As the Advocacy and Outreach Associate, Ms. Whipkey is responsible for implementing the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE’s) outreach, advocacy, partnership development, and grassroots mobilization around U.S. global policy and legislative issues related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Prior to joining CHANGE, Ms. Whipkey served as the Maine Grassroots Organizer for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) where she identified, educated, and mobilized supporters around local legislation affecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of Maine women and girls. Ms. Whipkey graduated from Bates College with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a secondary concentration in Women and Gender Studies
All women – whether living with HIV, married, young, transgender, poor, queer – experience their reproductive health in overlapping ways throughout their lives, and reproductive health programs and services should reflect this reality.
Yesterday the FDA approved the second-generation female condom, expanding the “prevention toolkit” and offering women a less expensive contraceptive and STI prevention option.
Female condoms for women, male condoms for men? Not so fast!
After years of ineffective, ideologically-driven U.S. HIV prevention policies, faith leaders are speaking up this year about comprehensive sex ed and the importance of access to a full range of sexual and reproductive health services in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
