EngenderHealth is a 501 c 3 nonprofit organization based in New York , internationally active in contraception ... countries around the world. ref name EngenderHealth AR http www.engenderhealth.org about arindex.html EngenderHealth 2006 Annual Report ref Mission statement From its http www.engenderhealth.org about mission.php website EngenderHealth works to improve the health and well being of people in the poorest ... of its existence, EngenderHealth has undergone changes in name and mission, reflecting internal ... Pine title EngenderHealth at 60 publisher EngenderHealth url http www.webcitation.org 5L5QfCQ6T ... Minilaparotomy for Female Sterilization An Illustrated Guide for Service Providers publisher EngenderHealth ... Handbook publisher EngenderHealth url http www.engenderhealth.org pubs family planning nsv curriculum.php ... web title Contraceptive Sterilization Global Issues and Trends publisher EngenderHealth url http ... than 30 countries. ref name sterilization factbook cite web title Post Abortion Care publisher EngenderHealth ... name cope cite web title COPE Client Oriented, Provider Efficient publisher EngenderHealth url http ... EngenderHealth url http www.engenderhealth.org our work gender men as partners.php accessdate 2008 ... Paper Facilitative Supervision publisher EngenderHealth url http www.engenderhealth.org pubs workpap ... publisher EngenderHealth url http www.engenderhealth.org pubs quality facilitative supervision handbook.php ... mission had expanded beyond sterilization, in 2001 the organization changed its name to EngenderHealth ... that year, with additional support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, EngenderHealth published ... web title Infection Prevention Course publisher EngenderHealth url http www.engenderhealth.org pubs ..., EngenderHealth was awarded the United Nations Population Award for institutions for its contribution ... of this honor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared July 1, 2002, as EngenderHealth Day in New York City , and presented a certificate to the organization. ref name engenderhealth day cite web ... more details
Voluntary Counseling and Testing VCT for HIV usually involves two counseling sessions one prior to taking the test known as pre test counseling and one following the HIV test when the results are given, often referred to as post test counseling . Counseling focuses on the infection HIV , the disease AIDS , the test, and positive behavior change. VCT has become popular in many parts of Africa as a way for a person to learn their HIV status. VCT centers and counselors often use rapid HIV tests that require a drop of blood or some cell biology cell s from the inside of one s cheek the tests are cheap, require minimal training, and provide accurate results in about 15 minutes. http www.who.int hiv topics vct en index.html World Health Organization, HIV Department Testing and Counseling page br http www.unaids.org en Policies Testing default.asp UNAIDS Policy Position HIV Testing and Counseling Category HIV AIDS http www.engenderhealth.org aids engenderhealth aids response.html EngenderHealth s Response to HIV AIDS med stub ... more details
The Fistula Care Project is a five year, 70 million global project working on obstetric fistula in Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia. The project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development USAID and managed by EngenderHealth . Vision From its http www.fistulacare.org web site Our vision is to address the enormous backlog of women awaiting life altering fistula repair, ensuring that they receive timely and quality care from trained providers. At the same time, we work to remove barriers to emergency obstetric care that lead to fistula in the first place. Work The Fistula Care Project is focused on Improving the capacity of hospitals to provide better care for women with fistula Training doctors and surgical teams in fistula repair surgery Preventing new cases of fistula by improving the quality of emergency obstetric care and increasing access to family planning Collecting and analyzing data in order to improve the quality of existing fistula services Under Fistula Care and previous USAID funding, the project recently announced that http www.fistulacare.org pages in action highlights.php over 10,000 women had been treated. Related links http www.fistulacare.org Fistula Care s web site USAID EngenderHealth http www.fistulacare.org pages in action stories digital stories.php Digital stories of fistula survivors also on http www.youtube.com view play list?p 17603E3034804050 YouTube Category Obstetrics ... more details
Hugh Everett Moore 1887 1972 was the president and founder of the Dixie Cup Company , manufacturer of the Dixie Cup . ref http diglib.princeton.edu ead getEad?eadid MC153&kw ref Non business activities Moore was a founding member of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies in 1940 and chairman of the executive committee of the League of Nations Association U.S. from 1940 1943. In 1944 Moore founded the Hugh Moore Fund for International Peace. It was established to fund organizations involved in population control. The Fund published Moore s pamphlet The Population Bomb in 1954. Moore served as president of Americans United for World Organization in 1944. Additionally, Moore was a consultant to the State Department at the United Nations Conference in 1945. Moore was a member of the American Association for the United Nations from 1945 1954. He served as treasurer of Committee for the Marshall Plan in 1948. Moore was a member of the Atlantic Union Committee from 1949 1960 and Chair of the Executive Committee from 1949 to 1951. He was chairman of the finance committee of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation from 1951 to 1952 and chairman of the fund raising arm of the UN education program in 1955. He was a member of the U.S. Committee on NATO from 1961 to 1972. Moore was chairman of the board of the Population Reference Bureau , vice president of International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1964, president of the EngenderHealth Association for Voluntary Sterilization for 1964 1969 and co founder of the Population Action International Population Crisis Committee in 1965. Awards Hugh Moore received an honorary degree of Humane Letters from Lafayette College in 1961. References Reflist External links http www.canals.org Visitors Hugh Moore Park http ww2.lafayette.edu library special dixie bio.html http academicmuseum.lafayette.edu special dixie bio.html Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Moore, Hugh ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH ... more details
Half the Sky Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a book by the husband wife team of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn published by Knopf in September 2009. ref Half the Sky website, http www.halftheskymovement.org ref The book argues that the oppression of women worldwide is the paramount moral challenge of the present era, much as the fight against slavery was in the past. ref cite news url http www.nytimes.com 2009 08 23 magazine 23Women t.html title The Women s Crusade last Kristof first Nicholas D. coauthors Sheryl WuDunn work The New York Times Magazine date August 17, 2009 accessdate 2009 10 11 date August 23, 2009 ref Half the Sky, which was published in September 2009 and immediately hit the best seller lists, focuses on sex trafficking, maternal mortality, sexual violence, microfinance and girls education. Carolyn See, the book critic of The Washington Post , said in her review Half the Sky is a call to arms, a call for help, a call for contributions, but also a call for volunteers. It asks us to open our eyes to this enormous humanitarian issue. It does so with exquisitely crafted prose and sensationally interesting material....I really do think this is one of the most important books I have ever reviewed. Several nonprofit organizations mentioned in Half the Sky have produced additional events and materials in support of the book, including a http www.care.org getinvolved halftheskytoolkit index.asp live event from CARE relief agency and a http www.engenderhealth.org halfthesky Reader s Companion from EngenderHealth . References Reflist External links cite news url http www.nytimes.com 2009 09 20 books review Manji t.html title Book Review Half the Sky Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn last Manji first Irshad date September 17, 2009 work The New York Times accessdate 2009 10 11 DEFAULTSORT Half The Sky Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide Category 20 ... more details
Other uses Joseph Fletcher 1905 1991 was an American professor who founded the theory of situational ethics in the 1960s, and was a pioneer in the field of bioethics . Fletcher was a leading academic involved in the topics of abortion , infanticide , euthanasia , eugenics , and cloning . Ordained as an Episcopal Church in the United States of America Episcopal priest, he later identified himself as an atheist . Citation needed date May 2010 Fletcher was a prolific professor, teaching, participating in symposia, and completing ten books, and hundreds of articles, book reviews, and translations. He taught Christian Ethics at Episcopal Divinity School , Cambridge, Massachusetts , and at Harvard Divinity School from 1944 to 1970. He was the first professor of medical ethics at the University of Virginia and co founded the Program in Biology and Society there. He retired from teaching in 1977. In 1974, the American Humanist Association named him Humanist of the Year. He served as president of the Euthanasia Society of America later renamed the Society for the Right to Die from 1974 to 1976. He was also a member of the American Eugenics Society and the EngenderHealth Association for Voluntary Sterilization . Quotes We need to educate people to the idea that the quality of life is more important than mere length of life. Our cultural tradition holds that life has absolute value, but that is really not good enough anymore. Sometimes, no life is better. Citation needed date November 2010 Ethics critically examines values and how they are to be acted out but whether they are acted out or not, loyalty to them depends on character or personal quality, and so it follows that the quality of medicine depends on the character of its clinicians. Citation needed date November 2010 We ought to love people and use things, the essence of immorality is to love things and use people References Memoir of an Ex Radical, Joseph Francis Fletcher Papers 20 29 . Recollections, Joseph Francis Fl ... more details
Alan Frank Guttmacher , MD 1898 1974 was an United States American obstetrician gynecologist . He served as president of Planned Parenthood and vice president of the American Eugenics Society . ref cite book title Margaret Sanger s Eugenic Legacy last Franks first Angela url http books.google.com books?id UBJWsbEHmT4C page 76 isbn 9780786420117 year 2005 publisher McFarland & Company ref Dr. Guttmacher founded the American Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians, now known as the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals , as a forum for physicians to discuss the birth control pill and other advances in the field. He founded the Association for the Study of Abortion in 1964. He was a member of the EngenderHealth Association for Voluntary Sterilization . The Guttmacher Institute is named after him. Family Alan Guttmacher was born in 1898 to Rabbi Adolf Adolph Guttmacher, and Laura Oppenheimer Guttmacher. His twin brother, Manfred Guttmacher , was a famous medical advisor to the Baltimore City s Supreme Bench as a psychiatrist. Their younger sister, Dorothy Emma Guttmacher, owned the Tudor Flower Shops at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Alan married Leonore Gidding in 1926 and together they raised three daughters, Ann Loeb , Sally Holtzman , and Susan Green . Professional history Dr. Guttmacher was a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Hopkins Medical School. He served as Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology and was appointed Obstetrician and Gynecologist In Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York for approximately ten years. In 1962, ten years after moving to New York, he became president of the Planned Parenthood Federation . He extended this endeavor by founding the Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians which included scientists and medical practitioners. From 1964 1968, he served as Chairman of the Medical Committee of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Guttmacher was also a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gyne ... more details
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