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December 2006 update on new publications, actions you can take, and more!
Advocates for Youth's e-News Update
Youth Activist Network Updates
Coming Soon! New Action Lists for Youth Activists!
In January 2007, Advocates for Youth will launch an important listserv for youth activists: the International Policy Action List.
This list will provide youth activists with updates and information on important international policy goals, activities, and actions that impact adolescent sexual and reproductive health. The list will also provide you with an opportunity to Take Action in support of science-based sexual and reproductive health issues.
Following is a brief description of the list:
The International Policy Action List will cover international sexual and reproductive health issues such as the PATHWAY (Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth) Act, our bill to end the ineffective abstinence-until-marriage set-aside; the impact of the policy priorities of PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) on young people's access to effective HIV prevention programs; as well as the annual appropriations (funding) process for foreign aid.
Sign up for the International Policy Action List!
Take Action
Support Emergency Contraception in Your Community!
The approval of emergency contraception (Plan B®) for nonprescription status was a huge victory for women 18 years and older. But we can't stop there! Every woman deserves access to quality and equitable healthcare - including access to necessary reproductive health care without embarrassment or intimidation. Young women under 18 still face major barriers to accessing accurate information about emergency contraception (EC) and encounter limitations and restrictions to receiving EC when it's most needed.
Advocates for Youth urges you to Take Action! Send a letter to your city or campus newspaper stressing the importance of access to EC for all women and urging health centers and pharmacists to make emergency contraception available in your city and/or on your campus.
 Take action now!
Say What?!
Birth control "demeaning to women?"
The Bush administration has appointed Dr. Eric Keroack as the new Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this position, Dr. Keroack will be charged with overseeing Title X - family planning programs under the Public Health Service Act.
Dr. Keroack currently serves as medical director for A Woman's Concern, a crisis pregnancy center which prohibits staff from encouraging the use of contraceptive drugs or devices. He also serves on the Medical Advisory Council of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, an organization that promotes abstinence-only-until-marriage programs and opposes comprehensive sex education programs.
Advocates for Youth, along with other reproductive health organizations, has sent a letter to HHS encouraging the withdrawal of Dr. Keroack's appointment.
To read the letter, please click here.
To read more about Dr. Keroack, click here.
It Could Take 4 to 5 Years to Cure Ted Haggard of Being Gay
During an interview on Larry King Live, James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family talked about his "close friend" evangelical leader Ted Haggard, having a sexual relationship with a male prostitute. When asked about helping Haggard, Dobson said, "...I just don't have the time to do that. And I called my board of directors, we talked about it at length and they were unanimous in asking me not to do that, because this could take four or five years and I just have too many other things going on."
To read more, please click here.
On the Town
Join the Global Fund
Hope Spreads Faster than AIDS is a new campaign that allows individuals to show their support for the Global Fund's life saving work fighting AIDS. Sign the Declaration of Hope, and your location and message will be added to an interactive map along with thousands of supporters from around the world. Then, show the world that hope spreads faster than AIDS by inviting your friends to join you and literally watch your hope spread across the globe.
For more information please visit: http://www.jointheglobalfund.org/hopespreads.asp
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