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Making the Connection -- News and Views on Sexuality: Education, Health and Rights

A quarterly international newsletter on sexuality, sexual health, and sexuality education.

Volume 4/Issue 1,   Volume 3/Issue 2,   Volume 3/Issue 1,   Volume 2/Issue 3,   Volume 2/Issue 2,   Volume 2/Issue 1,   Volume 1/Issue 1

• About Making the Connection
• Volume 4, Issue 3 - Summer 2006
• Harmful Traditional Vaginal Practices Worldwide: An Overview
• One by One Communities Abandon Female Genital Mutilation
• Sexual Practices as Context: the Case of Microbicides
• Desire and Dollars Equals Designer Vaginas for More and More Women in the United States
• Vaginal Practices in Indonesia
• Making Sense of Female Genital Alteration Practices
• Volume 4, Issue 2 - January/February 2006
• U.S. HIV/AIDS Funding Dependent on Anti-prostitution Pledge that Jeopardizes HIV-prevention Success
• Focus on the Family's Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Curriculum Crosses International Borders
• Sauerbrey Appointed: Advocates Await First Acts and Replacement at the United Nations
• U.S. Government Appropriating the Uganda Success Story, Human Rights Watch Report Reveals
• New Tools and Resources
• Volume 4, Issue 1 - Spring 2005
• The Underlying Millennium Development Goal: Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services
• Doha International Conference for the Family Articulates a Far-Right Vision
• First-Hand Account: European and American Youth Talk Sex and Health, Demand Education and Services
• Volume 3, Issue 2 - Summer 2004
• Making the Connection - News and Views on Sexuality: Education, Health, and Rights
• Younger Women, Older Men, and the Spread of HIV in Africa
• Marriage: A Few Key Issues Defined
• Too Young to Wed: Child Marriage in Their Own Words
• The Silver Ring Thing: Just One Example of Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Going Global
• The International Mail-Order Bride Industry: An Increasing Threat to Women
• Ford Foundation Releases Article on Microbicides
• Volume 3, Issue 1 - Spring/Summer 2004
• Making the Connection - News and Views on Sexuality: Education, Health and Rights
• The U.S. Five-Year Global HIV/AIDS Strategy: A Vehicle for Conservative Ideology
• USAID Announces First Round of Grants For PEPFAR
• SIECUS President Travels to Africa
• ICPD Turns 10; United States Continues to Export Conservative Ideology at the Expense of Global Public Health
• The Third World Congress of Families Convenes in Mexico
• XV International AIDS Conference: Access for All
• Volume 2 Issue 3 - Winter 2002/2003
• Making the Connection Between Health, Sexuality and Human Rights
• Exporting the U.S. Domestic Anti-Family Planning and Anti-Woman Agenda
• Ugandan Approach to HIV/AIDS
• Developing Effective Laws and Policies in Lithuania
• Nepal Signs Historical Law Legalizing Abortion
• "No New Money" Campaign Launched in U.S.
• Brazil Launches First Anti-AIDS Campaign for Gay Men
• Condoms Count: Wealthy Countries Fail to Meet Need in the Era of HIV/AIDS
• Resources
• Volume 2 Issue 2 - Summer 2002
• Making the Connection Between Health, Sexuality and Human Rights
• Sexual Rights As Human Rights: A Grassroots Training Program in Turkey
• Safe Motherhood As A Human Right
• The Rights of Women in Prostitution
• Emergency Contraception and the "Back Up Your Birth Control" Campaign
• South Africa's Sexual Rights Campaign
• The Sexuality and Rights Institute
• Resources
• Volume 2 Issue 1 - Winter 2001/2002
• Russia: AIDS Infoshare: Bringing Together Public Health and Human Rights
• United States: The Politics of Abstinence-only versus Comprehensive Sexuality Education in the United States
• South Africa: National HIV-Prevention Program LoveLife and Independent Newspapers to Join National Fight Against HIV/AIDS
• Australia: Melbourne AIDS Conference: Confronting HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination
• Educational and Fellowship Opportunities in Sexuality
• United Kingdom: BBC's Sexwise Provides Critical Sexual Health Information Worldwide
• China: "A Strange Love Affair": Chinese Authorities Embrace Unification Church's Teaching on Sexuality
• Web Resources
• Volume 1 Issue 1 - Spring/Summer 2000
• Nigeria: Ministry of Education Approves Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education
• Columbia: Profamilia-Incorporating Sexual Health Services into a National Family Planning Program
• Russia: Study Looks at Youth Sexuality Knowledge and Sexuality Education
• United States: One Third of U.S. School Districts Now Have Abstinence-Only Education Policy
• World Association of Sexology: Declaration of Sexual Rights
• Coming Soon: Atlas of Human Sexual Behavior
• News Briefs: From the Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report
• Online Internet Resources

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