What we’re reading elsewhere online
The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) just released a 64 page international report, Investing in Reproductive Justice For All (link gets you a PDF)
Empowering women to protect themselves: Promoting the female condom in Zimbabwe, from UNAIDS
Lynn Harris at Salon’s Broadsheet writes about 10 reasons abortion must be covered by health insurance
And here on Akimbo:
Khushbu Srivastava blogged about the end of penal code 377 in India and the activists who made it happen in Decriminalizing Homosexual Sex in India: An Inspiring Movement
We called our Senators on Wednesday to encourage them to defeat the Hatch amendment
IWHC President Adrienne Germain to spoke about the status of Women’s Health Globally at the World Affairs Council of Connecticut
We put up two posts about the 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR) in Beijing, one about the successes and struggles with the Youth Declaration, plus the diary of IWHC staff member Jayne Chu
Lori Adelman wrote all about the Global Health Initiative and the newly released report on global aid strategies
We were excited to cap off the week with President Obama lifting the ban on HIV-positive travelers coming into the United States
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