564 Where to Get More Information
PATH: www.path.org
PO Box 900922
Seattle, WA 98109 USA
Tel: (1-206) 285-3500; Fax: (1-206) 285-6619
Email: [email protected]
Creates simple health care tools that are affordable
and easy to use, and helps to improve local health
systems around the world. Tools include simple test
kits for HIV and other STIs and illnesses, easy-to-use
scales, delivery kits, and syringes that can be used only
one time.
Pathfinder International: www.pathfind.org
9 Galen Street, Suite 217,
Watertown, MA 02472, USA
Tel: (1-617) 924-7200; Fax: (1-617) 924-3833
Email: [email protected]
Works with local governments and organizations to
make family planning and women’s health services
available by giving training and helping to create
health care systems.
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action
(WABA): www.waba.org.my
PO Box 1200, 10850
Penang, Malaysia
Tel: (60-4) 658-4816; Fax: (60-4) 657-2655
Email: [email protected]
A global network of NGOs and individuals whose
common goal is to promote, support and protect
breastfeeding. Contact WABA for local groups that
can help.
Women on Web: www.womenonweb.org
Online medical abortion service that helps women
around the world gain access to safe abortion (with
the pills mifepristone and misoprostol) in order to
reduce the number of deaths due to unsafe abortions.
Sexual Health
Female Genital Cutting Education and
Networking Project:
www.fgmnetwork.org
The purpose of the FGM Education and Networking
Project is the dissemination online and offline
of material related to female genital mutilation,
otherwise known as female circumcision. The
Project seeks to form an online clearinghouse and a
community for researchers, activists, attorneys, and
health care practitioners to obtain information and
network with others involved in similar projects.
Pleasure Project, The:
www.thepleasureproject.org
An educational, advocacy, and research program that
promotes safer sex that feels good.
Violence
Raising Voices: www.raisingvoices.org
P.O. Box 6770
Kampala, Uganda
Tel: (256-41) 531-186 or (256-71)839-626
Fax: (256-41) 531-249
Email: [email protected]
Publishes training manuals on prevention of domestic
violence. Could be adapted for any community:
Rethinking Domestic Violence: A Training Process
for Community Activists; Mobilising Communities to
Prevent Domestic Violence.
Work
International Labour Organization:
www.ilo.org
4, rue des Morillons, CH 1211
Geneva 22, Switzerland
Tel: (41-22) 799-6111; Fax: (41-22) 798-8685
A U.N. agency that promotes workplace standards
for: equality, justice, human rights, worker safety
and health, and protection for pregnant women and
children. Offices worldwide.
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