Communications Consortium Media Center
CCMC manages PLANetWIRE.org, an online newsroom for journalists who want the latest information about international family planning, population, reproductive health and the environment.
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Washington, DC Washington, DC 20005-1754
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Joined OneWorld
25.04.2001
Features
30.05.2006
The numbers are gargantuan. To present the world with a powerful symbol and remind all of the urgent fight against AIDS, the UN has tallied each and every infection since 1997 through its AIDS Clock, which is about to get recalibrated.
more...Image: The UN AIDS Clock counts all those currently living with HIV and maps them around the world. © Communications Consortium Media Center
27.03.2006
A consultation last week in Addis Ababa pledged to move Africa towards better policies to drastically reduce the number of women who undergo unsafe or illegal abortions--currently about 4 million per year.
more...Related topics/regions: [Africa] [Health] [Gender] [Sexuality]
28.09.2005
Federally funded programs used in over a dozen U.S. states to teach students to abstain from sex until marriage are riddled with messages of fear, shame, gender stereotypes, and medical misinformation, according to non-profit organization that monitors U.S. sexual education curricula.
more...Related topics/regions: [United States] [Education] [Health] [Sexuality]
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