Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
(previously called Asians
and Pacific Islanders For Reproductive Health - APIRH)
310 - 8th Street, Suite 102
Oakland, CA 94607
PH: (510) 434-7900 ext 304
FX: (510) 434-7902
www.reproductivejustice.org
Casa Atabex Ache
417 E 140th Street, Suite 410
Bronx, NY 10454
Office Phone: (718) 585-5540
Fax: (718) 585-5980
e-mail: casaatabex@aol.com
Contact Person: Haydee Morales, Project Coordinator
Center
for Human Rights Education
P.O. Box 311020
Atlanta, GA 31131
Office Phone: (404) 344-9629
Fax : (404) 346-7517
e-mail: ROSSCHRE@aol.com
Contact Persons: Loretta Ross - Executive Director
Moon Lodge Native American Women's Outreach Project
3645 Locust Street Riverside, CA 92501
Office Phone: (909) 682-1637
Fax: (909) 788-4925
e-mail: Moonlge@aol.com
or Skytears1@aol.com
Contact Persons: Barbara "Skytears" Moore - Executive Director
COLOR
COLOR approaches reproductive health and rights from a holistic perspective, embracing the cultural values and history of the Latino community. COLOR believes that if the mind, body and spirit of a Latina are strong, she will be empowered to make healthy decisions concerning her body and, ultimately, her life. To explain the mysterious term 'reproductive health' COLOR adapted the following definition from the U.N. International Conference on Population Development
- includes mind, body and spirit
- right of Latinas to have a satisfying and safe sex life
- capability to have children and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so
- right to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable methods of family planning of choice
- right of access to culturally proficient health care services
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freedom to have and take control of our bodies.
PO Box 201061
Denver, CO 80220
Phone: (303) 393-0382 Email:
info@colorlatina.org
National
Asian Women's Health Organization
250 Montgomery St. #410, San Francisco, CA 94104
ph: 415-989-9747 fax: 415-989-9758
nawho@nawho.org
http://www.nawho.org
National Asian Pacific
American Women's Forum
1112-16th Street NW # 110
Washington DC 20036
(202) 293-2688
fax (202) 463-2119
-addressing trafficking, domestic violence, reproductive
rights, low wages, welfare reform.
http://www.napawf.org
- Seattle Chapter: http://www.napawf.org/seattle/
National
Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
PO Box 610456, Queens, NY 11361
ph: 718-226-7045, 718-229-1716
fax: 718-229-7112
LatinaInstitute@aol.com
http://www.LatinaInstitute.org/
Latina Outreach Program and Spanish Hotline
Loretta Franke-Valero, Activist Organizer
ACCESS/Women's
Health Rights Coalition
PO Box 3609, Oakland, CA 94609
ESPANOL: 888-442-2237
phone 510/923-0822
fax 510/923-0014
loretta@whrc-access.org
www.whrc-access.org
Native
American Women's Health Education Resource Center
PO Box 572, Lake Andes, SD 57356-0572
Phone: (605) 487-7072 Fax: (605) 487-7964
http://www.nativeshop.org/
National
Black Women's Health Imperative
(formerly National Black Women's Health Project)
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE #310, Washington, DC 20003
(202) 543-9311 voice, (202) 543-9743 fax
NBWHP@nbwhp.org
http://www.nbwhp.org
National
Women's Health Network
514 - 10th Ave NW #400, Washington DC 20004
202-347-1140
Project
Azuka, Inc.
Addressing women with HIV/AIDS and their families at the
local community level. AZUKA is a Nigerian name for a girl
child and the English translation is "Support is Paramount."
The African name references the target population of the
organization and our belief in supportive empowerment.
PO Box 9173
Savannah, GA 31412
Office Phone: (912) 233-6733
Fax: (912) 233-6082
e-mail: pansing@aol.com
Contact: Pandora Singleton - Executive Director
SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
Empowering all women of color to educate themselves, each
other and our communities about sexual reproductive health
and reproductive tract infections.
P.O. Box 211020
Atlanta, GA 31131
Phone: 404-344-9629
Website: www.sistersong.net
Contact: info@sistersong.net
Sister Love, Inc.
SisterLove is a women's sexual and reproductive health and rights organization focusing on HIV/AIDS and its impact upon women of African descent living in the U.S. and around the world.
P.O.Box 10558 713 Cascade Avenue SW
Atlanta, GA 30310
Office Phone: (404) 753-7733
Fax: (404) 753-1500
e-mail: SisterLove@wazzu.net
Contact Persons: Dazon Dixon - President/Interim Executive
Director
California Women's Foundation - includes information from Women
of Color Organizing Project (WOCOP)
Sisters Network is the first national African American breast cancer survivorship organization -- the national voice and leader in the African American woman's fight against breast cancer.
Babes
Network in Seattle. For HIV+ women. BABES is dedicated
to building a community among women from all walks of life
who are facing HIV and AIDS. BABES offers a women-centered
environment and assures confidentiality.
Black
Health Network - include sections on women's health
and doctor-answered questions.
Asian
& Pacific Islander American Health Forum - national
advocacy organization dedicated to promoting policy, program
and research efforts for the improvement of health status
of all Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
Agrupacion
Tutor Medica - website created by a medical group from
Barcelona, Spain, provides information on abortion, tubal
ligation, and vasectomy in Spanish, Catalan, English, and
French
National
Alliance for Hispanic Health
1501 - 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Chaya - a community-based nonprofit organization in Seattle to
serve South Asian women in times of crisis and need, and
to raise awareness of domestic violence issues. While many
excellent agencies provide services for Southeast Asians
in Seattle, Chaya is the only organization to specifically
address the needs of South Asian women.
PO Box 12917
Seattle, WA 98111
office: 206.568.7576
"African-American Women’s Maternal Health"
- Surveys have long since established disparities in maternal healthcare for African-American women - that they are three times more likely to die than white women to die from pregnancy-related complications and that their babies are half as likely to live out their first year. But the causes of this disparity are not fully understood, despite the existing data. A new study out of the University of Michigan is examining African-American women's maternal health, but from a variety of angles, including socioeconomic disparities, bias and discrimination. An interdisciplinary approach to the problem may be the start of an effective solution. Read more here: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2113/context/archive
"Racial Disparities in Medicine Have Lethal Consequences" (December 2004) Advances in medicine happen every day, and these advances save lives. But a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health examines how these advances do not reach all populations equally, and mortality rates have decreased among white people at a greater rate than for African-Americans. The study’s conclusion: racial disparities in healthcare resulted in nearly 900,000 preventable deaths for African-Americans in the period between 1991-2001. According to one of the researchers, "five times as many lives can be saved by correcting the disparities ... than in developing new treatments." Read more about this important study here: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=27349 or read the abstract here: http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/12/2078
National Center for Human Rights Education
118 East Maple Street
Decatur, GA 30030
Phone: 678-904-2640
Website: www.nchre.org
Contact: info@nchre.org
