sexual health
Reader diary posted by PlannedParenthoodAdvocate, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund October 22, 2009 - 12:14pm
Planned Parenthood MN, ND, SD is focusing on the importance of family meals
to encourage connection. To that end, we've created
the Planned Parenthoods Lets Talk Month Tablemat, a tool to help get
mealtime conversations started.
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A radio drama written and directed by an MFA student at the University of Iowa aims to empower Latina women about sexual health. The program, called “La Noche Te De Sorpresas,” or “The Night Gives You Surprises,” is broadcast in Spanish and is one of two culturally-specific radio shows being launched by the University of Iowa College of Public Health and the Iowa Initiative to Reduce Unintended Pregnancies.
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By Amie Newman, Managing Editor October 9, 2009 - 12:19pm
The League of Young Voters sounds the alarm on abstinence-only funding restored in the health care reform bill in a hilarious new video that parodies the "marshmallow test" experiment...
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No one method is 100% effective in perfect or typical use over time. In typical use, condoms are around 85% effective, or present a 15% risk of pregnancy. But in perfect use, they're about 98% effective, or present about a 2% risk of pregnancy.
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An AIDS campaign in Germany equates AIDS with mass-murder. But it is a health condition caused by an untreated viral infection and can be prevented through real information and education, not scare tactics.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor September 15, 2009 - 9:42am
The far right continues to use the "sex boogeyman" as a scare tactic to undermine comprehensive sex ed, here and abroad. Agence-France Press reports that guidelines originally drafted by the UN cultural organisation Unesco will promote.....(gasp!)....masturbation.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor September 3, 2009 - 8:36am
Activists from 131 countries convened in Berlin yesterday to recharge a global movement for women's health and rights, opening with an appeal from a leading government minister for countries to earmark 1 percent of their economic stimulus funds for development needs.
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Universal health care will save lives, and likely lower the abortion rate. But given a choice between preventing abortion and punishing women for sex, the anti-choice movement chooses the latter every time.
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Stigma, discrimination, poverty, homophobia, racism, sexism, all fuel the spread of HIV and hurt those living with it. These issues are routinely cited as critical to ending the epidemic but rarely addressed in policies and prevention strategies.
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Successful dating and partnering over fifty-five can and does happen for both sexes - and not just for the post-graduate cheerleader and football captain.
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