Women's Health Journal articles from January 2003

Women's Health Journal archives from January 2003

War is a Biological Weapon.(From The Coordinating Office)
January 1, 2003... It is the firm belief of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network that wars are the most damaging biological attack on humanity. It makes no difference if they are called "clean" or "dirty," "intelligent" or "preventive," if...

Defending reproductive choice: Nicaragua and Chile.(Opinion)
January 1, 2003... After being raped, nine-year-old Rosita was not only left with sexually transmitted infections, she also became pregnant. But the reproductive capacity of this young Nicaraguan girl was important only for those insensitive to the issue of...

Marta Maria Blandon and Lorna Norori: "we have successfully challenged two states".(Opinion)
January 1, 2003... How did you find out about Rosita's situation, and what was the position of the women's movement? Marta: We found out about the case of this nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl who had become pregnant as the result of rape through the Costa...

Feminist working group on abortion formed in Chile.(Opinion)
January 1, 2003... The Mesa Feminista de Trabajo sobre Aborto (Feminist Working Group on Abortion) is the initiative of a group of women interested in debating and analyzing this issue in a country with one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world....

A preventable tragedy: maternal mortality.(News And Meetings)
January 1, 2003... In this year's Call for Action for May 28, International Day of Action for Women's Health, the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network has taken up an historic priority of the women's movement, urging groups and organizations...

For safe motherhood.(News And Meeting)
January 1, 2003... The Safe Motherhood Initiative is a global effort to reduce death and illness associated with pregnancy and childbirth launched at a conference in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1987. It is co-sponsored by a group of international agencies that founded the...

Women's access to health campaign: Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights.(News And Meetings)
January 1, 2003... From 2003 to 2005, the Coordination Office of the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) will coordinate the Women's Access to Health Campaign, "Health for All--Health for Women" in close collaboration with the People's Health...

Health sector reform in Latin America is not addressing gender inequalities.(News And Meetings)
January 1, 2003... have prioritized institutional and financial changes in health systems. She also observes that in most countries the application of gender perspective is limited, particularly on crucial issues such as the determining factors of health, access...

Just say "no war!".(News And Meetings)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The world continues to speak out against the brutal invasion of Iraq by the United States and allied nations who turn a deaf ear to international demands to halt this unjust and illegal action, the unilateral attack by a coalition armed with an...

Bush's battles.(News And Meetings)
January 1, 2003... The President of the United States launched his war to "liberate" the world a long time ago. His outrageous fundamentalism has convinced him that he has been chosen to tell the world's population how we should live and die. A self-made Messiah,...

Women and war.(News And Meetings)
January 1, 2003... Women and Armed Conflict A fact sheet disseminated by the United Nations at the end of 2002 identified 30 countries and areas in conflict and post-conflict situations, including: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina,...

Programs and strategies: renewing our commitments: LACWHN. (Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network).(News And Meetings)
January 1, 2003... In early April, the Board of Directors of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network met in Santiago, Chile for their first annual meeting of 2003. These few days of intense work began with a warm welcome for Emma Reyes, our new...

Recent and upcoming meetings.(Group News And Events)
January 1, 2003... CRIS 6, Congreso Regional de Informacion en Ciencias de la Salud May 7-9, 2003 Puebla, Mexico The central topic of the 6th Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information is, "Knowing to Decide: Scientific and Technical...

Treating violence.(Group News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Argentina's Mujeres al Oeste (Women to the East), a feminist organization committed to the promotion of human rights, recently launched their "Interdisciplinary Service Specializing in Treatment, Prevention and Training in Violence Against...

On masculinity.(Group News)
January 1, 2003... The video "Minha Vida de Joao/La vida de Juan" (John's Life) was co-produced by the Brazilian groups PROMUNDO, ECOS, PAPAl and Mexico's Salud y Genero (Gender and Health) with support from the IPPF and PAHO. Part of the series "Working with...

Testimonies on health care.(Group News)
January 1, 2003... Maria Hamlin Zuniga of the Nicaraguan group CISAS is the author of Voces (Voices) which includes numerous testimonies presented during the First People's Health Assembly in December 2000. These reflections on health and access to services span...

Imagining women.(Group News)
January 1, 2003... A project of the International Museum of Women in San Francisco, California, Imaging Ourselves invites women aged approximately 20 to 30 to use a range of literary and visual format to answer the questions, "How do you see the world? How do you...

Our herstories.(Group News)
January 1, 2003... Chile's Foro Red de Salud y Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (Forum Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) recently published a newsletter that recounts the history of the Foro and describes some of the network's most important...

My body, my health! On the control of women's bodies and women's health.
January 1, 2003... Throughout history a wide range of mechanisms have been used to exercise control and dominion over the bodies of women, preventing us from fully exercising our sexual and reproductive rights. Our bodies have been invaded, experimented upon and...

Taking back our bodies: a brief history of women's health.(My Body, My Health!)
January 1, 2003... The "dis-appropriation" of women's bodies has taken place over the past three centuries and was particularly brutal in the Middle Ages (appropriately known as the "Dark Ages") and also as the result of Cartesian dichotomization. This essay...

The Medicalization of women's bodies in the era of globalization.(My Body, My Health!)
January 1, 2003... In this article, I would like to share some ideas about the medicalization of health and specifically of women's bodies and health as an aspect of globalization. The patriarchal system is effectively based on the control and appropriation...

Reclaiming menopause: another look at hormone replacement therapy and the medicalization of women's bodies.(My Body, My Health!)
January 1, 2003... A media frenzy erupted when the news broke in July 2002 that an U.S. government study of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was halted midway because study participants were at a significantly increased risk for breast cancer, heart attack,...

Hormone therapy: health protection lessons from the Women's Health initiative.(My Body, My Health!)
January 1, 2003... In July 2002, the [U.S.] researchers conducting the Women's Health Initiative (WII) halted their large clinical trial to evaluate menopausal hormone therapy (HT). Rather than preventing diseases in aging women, as many had claimed, the study...

Informing choices: expanding access to emergency contraception in Peru.(My Body, My Health!)
January 1, 2003... Since 1998, CHANGE has been working with colleagues in Peru to expand the reproductive health options available to women. Their work has included conducting secondary research and analysis on the constraints women face in exercising...

Improving women's lives through volunteerism.(Partners Of The Americas)
January 1, 2003... As the people-to-people aspect of U.S. President John E Kennedy's economic aid initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean, Partners of the Americas (Partners) began forging hemispheric ties and friendships in 1964. Today, Partners is a...

Women's Access to Health Campaign: Health for All, Health for Women! Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights, WGNRR.(Documents)
January 1, 2003... In this special section of the Women's Health Journal, we include a series of declarations defending the right to health as a civil right. The first document provides the background for the May 28 Call to Action of our long-time colleagues, the...

Declaration of Alma-Ata. (International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, (Kazakstan) USSR, September 6-12, 1978).(Documents)
January 1, 2003... International Conference on Primary Health Care Alma-Ata, (Kazakstan) USSR, September 6-12, 1978 The International Conference on Primary Health Care, meeting in Alma-Ata this twelfth day of September in the year nineteen hundred and...

People's Charter for Health.(Documents)
January 1, 2003... People's Health Movement The idea of a People's Health Assembly (PHA) has been discussed for more than a decade. In 1998 a number of organizations launched the PHA process and started to plan a large international Assembly meeting, held in...

Declaration of the 2nd International Forum in Defense of the People's Health.(Documents)
January 1, 2003... Health is a human right and a fundamental aspect of the right to life. Health is also a duty of the State, and it is the State's obligation to fulfill its international commitments. Health is a right in and of itself and not the means to...

Con-spirando.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Colectivo Con-spirando (Chile), no. 42, December 2002. This issue of the Con-spirando Collective's "Latin American magazine of Ecofeminism, Spirituality and Theology" addresses women's life cycles, including sexuality, the mother-daughter...

WHP Review.(Women's Health Project)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Women's Health Project (South Africa), no 42, Winter 2002. HIV/AIDS, abortion care and maternal health are the leading topics in this issue of the quarterly journal of the Women's Health Project. This is also the last issue for managing...

La Boletina.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Puntos de Encuentro (Nicaragua), no. 52, August-December 2002. The newsletter of the Nicaraguan group Puntos de Encuentro (Meeting Places) is disseminated widely throughout Central America and in other Latin American countries. This issue...

ICW News.(International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (United Kingdom), no. 22, January 2003. The newsletter of the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) is produced in English and Spanish. This issue reports on the...

Jornal da Rede Feminista de Saude.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Rede Feminista de Saude (Brazil), no. 25, June 2002. Women, health and work, and feminist perspectives on biotechnology are the two main topics of this issue of the regular publication of RedeSaude. * For more information, contact...

Maria, Maria.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... UNIFEM (Brazil), vol. 4, no. 4. Produced by the Brazilian division of UNIFEM, this issue of Maria, Maria takes a look at the life and working conditions of domestic workers. * For more information, contact the editor, e-mail:...

Conscience.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Catholics for a Free Choice (USA), Winter 2002/2003. This "news journal of Catholic opinion" is a publication of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC). In this recent issue, experts share their opinions on China's demographic policy and the...

Reproductive Health Matters.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Elsevier Science Ltd. (United Kingdom), vol. 10, no. 20, November 2002. Reproductive Health Matters takes on health sector reform with an emphasis on how these processes impact sexual and reproductive health services. * For more...

Meridiam.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer (Spain), no. 25, 2nd quarter, 2002. This beautiful and up-to-date publication of the Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer features a wide range of topics, including a series of articles on the feminization of aging,...

From Johannesburg.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 26 to September 4, 2002. During the last half of 2002, a number of publications produced special editions on what some have termed "Rio minus 10."...

Center for Reproductive Rights Bringing Rights to Bear: an Analysis of the Work of UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive and Sexual Rights.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... New York: CRR and University of Toronto International Programme on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law, 2002. 291 p. The Center for Reproductive Rights (formerly the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, see sidebar, pp. 28) and the...

Catalina Wainerman Familia y trabajo. Practicas y representaciones.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Cuaderno del CENEP, no. 53, Argentina: Centre de Estudios de Poblacion, CENEP, 2002. 102 p. Family and Work: Practice and Representation shares the preliminary results of a study applying a gender perspective to the changes in family...

Comite de America Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer Derechos Sexuales, Derechos Reproductivos, Derechos Humanos. III Seminario Regional.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Lima: CLADEM, 2002. 302 p. Sexual Rights, Reproductive Rights, Human Rights is collection of presentations by participants at CLADEM's 3rd Regional Seminar, held November 5-7, 2001. As the title indicates, the seminar analyzed and defended...

Fatima Oliveira, et al. Olhar sobre a Midia.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Belo Horizonte, Brazil: Mazza Edicoes, 2002. 213 p. Our Eyes on the Media is the result of a project analyzing how the mainstream press portrays issues related to bioethics, HIV/AIDS, sexuality, abortion and human reproduction. Stories on...

Maria Ladi Londono Entre certezas e incertidumbres que no se contraponen.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Cali, Colombia: ISEDER, 2002. 299 p. Author Maria Ladi Londono has long promoted and defended sexual and reproductive rights as human rights. In her most recent publication, this feminist psychologist and educator shares her deeply humanist...

Carpeta Informativa por el Centenario de la Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud.(Other Material)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Serie Genero y Reforma de la Salud, Chile: PAHO/WHO, 2002. The Pan American Health Organization's regional project on Gender Equity and Health Sector Reform seeks to promote gender equity in the process of health sector reform currently...

World Health Organization Shape the Future of Life: Healthy Environments for Children.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... World Health Day, April 7, 2003. This Toot Kit for Organizers provides materials for those organizing community activities around World Health Day, which is "a springboard for raising awareness, stimulating debate, motivating national...

Gender and Health Sector Reform.(Resources On-line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... With the support of the Ford Foundation in Chile and Peru, the Pan American Health Organization's Gender and Health Unit (formerly the Women, Health and Development Program) has recently launched a website on Gender and Health Sector Reform at:...

Gender and Health Advocacy Kits. (from the Pan-American Health Organization).(Resources On-line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... PAHO's Gender and Health Unit has also developed a series of information kits, the Gender and Health Advocacy Kits. These useful materials address different aspects linked to the concepts of gender and advocacy and can be used in educational...

Gender and AIDS gateway. (UNIFEM's website).(Resources On-line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... UNIFEM, in collaboration with UNAIDS, recently launched a new gateway on HIV/AIDS and gender at www. GenderandAIDS.org in an effort to provide a gender perspective on the epidemic. Bearing in mind that 50% of all adults living with the virus...

Networking women.(Resources On-line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... European and North American WomenAction (ENAWA) is a network of media, ICT, information and advocacy organizations dedicated to strengthening and integrating a feminist analysis in the information and media landscape in relation to social...

Isis Internacional's gateway. (Mujeres Hoy).(Resources On-line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Mujeres Hoy (Women Today), the new gateway of Chile's Isis Internacional--www.mujereshoy.com--covers a broad spectrum of topics related to health, sexuality, family, work, legislation, violence, human rights, politics, women's movements,...

Chilean women on-line. (Mujered, the website of the Centro Cultural Aporte Kolektivo Independiente).(Resources On-line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Developed by the Centro Cultural Aporte Kolektivo Independiente (AKI, Independent Kolektive Contribution Cultural Center), the website Mujered (WomenWeb) provides information on activities, resources, documentation, funding and news on the...

List-serves and virtual fora.(Resources On-Line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Consorcio Latinoamericano de Anticoncepcion de Emergencia (CLAE, Latin American Consortium on Emergency Contraception) has launched a new list-serve to facilitate the exchange of resources and information on the topic of emergency...

Latina leadership. (MANA's English language website).(Resources On-line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... MANA, "a National Latina Organization," encourages leadership among Latina women in the United States, teaching them about their rights and providing them with information, services and advocacy training. * For more information, visit...

Virtual information on women's rights. (Derechos Humanos Mujer, a website of the Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos).(Resources On-line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Derechos Humanos Mujer (Women's Human Rights) is a promising new web page of the Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH, Inter-American Human Rights Institute). This site is part of the IIDH's Sistema de Informacion Regional sobre...

Women's communication. (Peru's Milenia Radio).(Resources On-line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Peru's Milenia Radio has distilled its long experience in women's communication into a new website with news, editorials, and an analysis of social and political events in Peru and the region. This radio also provides reports for international...

Youth website contest.(Resources On-line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... UNESCO has announced that it will award prizes of US$1,500, U$1,000 and US$500 in a contest to support websites in Latin America and the Caribbean that provide useful information for young people about issues such as sexual education, the...

RIMA: Argentina women networking.(Resources On-Line)(Red Informativa de Mujeres de Argentina)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... RIMA-lista is a Spanish-language list-serve coordinated by RIMA, the Red Informativa de Mujeres de Argentina (Argentine Women's Information Network) based in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina. Thanks to the participation and collaboration...