Tatiana considers herself a activist, advocate, and advisor for the reproductive justice movement. She has been featured on numerous other blogs and websites for her work in the movement.
A recent government report found that more than 40 percent of unmarried U.S. teenagers — or 4.3 million teen males and females — have had sex at least once, and one in five girls said they’d be happy to get pregnant.
More than half of HIV-positive women who wish to have children have not received adequate pregnancy counseling from their health care providers, according to a study published in the May 20 issue of AIDS Patient Care and STDs.
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 1 in 16 Black Men will contract HIV, and 1 in 30 Black Women in their lifetime.
Mississippi continues to disappoint me time and time again. Women’s rights and reproductive justice have been thrown under the bus for the selfish reasons of a Governor who believes it’s his right to decide what to do with women’s bodies.
Recently, researchers, policy makers, and community advocates from over 35 different countries descended on Pittsburgh, PA to attend the 2010 Microbiocides Conference (M2010).
My own experiences made me realize how important it is to have real choices in contraceptive methods, and to know that my doctor or provider will give me unbiased information based on good evidence.
NARAL says the younger feminists aren’t as involved in the movement; that we’ve got a “lack of passion.” To that I say – we are here, they just need to pay attention.
Parable: A renowned “man of God” abhorred abortion, until his own wife was raped and, out of pride, he chose a back-alley abortion over a safe procedure, permanently harming his wife. In Nigeria, this scenario is all too common.
HIV infections are on the rise among Cuban youth. But the problem is not that youth don’t care about their future, the problem is that we don’t care about their future.
Members of the black community have to break the silence on issues of reproductive and sexual health, or problems like genital herpes will become much bigger than they are today.
