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"Fresh Focus: Sex Ed Digital Video Contest!" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-09-15 21:13:50

Jenna Bush on national television directly contradicting her create's policies that young populate need education in order to defend themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. Sex-ed has been in the news well pretty much constantly these days. John Edwards recently announced his health care intend with a goal to promote comprehensive age-appropriate sexuality education in the contend against HIV/AIDS. Congress is right now how to reduce federal funds for abstinence-only programs and increase funding for comprehensive sex-ed in the states. Meanwhile young people around the country are for their alter to medically accurate science-based sexuality education. With all of the information - and mis-information - flying around. RH Reality Check knows we need to be grounded by the voices of those who are most affected by this issue - young people! is RH Reality Check's newest project and we're thrilled to announce its open! RH Reality Check in collaboration with and. are giving young people ages 15-30 years old a forum for discussing the sexuality education they've had - or wished they'd had - in school and how they envision the future of sex-ed. Are you a young person between the ages of 15 and 30 years old? Do you have access to a digital video camera cell telecommunicate with video capability or a digital camera with video? Are you a health or sex-ed teacher who wants to act your students in an exciting collaborative project? Do you work with young people as a tutor inform or leader? We invite you to submit a video up to three minutes in length either individually or as a assort communicate to our. reasons to enter? How about these: first prize is a $3500 to scholarship to the institution of your choice or cash second prize will get you $1000 and third prize lets you decide from a Nikon P5000. Nintendo Wii or an iPhone! Finalists will also be invited to attend and screen their videos at the inaugural Sex::Tech Conference in San Francisco in January 2008 sponsored by the Institute for the Next Generation. Are you ready to submit now? tour the at DoGooderTV com and go for it! Or. RH Reality Check's contest page for rules information and submission guidelines. You can also email me at amie AT rhrealitycheck DOT org. Use your voice - and a video camera - for change!

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"Fresh Focus: Sex Ed Digital Video Contest!" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-09-15 21:13:30

Jenna Bush on national television directly contradicting her father's policies that young people need education in order to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. Sex-ed has been in the news come up pretty much constantly these days. John Edwards recently announced his health care plan with a goal to back up comprehensive age-appropriate sexuality education in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Congress is right now how to decrease federal funds for abstinence-only programs and increase funding for comprehensive sex-ed in the states. Meanwhile young people around the country are for their right to medically accurate science-based sexuality education. With all of the information - and mis-information - flying around. RH Reality Check knows we need to be grounded by the voices of those who are most affected by this issue - young people! is RH Reality Check's newest project and we're thrilled to announce its launch! RH Reality Check in collaboration with and. are giving young people ages 15-30 years old a forum for discussing the sexuality education they've had - or wished they'd had - in school and how they envision the future of sex-ed. Are you a young person between the ages of 15 and 30 years old? Do you have access to a digital video camera cell telecommunicate with video capability or a digital camera with video? Are you a health or sex-ed teacher who wants to engage your students in an exciting collaborative project? Do you work with young people as a tutor volunteer or leader? We invite you to submit a video up to three minutes in length either individually or as a group project to our. reasons to enter? How about these: first prize is a $3500 to scholarship to the institution of your choice or cash second consider will get you $1000 and third prize lets you choose from a Nikon P5000. Nintendo Wii or an iPhone! Finalists will also be invited to be and screen their videos at the inaugural Sex::Tech Conference in San Francisco in January 2008 sponsored by the Institute for the Next Generation. Are you ready to submit now? Visit the at DoGooderTV com and go for it! Or. RH Reality Check's contest page for rules information and submission guidelines. You can also email me at amie AT rhrealitycheck DOT org. Use your express - and a video camera - for change!

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"Fresh Focus: Sex Ed Digital Video Contest!" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-09-15 21:13:26

Jenna furnish on national television directly contradicting her create's policies that young people need education in order to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. Sex-ed has been in the news well pretty much constantly these days. John Edwards recently announced his health care plan with a goal to promote comprehensive age-appropriate sexuality education in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Congress is alter now how to reduce federal funds for abstinence-only programs and increase funding for comprehensive sex-ed in the states. Meanwhile young people around the country are for their right to medically accurate science-based sexuality education. With all of the information - and mis-information - flying around. RH Reality Check knows we be to be grounded by the voices of those who are most affected by this issue - young people! is RH Reality Check's newest project and we're thrilled to inform its open! RH Reality Check in collaboration with and. are giving young people ages 15-30 years old a forum for discussing the sexuality education they've had - or wished they'd had - in educate and how they envision the future of sex-ed. Are you a young person between the ages of 15 and 30 years old? Do you undergo access to a digital video camera cell phone with video capability or a digital camera with video? Are you a health or sex-ed teacher who wants to engage your students in an exciting collaborative project? Do you work with young people as a instruct volunteer or leader? We invite you to submit a video up to three minutes in length either individually or as a group project to our. reasons to enter? How about these: first prize is a $3500 to scholarship to the institution of your choice or cash second prize will get you $1000 and third prize lets you choose from a Nikon P5000. Nintendo Wii or an iPhone! Finalists will also be invited to attend and screen their videos at the inaugural Sex::Tech Conference in San Francisco in January 2008 sponsored by the Institute for the Next Generation. Are you ready to refer now? Visit the at DoGooderTV com and go for it! Or. RH Reality analyse's contest summon for rules information and submission guidelines. You can also telecommunicate me at amie AT rhrealitycheck DOT org. Use your voice - and a video camera - for change!

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"Dr. Jamie Grifo: Infertility & Reproductive Health" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-02-29 20:11:09

Dr. Jamie A. Grifo discusses infertility and reproductive health in an interview at NYU Medical bear on. This program is part of FORA tv's NYU Medical Center Wellness Series. Dr. Grifo is Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at NYU School of Medicine. He is also the Program Director at the NYU Fertility Center and an Attending Physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tisch Hospital. Dr. Grifo's career in reproductive medicine began in 1988. He has focused his research on preimplantation genetic diagnosis resulting in the first U. S baby born following this procedure. Dr. Grifo received his doctorate in biochemistry and his medical degree from Case Western keep back University. He completed residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and fellowship in reproductive endocrinology at Yale University. Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology. Dr. Grifo also is accredited in advanced operative laparoscopy and hysteroscopy through the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists. Dr. James A. Grifo is Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at NYU educate of Medicine. He is also the Program Director at the NYU Fertility Center and an Attending Physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tisch Hospital. Dr. Grifo's career in reproductive medicine began in 1988. He has focused his investigate on preimplantation genetic diagnosis resulting in the first U. S do by born following this procedure. Dr. Grifo received his doctorate in biochemistry and his medical degree from Case Western keep back University. He completed residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and fellowship in reproductive endocrinology at Yale University. Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology. Dr. Grifo also is accredited in advanced operative laparoscopy and hysteroscopy through the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists. An elected member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA). Dr. Grifo has received many honors during his career including several fellowship awards. In 1996 he received the President's Award from RESOLVE. In 1997. Dr. Grifo was named one of the "401 Best Doctors for Women in America" by Good Housekeeping magazine and has been designated one of the beat doctors in New York by New York Magazine yearly since 1996. He has presented several prize papers at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Grifo has published more than 100 medical and scientific articles in addition to numerous book chapters and he speaks frequently at medical-scientific meetings and symposia. He has directed the investigate efforts at NYU which has resulted in many improvements in assisted reproduction including nuclear transfer blastocyst transfer oocyte freezing and preimplantation genetic diagnosis. He is an active member and has held office in the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and is a past president of The Society for Assisted Reproduction (SART). Well we have one of the largest centers in the world and most experienced and we have been involved in developing some of the newer technologies in – in assisted reproduction for dilate. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. I was actually the first in the United States. We were the back up in the world to have a successful delivery from that procedure. We have advanced techniques such as blastocyst grow to improve the chances of IVF success and decrease the chance of getting multiple pregnancies which is the un-desired side effect of assisted reproduction. We undergo also been involved in some of the other controversial techniques for instance we were trying to for older women's eggs by doing nuclear transfer but that kind of get stopped by the FDA over – probably more political than safety concern issues. Well the political concern was – at the time cloning was – you know all over the media and nuclear transfer is one go used in cloning and I evaluate they got confused between what we were doing and what cloning was because we weren't cloning but there was a confusion. So I actually received the personal earn from the FDA telling me I can't do the bring home the bacon that they regulated and I had to submit an investigational new medicate application in order to act the bring home the bacon – after we had pay half a million dollars of private research money and developed the technique that actually worked. We developed it in a walk system that – there were healthy babies from it. We had done a clinical trial in humans and actually were able to act embryos that way but no one got pregnant in the limited series and that's when the bring home the bacon stopped because of the politics. We subsequently taught the Chinese how to do it and transported the techniques they were able – they were allowed to do at that time and we were successful and there was a successful pregnancy which unfortunately the woman had preterm labor and reptured membranes early and lost her pregnancy. And at that point the Chinese Government stopped the bring home the bacon because they thought the technique was the problem it wasn't it was just the complication of medicine. So that became a very political thing. So it was unfortunate because there was a line – promising lie of research that got stopped by – you experience overzealous regulation I evaluate. But – so we switched gears on that topic instead of trying to fix older eggs. What we started working on was learning how to freeze eggs so that younger women could freeze their eggs and be their own egg donor later on and not – not be this other technique so –. It's – it's not a widespread technique but we have now developed it – a method to the extent that we can be very successful with it and we – just are trying to create a clinical series where we showed we had pregnancy rates as good as fresh IVS cycles in – in a group of patients – assort of young patients that were – that volunteered to – you experience try this technique and we had – in 16 cycles and 15 patients we had 10 positive pregnancy tests and seven have delivered one is about to mouth. So we have a 50 percent delivered pregnancy rate with frozen eggs which – it has never been reported that high. Well when I first started that – I remember I was a Fellow at Yale and we had a 10 percent pregnancy rate and everyone thought that was great. Now you couldn't be in business with a 10 percent evaluate. We have got much more better at having good success. We have limited a lot of the complications. We made the technique a little bit more user friendly and we undergo been accumulate to help more patients by adding new – new techniques such as egg freezing or Embryo Biopsy. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis where we can help couples at genetic – with genetic risk not undergo a baby with a genetic disease. Well infertility firstly I have to define infertility. Infertility is – in the text books defined as a year of trying without getting pregnant so a year of unprotected intercourse without getting pregnant. Well that's just an arbitrary decision. The reason the text book label at that is because in generally takes about 13 months for 100 percent of 25 year old fertile couples to get pregnant. I mean we spend our lives avoiding trying to get pregnant. It's not so easy to get pregnant. Unfortunately I undergo our friends who – you know we tried one month for pregnant – you know they all talk but we tried 15 months and finally got pregnant nobody says that. So it's – it's a little different that way. But it is difficult to get pregnant and – and pregnancies come about unwanted in many cases too. So you know control of reproduction is something that a lot of us desire although politically some of us don't and that's a whole other topic. But you experience the causes of infertility in a lot of cases are unexplained. We have this term called idiopathic infertility which means we can't find the reason but this couple is not getting pregnant. Potential other terms – idiopathic – from the Greek it means “I am an idiot” and I can't evaluate out the pathology. But you experience by giving you this mysterious thing it makes it sound like you experience something. Yeah come up the reality is that's actually the best diagnosis to have even though it's the most frustrating. But you know patients think we were missing some thing when we can't explain it. But the good news is a lot of those patients are able to get pregnant change surface with simpler techniques. About 40 percent of infertility is male factor related so about 60 percent is female related. So it's not always the husband's fault although most of the time. But you know the cause of female infertility mainly there is Tubal Disease there is Fibroids there is ovarian problem such as endometriosis and their endocrine problems that interfere with ovulation. And the main cause of female infertility is just the late child bearing because as you get older it's more difficult to get pregnant and that's very true for women and less so true for men. No no it really isn't changing. And in fact – if you look at population studies arrive at fertility is in the mid 20s. So – you know biologically we are designed to have kids when we are still adolescents. And you know when you look at what society has done; I mean we are much more capable as parents when we are older. So you know our biology and our psychology have diverged and that's kind of created – you know this problem and why I am so busy because many people are choosing to delay child bearing and – and then they are having difficulty getting pregnant. And you – you could actually measure decline in fertility in women in late 20s and it's – it's modest but it's there if you look at the population and you know around 35 there is a little blip at 37-38 there is a little blip at 40 there is a little bigger blip and at 42 there is a much bigger blip and at 44 really the bottom falls out. The number of spontaneous pregnancies in women over 44 is limited. Well the treatments involve first the work up – and the work up of infertility is really not that complicated. It requires taking a medical history seeing if there is any medical causes for infertility and treating those directly and exam – looking for things desire fibroids and cysts a test called the hysterosalpingogram which checks the – to see if the tubes are open the fallopian tubes are open because if they are blocked you are not going to get pregnant things checking for ovulation documenting ovulation checking things like thyroid disease which can interfere with – with ovulation and looking for a hormone called Prolactin which can interfere – and these are all treatable things. Sometimes there is tubal disease and that's treatable surgically where you can fix the tubes some times fibroids are a problem. You can – you can surgically shift fibroids. Sometimes it's a malefactor problem some times surgery can fix the malefactor problem and medications can. So you know you have to treat the direct problem but the reality is that majority of infertility that we treat is unexplained where there is modest changes in some of these things that have been optimally corrected. And then what we are trying to do is up the odds you know if the chance of getting pregnant that is about 10 percent per cycle which is the reality – you know our assisted reproductive techniques improve those odds. And you know for a couple has been trying for a year and hasn't got pregnant their baseline pregnancy rate is probably somewhere in the two to five percent range. So what we do with those couples initially – with open tubes and the sperm ascertain is reasonable we will furnish a medication called clomiphene citrate which is a weak fertility medicine that stimulates ovulation and it improves the chances if you give clomid to fertile women it doubles their odds. So if you give it to infertile women it doubles their odds. It's not a miraculous treatment but it helps a lot of populate and it's pretty simple and it's pretty expensive. If that fails we use stronger medicines like injectable medicines which are stronger and have more problems associated with them desire multiple pregnancies. So you have to be very careful with those medicines. And if those treatments disappoint then we go onto In Vitro fertilization which in certain groups of patients is quite successful. And for a woman under 37 we have over all 50 percent delivery evaluate from one attempt in In Vitro fertilization. As women get older it's less efficient. For instance – you know at age 44 IVF has a about a six or seven percent pregnancy rate per attempted cycle using a woman's own eggs. So you can see that pretty significant change state over that time period. And then some of older patients who are unsuccessful with IVF where we have identified that the eggs were the problem then we do things like egg donation where we take a young women's egg preserve's sperm make an embryo and then put those embryos back into that woman. So she carries a baby that's not from her egg but it's her do by and she delivers the baby and that has very high success evaluate. That's about a 55 percent delivery evaluate from one attempt. Well. I mean the science and medicine has never done – outside the confines of society. I mean – so everything we do everyday is moral and political. You know my political statement is I am trying to help populate with healthy babies and some of the things that we do doesn't fit well with other populate's politics and that creates a lot of dilemmas and there are lots of people out there who are critics of what we do. There are people who are uncomfortable with the fact we actually could “act life in the lab” although I don't view it that way. I evaluate we are just assisting nature. We just do it – what nature does we just see it. So I don't think we are anything other than just agents of nature of god whatever – you know you want to say and our goal is to help populate healthy babies. And you know we see embryos in lab that aren't viable and we check them not make a pregnancy and – and there is no shame in that. I mean that happens in nature. I convey it happens – you take a handful of seeds you drop them on the ground most of them don't make plans. come up embryos are the same way. And I think what's an unpopular political statement to say is that most embryos aren't good most embryos don't make babies and what we do in IVF is back up decide the ones that are more likely to make a pregnancy because most embryos are chromosomally abnormal and unhealthy and would not alter a pregnancy. So the people have problems with us doing this kind of bring home the bacon and I understand that. But we are not asking them to participate we are trying to help patients – most of patients we see don't undergo problems with these technologies and want them because they desperately want to have a family. But yeah it's a tough field filled with lots of dilemmas in politics and – lot of inaccuracy in the media. You experience a day doesn't go by where you don't read an article about us unregulated cowboys in the medical field and we are – unfortunately probably one of the most highly regulated specialties and I have got to tell you most of the regulations don't help us be exceed. They make us – alter us cost more money and they don't stop the – the psychopath is going to do the wrong thing. But it's all window dressing to make the politicians look like they are doing something to defend patients and they are really not. And it's unfortunate because it just makes our job harder and more expensive and it really isn't helping. Yeah there is – there is a lot of diversity around the world about how our specialty is viewed. I think generally there is a lot of the similar politics. I evaluate there is a push to regulation. It's different in different societies. I think there is a lot of a worry around this technology because of the potential apply of this technology – you experience this call that has been developed called “designer babies” it's really not a real term. It was coined by the media as a way to – you know create stories around what we do – you know. I don't think we have to worry about those technologies. We don't design babies we don't undergo the ability to decide for hair color and eye color genes you know. come up the potential is that we could but right now we don't and – you know it's funny when I had the first embryo biopsy delivery in the United States we were the second in the world and the reason we were the second in world because I couldn't get permission to do it until the Brits were successful. I mean it how under regulated we were as a specialty. But at any rate – immediately there was this displace towards – you know that we got to stop this work because next thing we are going to be doing is – you know practicing politics in the lab and selecting for certain genes and selecting for certain races and it's just absurd. Yeah but we don't undergo the technology to do that. We are not really developing that technology because that's not what we are doing that's not our patients are asking us to do. They are asking us to help avoid a genetic disease. You know you have a couple who has baby with cystic fibrosis or a baby with a lethal disease that's been born and dies and then they go to you and say you know. “My adulterate said if I get pregnant again. 25 percent my babies are going to have this. I want to have a healthy baby.” You experience. “Could you do a gene test in my embryo so I don't have to pregnant with another baby with this problem.” That's what we are doing. We are not designing babies we are making healthy babies. come up you know. I think we are going to get better at the techniques that we do. I think a lot of the research centers around trying to be more effective – one of our biggest goals is to reduce the incidents of multiple pregnancies because to me getting triplets from IVF is not a success. In fact in some way it's a failure it's just less of a failure than a failed cycle. We undergo actually been working on techniques to be able to better select which is the embryo that's going to make the baby because the cerebrate we make so many multiples is we look at embryos and we can't tell which ones are the best and we put back more than we would like to in request to get a good pregnancy rate. And one of the things that we have developed over the last five years and actually it was just recently published is a method of growing the embryos in culture for a longer period of time and they kind of declare which ones are more healthy. So we are now putting back on an average one less embryo and we drop to our triplet rates depending on the age group of patient that you are looking at any where from you know three to five folds. So that's – that's a pretty dramatic improvement. We are still making a lot of twins because we are still – you experience getting to the point where a single embryo transfer is scary but we are doing it and we – in a decide a group of patients where we can be at embryos we can say look if we put back one embryo we can give you a 70 percent delivery rate if you are in this group of patients. So we shouldn't put the second one and make twins. The problem is a lot of the patients want twins. That's not our goal because twins are more complicated than singletons. We would rather have someone have a singleton healthy pregnancy and good outcome than have multiple. So on the horizon is finding that healthy embryo and we are working on other techniques where if we could look in the media that the embryo grows in for marker that tells us which embryo is healthy. That's something we are – we are researching – and then preserving fertility. There are lots of women who are young and diagnosed with cancer and they don't have the same come about as men who can freeze their sperm. Well now they do we have developed a technique they can freeze some of their eggs before they get their chemotherapy that destroys their ovaries and destroys their eggs and put them in the freezer. So when they cured of their cancer they can come back and have a pretty good chance of having the baby that they be because you experience when you get a diagnosis of cancer as a 30 year old woman you are not just thinking about dying of your disease you are thinking about all the lost the opportunity in part of life having a do by is part of it and when you tell someone oh you are going to get this chemotherapy it's going to cure you but it's going to baffle your fertility that's a big move of treating this cancer patients well because a lot of them are surviving and they want to undergo normal lives after their survival. So that's been a really big improvement and we are going to continue to try and get better at that technique. We are doing lots of investigate to make that technology exceed. What I like most about what I do – that's a great challenge because there are so much about what I do that I like but it's just being able to see the difference you alter in a person's life. And I think – you experience if you really talked to a lot of people who are passionate about what they do. I think most people feel like they are making a difference. You know it could be in any field. If you are making a difference in the world and in someone's life and it's a major difference that we make by helping them have babies. That to me is the most rewarding thing. It's just – nothing in the world can replace that feeling. That's just the most amazing thing – you can't even describe it. But you experience you have a lot of populate out there who just – whose life you made a huge impact on and to be able to go to work everyday and be able to do something like that is just indescribable.

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"Changing the Face of Reproductive Healthcare" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-21 07:20:41

The issue of healthcare is always a hot subject of debate particularly during an election. As our neighbours to the south get create from raw material to head to the polls next year we Canadians will be watching in interest as to which topics land on the political agenda. In particular the possibility of may mean a alter in the area of policy which North America so desperately needs. For the past eight years the furnish Administration has allowed for the proliferation of anti-choice groups and religious to change state almost mainstream instead of the radical extremists that they are. But how does healthcare fit into this debate? come up with physicians pharmacists nurses and other health care practitioners increasingly becoming “gatekeepers” to women’s reproductive health services it is important that we go away addressing the need to put women’s health back on the political agenda. In Canada we operate under the notion of universal healthcare. The basic idea of “universal healthcare” is that health services are available to every man woman and child in the country. As citizens we pay taxes to the various levels of government in order to undergo a publicly funded system that is accessible to all. Yet when it comes to women’s reproductive health this could not be further from the truth. Abortion services for example - which under the is publicly funded and should be accessible to all women who require it - has gone the way of the Do-Do and almost disappeared. Pressure on physicians who actually perform the procedure along with the apathy of health care providers to obtain this function for women has also allowed for. It is time to turn the measure ahead. Instead of resting on the achievements of the past women in both Canada and the US need to take up the cause of an issue that is not only about equality but is about attaining the best possible level of health care. Voting into power representatives that overlap progressive views on women’s reproductive health issues will be the only way that comprehensive reproductive health policies are instated.

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"The Burning Sensation that is Chlamydia" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-12 22:00:46

By: jm According to a recent poll carried out by Durex. 47% of all adults worldwide have had sex with someone without checking on their partner's sexual history - 48% of men and 45% of women. 65% of 45-55 year olds have had unprotected sex compared to 33% of 16-20 year olds. alter and protected sex not only lessens risks of unwanted pregnancies but also minimizes the odds of acquiring sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Circumcision for one has proven helpful to minimize HIV infection in men. The use of condoms prevent direct contact of the genitals thereby eliminating contact with genital secretions which displace bacteria. Personal genital hygiene is also important as it lowers if not prevent the assay of sexually transmitted infections (STI) from spreading. Something as simple as proper washing of the genitals before and after intercourse makes a big difference on the possibility of contracting STI. Itchiness soreness and genital accomplish can be signs of infection. However it is quite normal and healthy for women of childbearing age to undergo vaginal accomplish. The amount and alter of this can change during menstruation sexual excitement and pregnancy. An abnormal discharge which is thick and color green and foul-smelling or blood stained suggests possible infection. Among the many genital infections chlamydia is the most commonly reported world wide. About four million reported cases of chlamydia infection become in the United States each year. Chlamydia is caused by an intracellular parasite. Chlamydia trachomatis and can affect both males and females. This disease is transmitted in be fluids and doesn't defeat outside the body it can easily be acquired during vaginal oral or anal sexual contact with an infected partner; or passed on from care to child during bring forth. Chlamydia is a curable infection however it can measure for a long period of time if not treated. Diagnosis requires a consume of the patient's body fluid either through the urine or by directly collecting sample from the penis or the uterus. Chlamydia can be easily remedied through antibiotics. Most populate suffering from chlamydia are not aware of their infections and do not desire testing. This is because almost 80 percent of women and 50 percent of men don't bear witness symptoms. The most common symptoms of chlamydia for women include abnormal vaginal discharge irritation unusual vaginal bleeding deep pain during intercourse and painful urination. For males they usually undergo frequent urination with a burning sensation watery discharge from the penis and a burning or itching sensation around the opening of the penis. If left untreated. Chlamydia may develop complications for women's sexual health and also that of men. In rare cases the effects may even arrive to fatality. Forty percent of untreated chlamydia cases in women lead to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). One out of 5 women that go on to develop PID ordain change state infertile as a result. Chlamydia may also create ectopic or tubal pregnancies this proves most fatal of all complications as the fertilized ovum (egg cell) is implanted outside the uterus most often in the Fallopian tubes. Other effects consider premature birth miscarriage and chronic hurt in the pelvic region. Men aren't safe from the complications of prolonged untreated Chlamydia. They may create epididymitis (swelling of the testicles.) Epididymitis is the inflammation of the epididymis the tube that carries sperm from the testicle. Though complications in men are rare infection could create pain fever and sterility. Babies who are exposed to chlamydia in the birth furnish during delivery may develop an eye infection or pneumonia. Symptoms of an eye infection called conjunctivitis or "pink eye," include discharge in the eye and swollen eyelids that usually create within the first 10 days of life. Symptoms of pneumonia includes coughing that gets steadily worse and nasal congestion. It often develops within 3 to 6 weeks of birth. Patients who have contracted chlamydia should undergo their sexual partners evaluated tested and treated. Persons with chlamydia should cease from engaging in sexual intercourse until they and their sex partners undergo finished treatment otherwise re-infection is possible. Women whose partners undergo not been properly treated are at high assay for infection to recur. Multiple infections puts a woman's sexual health at serious risk. Retesting should be considered for women three to four months after treatment. This is especially adjust if a woman does not know if her sex furnish received treatment. Prevention is always exceed than aid. Engaging in unprotected or unhygienic sex practices puts one in a position where he is vulnerable to diseases and infections. Use protection if you undergo no idea about your partner's sexual history. 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"WelcometoJanani" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-04 01:43:09

: "Janani is a non-profit Indian Society that implements a large function delivery programme in three of the poorest states of India. The create by mental act is modeled on the exposit that the only option available to add the public sector in measure and force of service delivery is the private sector. The NGO sector accounts for barely 0.7% health care in India and by itself is not a viable option. There are vast sections of the population in India mostly poor and rural who do not have find to good quality health and reproductive health products and services. About 16% of couples in reproductive union—25 million in be—be to either space or limit children but do not use a modern method of contraception mainly due to lack of access. In poor states desire Bihar the unmet need is about 40%. Not addressing this need is a violation of some fundamental reproductive rights. Unwanted children also exact a huge price on the economy and the nation’s wellbeing. India has a vast public sector but during the five decades since the country’s independence from colonial rule the public sector has not been able to address the needs of the poor fully. There are an estimated 450,000 private doctors. 1.25 rural providers and 12 million shops in India—leveraging such resources provides a huge opportunity to add the public sector in scale."Clever marriage of private resources to accomplish public good ! We be more win-win partnerships like this. I am an IVF specialist who believes in information therapy. I also run the world's largest remove patient education library. HELP ( www healthlibrary com). I am a Director on the come in of a Healthcare BPO. Inventurus ( www inventurus com); and Yos Technologies which provides a comprehensive "Personal Healthcare System" which includes PHRs. Healthcare tools and applications for Preventive and Continuous compassionate ( www yostechnologies com)

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"PSA: Iraq Refugee Crisis - ?Iraqi women and children have suffered ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-25 18:45:03

September 24. 2007—The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children today called on the United States and the international community to respond quickly and fully to the United Nations interagency appeal for $85 million dollars to provide desperately needed health compassionate for Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Syria and Egypt. On a recent move to Jordan the Women’s equip saw firsthand the urgent need for this assistance. Iraqi refugees undergo limited or no access to even basic health services. The cost of accessing health compassionate is beyond the means of most refugees. At the time of our visit in June there were only two clinics providing free or subsidized medical care to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees in Jordan. The barriers to affordable health compassionate have dire implications for Iraqi refugees. They are not getting the treatment they need for chronic conditions like heart disease high blood pressure or cancer and women and girls are not receiving critical reproductive health services. The longer this endures the greater the number of lives at risk. “The health situation for Iraqi refugees is unconscionable and women and children are in particular need given the vulnerability of their situation,” said Carolyn Makinson. Executive Director. “Iraqi women and children undergo suffered terrible trauma and violence – we have a responsibility to care for their health. The international community must act now to ameliorate this situation.” Iraqi women and girls’ health needs particular attention. In Iraq women and girls undergo been targets of sexual violence including rape. They are now suffering the manifold burden of the trauma they experienced and forced displacement from their homes. According to the refugees the Women’s equip met with in Jordan the stresses and pressures of refugee life are also causing a rise in domestic violence. And because refugees cannot legally work in Jordan women and girls remain vulnerable to sexual exploitation and abuse. For all these reasons women and girls must have easy and regular access to medical attention and psychological and social support services for survivors of assail and abuse. In addition to fully supporting this new health challenge and an earlier education appeal the U. S government and international community must also develop a more comprehensive assistance strategy for Iraqi refugees that reflects the magnitude of the refugee crisis. This should consider significantly increased humanitarian assistance for refugees greater give for refugee receiving countries and robust resettlement programs for highly vulnerable Iraqis. “Iraqi refugees are becoming more vulnerable by the day,” Makinson said. “The measure to act is now.” Related: . Sweden’s Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy on how the EU needs to share the responsibility for providing safe haven to Iraqi refugees - and how aid must be allocated to Syria and Jordan the two lay Eastern nations with the highest influx of refugees: Sometimes I think it is an irony that Sweden – a country that did not take part in the Iraq War was not move of the alliance did everything it could in request to communicate for peace and is farthest away from the contrast in geographical terms – receives the most refugees. To my object that is rather strange. In some ways we undergo made progress. But the next thing – and that is important – is to try and bring aid to Syria and to Jordan the two countries in the region that have received a combined total of more than two million Iraqi refugees. If we don’t do that sooner or later there will be a political destabilisation of Syria and Jordan which ordain bring about to even more problems. We must verify that the refugees receive aid and that they can bear on themselves. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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"The HLS for Choice 1L board member application deadline has been ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-13 21:32:08

The HLS for Choice 1L come in member application deadline has been extended.   New board members ordain undergo a role in proposing and planning events educating students about reproductive health services offered here at Harvard and shaping the future of the organization.  No background is required.  Please send a bunco (1 summon is book) statement of arouse and any relevant accent by Wednesday. October 3 to Megan Hughes (mahughes@law harvard edu). 

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Posted on 2007-11-08 15:29:55

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