U.N. Women opened its doors on Jan. 3 without any fanfare. The new “superagency” still lacks a budget, staff completion and detailed programs. Observers are now eyeing a delayed, formal launch in late February.
Some advocates at last week’s International AIDS Conference greeted news of the results of an HIV gel coolly, saying more was needed than a “medicalized” response to an epidemic that travels a social pathway of infringed women’s rights.
Amnesty International parted ways with Gita Sahgal, its leading gender researcher, on April 9. In February, Saghal began pushing Amnesty to explain its embrace of a former Guantanamo detainee she calls a Taliban supporter.
On Dec. 1, the 20th annual World AIDS Day, health advocates are raising the alarm about the quadrupling of HIV-AIDS among American women and the failure of the U.S. heath care system to address this growing pandemic.
The Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday upholding a law banning some abortions after 12 weeks, without a health exception, dismayed reproductive health advocates.
The new director of the World Health Organization has made maternal and reproductive health issues a top priority for the global health agency. But critics say that U.S. policies hinder those efforts and funding still falls short of ambitions.
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