Friday Click List

Friday, 12 March 2010, 7:20 | Category : Click List
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It’s finally Friday!  Here’s to some fabulously feminist plans for the weekend, plus a little bit of light reading to get it kicked off in high fashion!
An Interview with Michael Moore – Poponthepop
A Ban on Race-Based Abortions? – Broadsheet
“Famine Marriages” a Biproduct of Climate Change – IPS News
Mifepristone (aka “The Abortion Pill”) is Ruled Out [...]

Why is AIDS the #1 Killer of Women Worldwide?

Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 10:26 | Category : HIV/AIDS
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HIV/AIDS is typically thought of as a gay man’s disease, despite the fact that the World Health Organization released statistics in November 2009 that show HIV/AIDS is the #1 killer of women ages 15-44 worldwide. Since March 10th is the National Day of HIV/AIDS Awareness for Women and Girls, I thought that it was [...]

US Travel Ban on HIV+ Individuals to End

Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 8:28 | Category : HIV/AIDS
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Today marks the end of an era – and I have to say that I’m happy to see it go. The US travel ban for HIV+ persons is officially over. According to CNN:
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV infection from the list [...]

Questioning the Efficacy of HIV Home Testing

Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 14:07 | Category : Abortion
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A recent article in Poz Magazine about HIV take home tests has me intrigued, and also puzzled. For starters, I didn’t realize that there was even an option to do an HIV test at home. But since November of 2005, the FDA has been considering the possibility of allowing HIV tests to be [...]

HIV/AIDS is #1 Killer of Women

Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 7:51 | Category : Women's Health
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It’s World AIDS Day. I’ll save my little rant about government complacency in stopping the AIDS epidemic, since I’ve already gone off on that tangent may times before. But I do want to get up on my soap box for a minute about how HIV/AIDS is now the #1 killer of women world [...]

Friday Click List

Friday, 23 October 2009, 6:40 | Category : Click List
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AZ Court Rules in Favor of Inmates’ Rights – Feminist Campus
The Link Between Women, Violence, and HIV – My Joy Online
Funding for HIV/AIDS Difficult to Find – SOS Children’s Villages
Medical and Social Aspects of Abortion – Dr. Warren Hern
Check out this GREAT interview with Gloria Feldt where she answers the question, “Why are you a [...]

HIV Vaccine Study Explained

Friday, 25 September 2009, 8:56 | Category : Safe Sex
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So yesterday morning I had a really brief post about the new HIV vaccine study that was announced this week. I asked a lot of questions about how the study was conducted, and NPR did a great job of unraveling the study yesterday afternoon. It made me feel like a smarty when they [...]

HIV Vaccine May Be on the Horizon

Thursday, 24 September 2009, 12:18 | Category : Safe Sex
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The exciting news this morning is that trials of a new HIV vaccine have shown promising results, and an HIV vaccine could be just around the corner. According to CNN:
The new study was conducted in Thailand, with more than 16,000 people between ages 18 and 30 participating. They were all HIV negative at the [...]

As G20 Leaders Meet, AIDS Activists Mourn Loss of HIV Funding

Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 15:30 | Category : Activism, International Issues
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The leaders of the world’s 20 wealthiest nations, called the G20, are preparing to meet later this week in Pittsburgh, AIDS activists from around the world are preparing to demonstrate outside of the meetings to protect the loss of funding for HIV prevention and services. A lot of media coverage during the Bush Administration [...]

Congress Seeks to End Ban on Needle Exchange Funding

Friday, 17 July 2009, 11:13 | Category : Legislative Watch
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And its about damn time. I’ve had enough of this cultural war between science and ideology, where the conservative right use and abuse ‘War on Drugs’ rhetoric to prevent addressing the global HIV/AIDS crisis. Fortunately enough, last Friday, House Appropriations Committee Chair David Obey (D-WI), took the courageous step toward eliminating the 20-year ban on [...]