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South Africa Resists Anti-AIDS Plan for Mothers

By WeNews Staff & no-author ● Arts & Culture ● December 22, 2001

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Adult Diabetes Epidemic Among Black Women

By Siobhan Benet ● Arts & Culture ● December 18, 2001

Women comprise more than half of late-onset diabetes sufferers and more than half of them are African American–at special risk, doctors say, because many are overweight. The enemy is stress and diets that may be comforting but are also high in fat.

High Priority To Anti-Abortion Anthrax Mail

By Frederick Clarkson ● Health & Science ● November 9, 2001

Investigators who once dismissed anti-abortion anthrax threats now admit it’s possible that domestic white supremacist terrorists can be sophisticated and well funded, not dolts working in a back woods shack, boiling up anthrax in a black cauldron.

Women at Ground Zero: Rescuers, Rebuilders

By Maya Dollarhide ● Arts & Culture ● October 14, 2001

This is the first in a series on the women toiling at Ground Zero in the ashes of the World Trade Center. The women profiled are helping the city recover and rebuild–police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, construction workers. They are us.

Bunch Pushes Racism Conference to Include Sexism

By Alysia Tate ● Arts & Culture ● September 6, 2001

The international conference on racism has largely overlooked sexism and how the intersection of racism with gender bias can be doubly debilitating for women of color around the world. A handful of women reminded world leaders not to ignore gender.

Women’s Heart Disease Overlooked, Undertreated

By Suzanne Batchelor ● Arts & Culture ● August 12, 2001

Women’s vulnerability to heart disease has long been overshadowed by cancer concerns. Yet heart disease is responsible for half of all women’s deaths, and it is unclear if hormone replacements are an effective preventative.

Social Security Changes Could Hurt Women

By Ann Moline ● Employment ● August 5, 2001

The first report by a presidential Social Security commission states that 15 years from now, the system will be in financial straits. Congressional Democrats and women’s advocates say it exaggerates the problems and would especially hurt women.

False E-mail Petitions Spread Disinformation, Distrust

By Joy Pincus ● Health & Science ● August 2, 2001

E-mail petitions and communications have been a useful tool for grassroots activism worldwide, particularly in the women’s and human rights movements. But junk and hoax petitions are frustrating activists and tarnishing online activism.

Drug Industry Seeks Viagra-Like Remedy for Women

By Sonia Shah ● Health & Science ● July 24, 2001

Citing near-epidemic levels of female sexual problems, drug companies are rushing to find Viagra’s equivalent in sales of creams, gels, nasal sprays and even a remote-controlled orgasm implant. Critics see the medicalization of human sexuality.

Peruvian to Senate: Gag Rule Means More Abortions

By Sarah Stewart Taylor ● Health & Science ● July 20, 2001

Bush administration relents, permitting a Peruvian activist muzzled by the global gag rule to speak about abortion–but only before Congress. She still may not speak in her own country. She said the gag rule will not reduce abortion, but increase it.