News Releases and Analyses

Press Release: Sec. Clinton Announces Bold Vision for AIDS; Plan is Short on Answers for Women

Posted on November 9, 2011

"Have no doubt we will lose this fight if we don’t put women’s sexual and reproductive health and human rights at the center of the response.”

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Serra Sippel to moderate 6th annual 2011 Diversity Women’s Business Leadership Conference

Posted on October 10, 2011

On October 10, 2011, Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), moderated the opening panel discussion at the 6th annual 2011 Diversity Women’s Business Leadership Conference, a 700-person conference sponsored by Diversity Woman magazine that seeks to build the leadership and executive potential of women of all races, cultures, and backgrounds.

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Tiffanie Luckett Joins CHANGE as First Director of Development

Posted on July 19, 2011

"Tiffanie’s combination of experience in both nonprofit fundraising and sexual and reproductive health advocacy will no doubt augment the breadth and depth of our capacity as an organization,” said Serra Sippel, president of CHANGE.

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Press Release: Women’s Health Rights Advocates Applaud Court Ruling on Anti-Prostitution Pledge

Posted on July 6, 2011

The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) applauded today’s decision by a federal appeals court that the United States government cannot require U.S. organizations that receive U.S. foreign assistance to fight HIV/AIDS globally to denounce prostitution.

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Press Release: African HIV Leaders Meet With Congress, Administration to Advocate for Female Condoms

Posted on June 27, 2011

Leading African HIV advocates will meet this week with members of Congress and the Obama administration to advocate for increased policy and funding support for female condoms.

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Press Memo: “Recycling” Condoms in Kenya: Female Condoms Filling the Critical Gap

Posted on April 18, 2011

This memo introduces "Female Condoms and U.S. Foreign Assistance: An Unfinished Imperative for Women's Health," a new report by the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE).

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Press Release: Global Health, Human Rights, Religious Organizations Urge Obama to Attend UN Meeting

Posted on April 18, 2011

Fifty global health, human rights and religious organizations joined together this week to call on President Barack Obama to personally attend the upcoming United Nations (UN) High-Level Meeting on AIDS to be held in early June in New York City.

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Press Release: US Congressman Chris Smith Takes War on Women Global

Posted on March 23, 2011

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) today condemned U.S. Representative Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) trip to Kenya on Monday, where he attacked the country’s new constitution and opened a new front in the international offensive of his war on women.

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Press Release: Women CEOs in US Speak out for Women’s Health and Rights Globally

Posted on March 2, 2011

Approximately 40 women who lead development, health, and human rights organizations sent a letter to Congress today, urging senators to keep the United States’ commitments to international women’s health and rights amidst the current scrutiny of the foreign assistance budget.

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Press Release: Obama Administration Still Funding Discredited HIV-prevention Initiatives

Posted on December 1, 2010

Discredited Abstinence-Be faithful (AB)-only HIV-prevention initiatives are still receiving close to 20 percent of U.S. global HIV/AIDS funding, according to the 2010 President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) operational plan.

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