Issues That Matter - EC After OTC

Issues That Matter - EC After OTC

Wednesday, March 21 - Wednesday, March 21
6:30 - 8:00pm

Join us for March's Issues That Matter - EC After OTC to discuss how to fill in the remaining emergency contraception gaps.

Issues That Matter: EC After OTC

Who:
Christina Tenuta, Director, Emergency Contraception Program at NARAL Pro-Choice New York & the national Back Up Your Birth Control Campaign
Galen Leigh Sherwin, Acting Director of the Reproductive Rights Project at New York Civil Liberties Union
Aishia Glasford, Policy Analyst at National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Nicole Lawrence, Peer Educator for NARAL Pro-Choice New York's Teen Outreach Reproductive Challenge Program

What:
Join us as we learn about the remaining emergency contraception barriers for undocumented women, those under the age of 18 and those facing obstacles at the pharmacy.

When:
Wednesday, March 21
6:30 until 8:00 pm

Where:
470 Park Avenue South, 7th floor
Located between 31st and 32nd Streets

Please RSVP by March 19th to Debbie at 212-343-0114, ext. 3525 or djohnson@prochoiceny.org. This will be a very popular event and space is limited. RSVP is required.

Contact Debbie to RSVP or for more information.

Back Up Your Birth Control Day March 20th!

The Back Up Your Birth Control Campaign is committed to spreading the word about emergency contraception, a safe and effective method of back up birth control.

This year, on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 the sixth annual Back Up Your Birth Control Day of Action, a coalition of more than 100 women’s health and medical organizations will undertake dozens of educational activities nationwide to send an important message to teens: back up your birth control with emergency contraception.

Since the FDA approved OTC sales of EC for adult women, but kept the prescription requirement for teens younger than 18, the Back Up Your Birth Control Campaign understands that promoting knowledge and use of this safe and effective back up birth control method is even more important than ever. That’s why the Back Up Your Birth Control Campaign is using thousands of BUYBC campaign materials to mobilize activists around the country to educate the media and medical community and host Back Up Your Birth Control EC education activities on college campuses, with legislators, and for public health officials.

Please visit www.backupyourbirthcontrol.org and our new teen site www.ineedec.info. EC education Materials are available for order on our website.

PPNYC & Haven Fundraiser March 9th at Galapagos

Happy Hour at Keats

The next Repro Health Happy Hour will be tomorrow, Wednesday February 28th at Keats on 2nd Ave between 44th and 45th streets.

Hope to see you there!

Guttmacher at the CSW

In honor of the 51st annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and in recognition of the 2007 theme "The elimination of all forms of violence and discrimination against the girl-child," the Guttmacher Institute and our partners invite you to participate in a parallel event.

Abortion Providers’ Attitudes toward Women
March 5th, 12:00-2:45 p.m., UN Church Center, 777 UN Plaza, 10th Floor
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Join an international panel of experts for presentations of new evidence and an interactive discussion on access to abortion, provider attitudes and discrimination and the potential of new technologies to empower women.

Expert Panelists:
Akinrole Bankole, Ph.D., Director of International Research, Guttmacher Institute, “Women and abortion providers in Nigeria and Uganda.”
Leonel Arguello Irigoyen, M.D., Nicaraguan Society for General Medicine, “Denial of therapeutic abortion in Nicaragua - the perspective of health-care providers.”
Beverly Winikoff, M.D., M.P.H., President , Gynuity Health Projects, “Giving Women Choices: Access to New Technologies in Abortion.”
Marianne Mollmann, Advocacy Director, Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, “The Second Assault: Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion after Rape in Mexico.”
Laura Villa Torres, Youth Coalition and Ipas Mexico, “Rape, unwanted pregnancy and abortion - young people's perspectives in Mexico.”

Moderated by Linda Prine, M.D., Associate Professor of Family Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Beth Israel Residency in Urban Family Practice; Medical Director of the Reproductive Health Access Project; Trainer and Abortion Provider at Planned Parenthood of New York City.

Sexual Violence against Young Women
March 6th, 1:15-2:45 p.m., Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, UN Secretariat Building
OPEN TO REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS OF THE CSW ONLY

Adolescent girls are subject to sexual violence in schools, their homes and neighborhoods, within marriage, during conflicts and in refugee camps. For many, their first sexual experience will be forced. Many will suffer in silence.

Expert Panelists:
Pamela Delargy, Chief, Humanitarian Response Unit, UNFPA, “Young Women: Under Assault.”
Ann M. Moore, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Guttmacher Institute, “How wanted was it? New evidence on young women’s experiences at sexual debut from Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Janet Walsh, Deputy Director, Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, “Counting the pills but ignoring the context: how gender-based violence is impacting women’s access and adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Zambia.”

Moderated by Sharon L. Camp, PhD, President & CEO, Guttmacher Institute.

Happy hour this Wednesday!

The next Repro Health Happy Hour will be this Wednesday, February 28th. We're thinking near the UN (by all means, please post suggestions for Midtown East bar recs) to see if we can convince any of our international colleagues in town for the Commission on the Status of Women to swing on by after their meetings.

Sorry for the late notice, the short month snuck up on us! Location announcement coming soon...

As always, 6-9pm.

Myra & Leila

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

News about the next Repro Health Happy Hour is coming soon! Stay tuned..