Women's Health Journal articles from October 2004

Women's Health Journal archives from October 2004

Ana Maria Pizarro: "Women do not have equal access to the benefits of scientific progress".(Exercising Our Rights: Women Activists Speak Out)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ana Maria Pizarro, an Argentine physician, is the Director of Nicaragua's Servicios Integrales para la Mujer, SI Mujer , a longstanding, alternative healthcare center that provides comprehensive services for women...

"It is scandalous that women continue to die from abortion": Cecilia Olea.(Exercising Our Rights: Women Activists Speak Out)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cecilia Olea is the coordinator of the September 28 Campaign for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean (2003-2005) based in the Centro de la Mujer Peruana "Flora Tristan" ("Flora...

"Capitalism exploits us at work and in our daily lives": Roberta Traspadini.(Exercising Our Rights: Women Activists Speak Out)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brazilian economist Roberta Traspadini has spent the past four years in Mexico working towards her doctorate in Political Science at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma. A critic of Latin America's social reality and...

"HIV+ women demand their rights": Maria Valencia.(Exercising Our Rights: Women Activists Speak Out)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Maria Valencia lives in Calama, a city in the north of Chile with one of the highest rates of HIV transmission among married women. Many of these women were infected by their "stable partner." Such was the case of...

International approaches to human trafficking: The call for a gender-sensitive perspective in international law.(OPINION)
October 1, 2004... "The illegal trade in drugs, arms, intellectual property, people and money is booming. Like the war on terrorism, the fight to control these illicit markets pits governments against agile, stateless and resourceful networks empowered by...

Wanting to exhale: African American women & smoking cessation.(PANORAMA)(Reprint)
October 1, 2004... Do you crave cigarettes when you're stressed out? Bored? After eating? Or do you just light up with the girls? Whether you're a two-pack-a-day or social smoker, it's time to kick the habit. Here's what you need to know and do to quit smoking....

More reasons to quit: facts about women and smoking.(PANORAMA)(Report)
October 1, 2004... While the following information focuses on an industrialized country, the United States, rising rates of tobacco addiction among women in our region foreshadow similar trends in smoking-related deaths and disease. From the American Lung...

Tobacco makes poor women poorer.(INWAT)
October 1, 2004... The International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) is a global network of tobacco control specialists dedicated to improving health and achieving greater equality among women and girls in the world by eliminating tobacco use and...

Empowerment, health and aging in Mexican women.(SHARING OUR EXPERIENCES)
October 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction Inequity between women and men has been examined repeatedly in modern times, mainly through analysis of the power relationships between genders. These studies note the common subordination of the...

Maternal mortality in Mexico: Still a concern.(YUCATAN)(Report)
October 1, 2004... It may be the twenty-first century, but women's reproductive health issues still sit on the back burner in the Yucatan. Although legislation already requires that women's health issues receive the appropriate attention, law is not translating...