed since the onset of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. During this time, 65 million people have been infected with HIV and more than 25 million people died of AIDS. Despite the devastation, many countries, using a variety of interventions, have been successful in slowing the spread of the virus. The interventions that have been most successful are those that are congruent with the local epidemiology. With the overall HIV/AIDS epidemic being composed of a series of smaller local epidemics interconnected by space or time, a range and mix of responses in the fight against HIV/AIDS is necessary. And the relative impact of each response will always depend upon the level, stage and pattern of the epidemic in each locale. Therefore to be effective, interventions should respond to local needs.
Condom Use and HPV
June 26, 2006
A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine substantiates the effectiveness of condoms both in the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI), including the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). The findings of the study Condom Use and the Risk of Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection in Young Women, support PAI's long held belief that condom use is critical not only for HIV prevention but for prevention of other STIs. Programs that promote condom use for the prevention of HIV must collaborate with family planning programs for the purpose of reducing STIs, including HPV.
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