Tag Archives: HIV
Obama administration rescinds Bush’s “conscience clause”
TweetIt looks like the days of the anti-choice pharmacist are over; now, they’re just plain ole pharmacists. The fantastic news slipped past our radar late last week: After two years of struggling to balance the rights of patients against the beliefs of health-care workers, the Obama administration on Friday finally rescinded most of a federal [...]
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What We Missed
TweetAs noted in Chloe’s post, anti-choice New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is angry again because women don’t want to be breeding machines. Amanda and Jill call him out on it brilliantly. Funny of the Day: A retweet of gay conservative pundit has folks saying Sarah Palin is a “friend of the gay community.” It’s [...]
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Stand Strong with Youth on World AIDS Day
TweetThis is a guest post for World AIDS Day by Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Sarah Onyango, Regional Director for Africa and Dr. Linda Valencia, Guatemala Program Manager. Just outside the sprawling city of Nairobi, Kenya, sits Kibera, one of the largest urban slums in Africa. In Kibera, most families live in shacks with dirt floors and [...]
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The Pope’s recent gesture is not an about face on HIV prevention
TweetThis weekend, the Pope has drawn wide praise after comments he made in the recently released, Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times, that support condoms in some circumstances. But I agree with the Christian Science Monitor’s assertion; this is evolution, not revolution. Let us first look at [...]
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U.S. organization paying HIV-positive women in Kenya to get IUDs