ONE Big Oversight
May 29, 2007
As the U.S. Presidential campaign season begins to heat up, a number of advocacy groups are beginning to develop policy platforms for candidates to support and endorse in their campaigns. The ONE Campaign, which develops these platforms for policymakers around the world on the topics of poverty and HIV/AIDS, is putting together such a document right now. Regrettably, rumor has it that ONE's platform will give only passing mention of one of the most effective methods of fighting poverty and hunger, curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and reducing child and maternal mortality: family planning and reproductive health care.
Family Planning Key to Curbing Child Mortality
May 21, 2007
Maternal and infant mortality have declined in Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nepal and the Philippines according to a new report released by Save the Children. Much of this good news can be attributed to access to family planning services which give women the ability to space their children at healthy intervals and plan the size of their families. The successes of these five countries show how crucial financial and political commitments to family planning are to curbing child mortality, as well as meeting other development goals.
Fuse on the 'population bomb' has been relit
Media Source: Christian Science Monitor
May 21, 2007
While the developed world deals with a 'birth dearth,' populations are exploding in developing nations. What the first world should do to help.
Q&A: "Abstinence Is Not the Only Way to Go"
Media Source: Inter Press Service News Agency
May 21, 2007
Few aid programmes have been as controversial among activists and public health experts as the George W. Bush administration's abstinence-based HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention initiative, called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando serves as the director of the Centre for the Study of Adolescence in Nairobi, Kenya and appears in a new nine-minute documentary by the Washington-based group Population Action International titled "Abstaining From Reality".
New York Screening for New Film that Examines How U.S. Abstinence-Only Policies Harm Women, Children in Africa and around World
May 17, 2007
Lawmakers, Experts Join Capitol Hill Screening of New Film Examining How U.S. Abstinence-Only Policies Harm Women, Children in Africa and around World
May 15, 2007
Fight Against HIV/AIDS Depends on Both PEPFAR and US-Supported Family Planning
May 14, 2007
As the HIV/AIDS epidemic increasingly affects women it is more important than ever that HIV/AIDS programs coordinate with and complement family planning and reproductive health programs. The question is: How can this be done most effectively?
Powerful New Film Examining How U.S. Abstinence-Only Policies Endanger Women, Children in Africa and Around World To Be Screened on Capitol Hill Tuesday Evening
May 10, 2007
U.S. Cuts Its Own HIV/AIDS Strategy Off At The Knees
May 7, 2007
Experts, activists and government officials agree on one thing: Meeting the needs of women is paramount to reducing worldwide HIV infections. Unfortunately, the U.S. response to achieving this goal has been at cross purposes. Rather than playing a starring role in reducing HIV infection in women and children, family planning programs are suffering from diminishing or a total lack of U.S. funding in almost all of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief's (PEPFAR) fifteen “focus countries.” In effect, while the U.S. response to HIV/AIDS grows, its support for the very health programs where women have sought care for over four decades has lost considerable ground.
Family Planning - A Crucial Intervention for HIV-positive Women
May 1, 2007
Each year, over 600,000 children around the world are infected with HIV through mother-to-child-transmission, totaling 2.3 million children living with HIV or AIDS today. The majority of these infections is occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and are acquired from mothers during pregnancy, labor, delivery or breastfeeding. While programs to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother-to-child (PMTCT) are invaluable, they currently are reaching only an estimated five percent of the HIV-positive population.
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