Young men and abortion

SO often young men are looked over when it comes to support and work around abortion.

This site may help if you are working with young men. Thanks to Craig - a loving man - for passing on this website:

http://www.menandabortion.com/

Lud

INVESTING IN EDUCATING GIRLS

This post was passed on to me in an Email from Mel - one of our excellent SHineSA workers.

ABC Online PM -

Investing in educating girls [This is the print version of story

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2480376.htm]

PM - Monday, 2 February , 2009 18:26:00

Reporter: Emma Alberici

MARK COLVIN: The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland has ended with no decision about specific strategies for dealing with the financial meltdown. One thing the forum did manage to achieve this year was to keep the fight against poverty on the agenda at a time when the developed world is struggling for its own economic survivalThere were few celebrity diplomats at the Swiss ski resort this year, instead the crowds were drawn to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus . He's the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and acknowledged the father of microfinance.He argued that helping adolescent girls could turn out to be the biggest contributor to economic growth Europe correspondent Emma Alberici spoke to some of the women at the forum.EMMA ALBERICI: The session I just attended was called the "Girl Effect". And when registration opened here four days, tickets to this event were all allocated within minutes. It might have something to do with the calibre of the speakers who are there like Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. MELINDA GATES Right before the World Economic Forum I came from Tanzania, Ethiopia. A young girl, if she has a baby before the age 20, she is five times more likely to die than she is in her 20s. So we need to start talking to girls at a very young age, not age 15, you need to talk to them at age 10 and age 12 about family planning.EMMA ALBERICI: And here's living proof of what investing in women can achieve.HELENE D. GAYLE: The Honourable Mari Elka Pangestu, Minister of Trade for Indonesia.MARI ELKA PANGESTU: Yes. Thank you. I grew up in a very traditional family. My mother was always telling me, "Don't be so smart, don't show that you're smart or you'll never get married, you'll never get a boyfriend," and so on. That was how my household was. I wanted very badly to do well in school. I wanted to do better than the boys, I had a very competitive spirit, but my mother was always telling me the opposite. My mother also didn't want me to do a PhD. She said, "For sure you'll never get married if you get a PhD in economics." So I had a very, very insightful father who from the age of 10 he said to me, "You have to do well in school, because you have to be financially independent, no matter what. Even if you get married, it doesn't mean that you're going to be financially secure. Your husband can die, you can get divorced." So the fights were always between my mum and dad and my dad always supported me until I finished my PhD. And because I have the chance, I became the first woman to have a PhD in economics in Indonesia.NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: My name is Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, managing director at the World Bank. We've done enough studies that show that when you invest in a women, a girl, you actually have the greatest impact on the family. Because women spend 90 per cent of their income on their households in comparison to men who spend about 30 to 40 per cent in many countries. If a family's out of a job, it's probably better to train and educate the woman because she's going to have a better impact on the wealth of the household. So in this crisis I think we need to think carefully when we're designing safety-net programs to help people cope with the crisis. Not just to think in terms of the men.EMMA ALBERICI: But in many of the countries that you were talking about today, there is a cultural hurdle, isn't there? That women are simply not allowed to work, or not allowed to assume that dominant position in the household because in some respects in might insult the husband?NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: Of course, yeah. Many developing countries and developed there is a cultural hurdle. I mean, look at us here in Davos. How many panels had women?EMMA ALBERICI: Not many…NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: Virtually none. So it's not just a developing country problem.MARIA EITEL: I'm Maria Eitel, and I'm the president of the Nike Foundation. If we want to solve poverty and break this inter-generational, we should invest in girls before they're pregnant, before they're married, before they have HIV, then we solve all these problems before we have to spend money on them afterwards.EMMA ALBERICI: Are you concerned that during these harsh times, even companies like your own need to rein in spending and perhaps these sorts of philanthropic causes are the ones that are going to suffer?MARIA EITEL: I think we're even more committed in this environment, because when you have more limited dollars, every dollar has to be spent with the greatest thoughtfulness. And an investment in an adolescent girl; if you want to solve climate change, you're never going to solve climate change if you don't deal with population growth. And girls are at the centre of that. If you want to deal with the issues of water, if you want to deal with the issues of global health, HIV, the greatest infection rates. Seventy per cent of new infections of HIV are adolescent girls in Africa.MARK COLVIN: Maria Eitel, president of the Nike Foundation, speaking to Emma Alberici.
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What's Happening to our Girls

What's Happening to our Girls - by Maggie Hamilton.

This book is really fantatstic. It is in the SHineSa library and I reckon we should all read it.

Here is a quote just from the introduction.

"The book starts with baby girls, because advetisers are now actively targeting babies. They know that at 6 months a baby is able to retain brand logos, and that the trademarked characters on babies clothing and thier environment will translate into sales from the age of 2 upwards.This early process of turning girls into consumers reduces them to little more thajn target markets and had a dramatic and detrimintal impact on thier aspirations, body image and sense of self".

I dont kinow about you but this frightens and angers me - please have a read.

Great condom advertisements

Thanks to 'Hotmail' here are some gresat condom ads. Some of which have been banned. Some are funny and some are sad. Please have a look. Here is one to whet your appetite.


The first one is a banned Durex Condom Commercial. Absolutely hilarious, adorable and very graphically pleasing… not to mention inclusive. Very much a shame it didn’t make it to air.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=t5sTBrs4fhQ

This is one for the Straights out there… very amusing also!
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=bizJWtJ0xXo&feature=related

Not sure where this one came from… and the jury is still out I think.
http://vimeo.com/2827909

This is a Victorian based short doco from Nurse TV about the increasing rates of HIV and STI transmission in the state.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=tcq3216V6Go

A quite confronting HIV prevention commercial from the USA.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=a5zn36N0VUY&feature=related

A very cute condom reinforcement commercial from Thailand.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=tIVTiwo7jr4&feature=related

Another very funny straight one!
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nojWJ6-XmeQ&feature=rec-HM-r2

“LET THEM KNOW” WEBSITE

“LET THEM KNOW” WEBSITE

A new website to help clients with Chlamydia notify their sexual partners has recently been launched by Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. As well as general advice, the “Let Them Know” site provides examples of conversations, emails, SMSs and letters that clients can use to contact their partners. Emails and SMSs can be sent directly from the site, either personally or anonymously. To view the site go to: http://www.letthemknow.org.au/

“KNOW YOUR OPTIONS” – THE CONTRACEPTIVE EXPERIENCES PROJECT

“KNOW YOUR OPTIONS” – THE CONTRACEPTIVE EXPERIENCES PROJECT

Half of Australians who use condoms as their main form of contraception are not using them consistently, and 12 percent of women using oral contraceptives miss taking a pill at least once a month, according to an online survey from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University……most people were using some form of contraception, primarily condoms or the pill, few were using them correctly, increasing their risk of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections…..Forty percent of respondents had never been tested for STIs, and 14 percent had been diagnosed previously with an STI. The most common STIs reported were genital warts, herpes or chlamydia. Seventeen percent of respondents said they were "unsure" of their partner's STI status, and 3 percent said they had lied to a partner about their own STI status.
The Survey http://www.rmit.edu.au/psychology/contraceptive-experiences-project
The news item http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=158&ContentID=117790

UPCOMING FORUM - NOT TO BE MISSED

A 2009 SHine SA Sexual Health Awareness Week Event

Workforce Forum: Tensions in teaching about abortion

An interactive session about abortion as a part of sexual health education.

For youth workers, teachers, community health workers, nurses, doctors or anyone who work in the area of sexual health

· How do we teach about this much accessed service in a respectful way
· Update on medical and surgical abortion in South Australia
· Reality vs perceptions


Tuesday 17th February, 2009
5.30 – 7.30 pm (light supper)
Education development Centre
Milner Street, Hindmarsh

RSVP Sharon on 8300 5317 by Thursday Feb 12.
Places are limited so please book early.
This is a free event.

contraception teaching works??

I've long been a bekiever that somethung about the way we teach about contraception - or the forms of contraception need to change because the statisitcs about un wanted pregnancies, numbers of STIs etcetc keep rising Hhere is an article about " An expert in health services at The University of Nottingham is calling for urgent action to improve contraceptive advice and services to reduce the growing number of repeat teenage pregnancies in the United Kingdom. Using national abortion figures for England and Wales from 1991 to 2007, provided by the Office of National Statistics and Department of Health, researchers at Nottingham found that the number of women under 20 presenting for repeat abortions has risen steadily over the last 15 years.

Go here to read more

intertesting facts for reading

Go here to Cory Silverbergs blog to read about:

Harvard Researchers Develop Cream That Could Stop Genital Herpes
One Reason Why STDs Increase HIV Risk
COPA ( Child Online Protection Act) Dies a Quiet Death

and other things as well:::

international GLBTIQ activist?

Thanks to hot news for this:

IGLYO and ILGAGlobal LGBT youth network launched 19/01/2009World World

IGLYO and ILGA launch the LGBT Youth World List - the first international network of its kind. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer young people from all over the world can sign up to send and receive messages with other activists. Members will be encouraged to share their experiences, ideas and expertise, and to work together to solve problems and run projects. The working languages of the list are English, Spanish and French.

Go here to find out more