Angela Castellanos has over 20 years experience as communications consultant for development projects and as a journalist. That includes 17 years working as an international correspondent reporting on women issues in Latin America, for global press agencies, digital news services, international magazines, and local media. Angela is member of ORBICOM, International Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications. She holds a postgraduate degree in Science of Information and Press from the University of Paris, and graduated from the Faculty of Social Communications and Journalism from the Externado de Colombia University. She has been appointed as university professor as well as invited as a speaker to relevant international summits and seminars on communications, feminism and women’s portrayal in the media. Her work can be also be found at www.geocities.com/angela_castellanos_aranguren.
In Colombia, a bill that would introduce the vaccine into Bogotá’s public health care system has just failed for the third time.
Although abortion is permitted in Bolivia in three cases, just six women have had access to legal abortion in this country. The reasons: judicial barriers as well as doctors who oppose abortion.
During International Breast Cancer Month, the Colombian government piloted new programs to increase early detection.
A majority of Colombian women get Pap smears, but new studies show that ten percent of such tests administered in Colombia yield inaccurate results.
U.S. support for an Inter-American Convention on Sexual and Reproductive Rights would restore America’s leadership role in promoting women’s health abroad.
Sexuality education in Colombia has failed to reduce teen motherhood — and a new study finds the curriculum’s failure to address cultural stereotypes of male and female behavior is partly to blame.
Until 2007, Colombians believed that female genital mutilation was a practice unique to some African countries. But last year we learned that it has long been practiced by one of Colombia’s aboriginal groups.
The Colombian High Court has just ruled in favor of a governmental health agency’s right to distribute emergency contraception pills within in public health care system.
Colombia’s maternal mortality rate has decreased in recent years, due largely to increased prenatal care. But the country still needs to increase the number of births attended by skilled personnel.
Colombia has made significant progress on fighting HIV/AIDS and ensuring access to treatment. But will a new national plan for HIV that addresses the growing numbers of infected women work?
