Thu, May 06, 2010
Lola O., NWHN Intern
The District of Columbia has launched a new campaign to fight HIV/AIDS. It will now be the first U.S city to provide free female condoms. With this project, 500,000 condoms will be available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high schools in parts of the city with high HIV rates. The project is funded through a $500,000 grant from the MAC AIDS Fund, a subsidiary of MAC...
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Wed, May 05, 2010
Lola, O., NWHN Intern
In an effort to increase awareness about heart disease, in April, Kansas’ first lady Stacy Parkinson launched a statewide women’s heart initiative entitled, “A Change of Heart-For Kansas”. She has teamed up with Kansas University Hospital leaders in hopes that awareness will increase the likelihood that women will get annual heart assessments.
Heart...
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Wed, May 05, 2010
D'Laura Brumfield, NWHN Intern
How bad must a problem get before action is taken to fix it or even have it mentioned by policy makers who have the power to change it? After attending a briefing hosted by Congressman Conyers, Jr. and Amnesty International on the issue of maternal healthcare in the United States, I have come to realize the problem is even worse than I had feared. Thankfully, the group...
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Fri, April 23, 2010
Michelle Rubin, NWHN Intern
I had always seen going to the gynecologist as a chore. I went, the doctor did what he needed to do, and I left confident that he had checked me for all of the problems and STIs I could possibly have. No news was always good news.
Fast forward a few years. One of my friends was complaining that the gynecologist at her college’s health center resisted testing her for...
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Tue, April 20, 2010
D'Laura Brumfield, NWHN Intern
During my first week as an intern at the National Women’s Health Network, I attended a briefing by Watson Pharmaceutical Company on their new emergency contraceptive, Ulipristal acetate (UPA). The briefing was sponsored by the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and included many other women’s health agencies including Planned Parenthood and the American College...
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Thu, April 01, 2010
Mashiana “Nikkie” Pittman, NWHN Intern
Whether you’ve just graduated from college or are a second year professional, planning a wedding or living the single life, we all have plans of how we desire of lives and careers to be, so as women we must always think of our personal and reproductive health. I don’t know your situation but some of the previous sentence describes my life and if I were to factor...
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Tue, March 30, 2010
Lola O., NWHN Intern
Life is full of emotional ups and downs. Hopefully, with the support of friends and family the down times can be brief moments in time. However, when the "down" times are long lasting or interfere with an individual's ability to function, that person may be suffering from a common, but serious psychological problem known as depression.
Depression is...
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Fri, March 26, 2010
Lola O., NWHN Intern
As if I needed another thing to add to my list of “what if” scenarios in regards to sexual intercourse, the CDC has now released a study that indicates as much as 16 percent of the U.S. population between the ages of 14 and 49 has genital herpes. While women do have the highest rate of genital herpes infection, the infection rate for African American women is estimated...
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Fri, March 26, 2010
Sarah G., NWHN Intern
My internship is reaching its end.A month from now I will be back in France. This blog will be the last one of many. Instead of chosing a particular health subject to write about, I will try to make this blog more personal and explain what my internship and my stay in the US has positively contributed to my “health habits”.
The first thing I’ll go away...
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Wed, March 17, 2010
Mashiana "Nikkie" Pittman, NWHN Intern
Like many women, especially in my age group, I LOVE my high heel shoes! For the last few years however, I have had to place limits on how often I wear them as well as where I wear them. I even went out and purchased a lower pair of heeled boots just to maintain some height and style while working in my current position. I have girlfriends (as well as myself...
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