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October 2007 update on new publications, actions you can take, and more!
Advocates for Youth's e-News Update
News You Can Use
October is Let's Talk Month!
Let's Talk Month is a national public education campaign celebrated in October and coordinated by Advocates for Youth. Let's Talk Month is an opportunity for community agencies, religious institutions, businesses, schools, media, parent groups and health providers to plan programs and activities which encourage parent/child communication about sexuality.
October 15th is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
Latinos in the United States continue to be disproportionately affected by the HIV and AIDS epidemic, with the second highest AIDS case rate in the nation. (Kaiser Family Foundation. HIV/AIDS Policy Fact Sheet: Latinos and HIV/AIDS. February 2006).
Social, economic, and cultural barriers limit the ability of many Latino youth to receive accurate and adequate information on preventing HIV, STIs, and unwanted pregnancy. Latino youth need 1) comprehensive, accurate information and 2) culturally competent, confidential, and affordable services in order to help stop the spread of HIV.
For more information about Latino youth, please read:
Please visit Advocates for Youth Web sites:
For more information about National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, please visit http://www.nlaad.org/.
Take Action
In America, where up to 95 percent of the annual 800,000 teenage pregnancies are unintended and quality sexual health services for young women are often limited, activists like you must take action to make emergency contraception more widely available for ALL women.
Advocates for Youth and Choice USA urge you to Take Action! It has been one year since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) ruling to make over-the-counter sales of EC available only to women ages 18 and older.
Sign our petition and demand that the FDA rescind its decision and make EC available without a doctor's prescription for ALL women, including young women under age 18.
Our goal is to collect 50,000 signatures by the 2nd anniversary of the FDA's restrictive decision in August 2008.
News of the Absurd
It's NOT Perfectly Normal to Steal Library Books
A woman who checked out It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health from two local libraries, refuses to return copies of the book because she was upset by its content.
"Since I have been sufficiently horrified of the illustrations and the sexually graphic, amoral abnormal contents, I will not be returning the books," JoAnn Karkos wrote the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries last month.
The book, published 14 years ago, uses cartoon illustrations to address topics such as abstinence, and sexually transmitted infections.
Both libraries have reordered the book for their shelves.
Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.wmtw.com/news/14139329/detail.html
New At Advocates
Apply NOW for the Eighth European Study Tour!
Advocates for Youth and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte are sponsoring their eighth European Study Tour, February 29 - March 1, 2008. Apply now to travel to Netherlands, France, and Germany to identify the strategies, programs, and policies that have positively influenced adolescent sexual behavior and outcomes in these countries. The deadline for applications is December 1, 2007.
The tour has been canceled.
Read All About It
October is Let's Talk Month! Read our publications on parent-child communication:
You can help Advocates for Youth with a contribution today. To donate, visit http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/donatetoday.htm
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