Supreme Court to Decide Legality of Anti-Prostitution Policy for AIDS Relief
Abortion advocates blame the Helms amendment and the Mexico City policy for contributing to abortion stigma — likewise some HIV/AIDS advocates blame a PEPFAR anti-prostitution policy for contributing to the stigma that’s associated with prostitution. Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear opening arguments in the case of USAID v. AOSI — a case challenging [...]
Group Claims Obama Admin Foreign Policy and UN Pushing Sexual Rights Agenda
An International Family advocacy group has launched a campaign to expose diplomatic pressure directed toward poor developing countries to advance sexual rights including withholding humanitarian aid to assure it is done. Family Watch International in collaboration with the Foundation for African Culture and Heritage, and other pro-family organizations released a documentary Cultural Imperialism: The Sexual Rights Agenda on You Tube [...]
UN Women Allowed to Join UNAIDS
When UN Women reached its one year anniversary last year, it was met with a scathing review in The Nation. Long-time UN advocate Barbara Crossette detailed the travails of the new UN agency. Internal issues, such as employee in-fighting, plagued UN Women, as well as external. Backers felt governments and UN higher-ups lacked respect for the women’s agency. Paula Donovan of [...]
The End of the MDGs?
This morning the Secretary General, and Rebeca Grynspan, Associate Administrator of UNDP, and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser on the MDGs, held a press conference to report on the progress towards achieving the MDG’s. The SG described Sachs and Grynspan as his “top development experts and senior advisers.” They cited a report issued this week [...]
Shielding Youth Through Exposure?
Just in time for the upcoming conference on HIV/AIDS, UNICEF, UNAIDS, and a host of other UN agencies released a report yesterday, entitled “Opportunity in Crisis,” on preventing HIV/AIDS among adolescents aged 10-24. While the report is relatively extensive in outlining the varied reasons for the prevalence of HIV infection among different populations of young [...]
The Need for a Real Prevention Revolution
Last week UNAIDS hosted a Commission on AIDS Prevention in Cape Town, South Africa. As part of the programming, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) partnered with UNAIDS in sponsoring a “condom march” through the streets of Khayelitsha, Cape Town’s largest and fastest-growing suburb. In a press release, UNAIDS explained that the condom march & distribution was [...]
More on the HPV vaccination scheme
The flurry of interest on the HPV story continues. Medical doctors have been in touch to reinforce the problem of “false promises” I mentioned in my last post. Here is an excellent summary of the medical problem with mandating child HPV vaccination from the Catholic Medical Association (CMA). They oppose mandatory vaccination on several counts, [...]
In Zimbabwe, A Step in the Right Direction
UNFPA and UNAIDS recently released a report on HIV/AIDS prevention in Zimbabwe. The report outlined the reason for Zimbabwe surprisingly successful drop in HIV prevalence, from 26% to 14% in the years 1997 – 2009, as largely due to a change in sexual behaviors. The most significant cause of the decline was seen to be [...]