UPDATE: HHS Revises Website
May 13, 2005
NCRW reported on April 4th that advocacy groups-- including Planned Parenthood Federation of America (NCRW Member Center) -- sent a letter to HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt protesting misinformation posted on a website designed to help parents talk to adolescents about abstinence. On May 11, HHS revised the website as a result of this outcry.
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MISSING: National Institutes of Health Attention to Sex differences in Medical Research
May 11, 2005
The Society for Women’s Health Research (NCRW Member Center) kicked off Women’s Health Week (May 8-14) with the release of findings that grants awarded by National Institutes of Health for the study of sex differences represented a very small percentage of total grants awarded over a four-year period.
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MISSING: Government Concern for Disabled Women's Rights
April 13, 2005
There are at least 300 million disabled women in the world, 28 million of whom live in the United States and yet the U.S. is refusing to support the convention on international rights for disabled peoples being drafted at the United Nations.
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UPDATE: New Government Website Disregards Findings on Efficacy of Abstinence-only Programs
April 4, 2005
The Department of Health and Human Services recently launched a website to encourage parents to talk with their teenage children about sexual abstinence: www.4parents.gov. Several organizations have found that the website contains inaccurate and misleading information.
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NEW MISSING: Information about Adolescent Health
December 6, 2004
On December 1, 2004, Representative Henry Waxman released a report which examined 13 of the most commonly used federally funded abstinence programs and curricula in the United States. According to the report, federally-funded abstinence sex education presents false and misleading information, with 11 of the programs—used by 69 organizations in 25 states—containing “unproven claims, subjective conclusions or outright falsehoods regarding reproductive health, gender traits and when life begins.”
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UPDATE: Disturbing New CDC Proposal
MISSING reported that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was putting young women’s lives in danger by altering information vital to women’s health, for example information about condom effectiveness, on their website. In June 2004, the CDC again proposed to change guidelines for providing federal HIV prevention funding. Their proposal would require groups to obtain approval of all educational materials before posting them on the Internet. On August 17, 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sent a letter to the CDC denouncing these proposed changes.
As the majority of Medicare recipients, and the poorest recipients, women are disproportionately affected by the current "misinformation" being circulated by the government about the new Medicare program.
MAY 19 UPDATE: The United States General Accounting Office (GAO) ruled that the Bush administration engaged inillegal propaganda when it produced misleading news segments about the new Medicare law.
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