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
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
Oakland, CA
Babes
Network in Seattle, a sisterhood of women facing HIV together
Casa Atabex Ache
Bronx, NY 10454
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.
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.
Moon Lodge Native American Women's Outreach Project
3645 Locust Street Riverside, CA 92501
Office Phone: (909) 682-1637
Fax: (909) 788-4925
Contact Persons: Barbara "Skytears" Moore - Executive Director
National
Asian Women's Health Organization
ph: 415-989-9747
National Asian Pacific
American Women's Forum
Seattle Chapter
offices in NYC and Washington DC
National
Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
offices in NYC and Washington DC
Native
American Women's Health Education Resource Center
Lake Andes, South Dakota
National
Black Women's Health Imperative
National
Women's Health Network
SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
Atlanta, GA
Sister Love, Inc.
A reproductive justice organization for women with a Focus on HIV/AIDS
Atlanta, GA
Sisters Network a national African American breast cancer survivorship organization
"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
