Friday, May 18, 2007

In the Bay Area? Check out this Event!

Abstaining From Reality: U.S. Restrictions on HIV Prevention

Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
Population Action International
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
WORLD: Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases

Invite you to a reception and screening of Population Action International's documentary Abstaining from Reality: U.S. Restrictions on HIV Prevention, a short film that puts a human face on the consequences of an abstinence-only approach to HIV prevention.

With a panel discussion featuring:

Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando
In the film and
Director of the Centre for the Study of Adolescence, Nairobi, Kenya.

Judy Auerbach, Ph.D
Deputy Executive Director
for Science and Public Policy at SF AIDS Foundation

Terri Bartlett
Vice President
for Public Policy/Strategic Initiatives
Population Action International

Dian J. Harrison, MSW
President & CEO
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate

Naina Khanna
Community Outreach Coordinator
WORLD

When:
Thursday, May 24, 2007
6:00 PM Introduction and Film Screening
6:15 PM Moderated Panel Discussion & Q&A
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Reception

Where:
Zeum Theater
221 Fourth Street (@ Howard Street)San Francisco

Please RSVP to rsvp@popact.org

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

World Action for Humanity has joined the BLOG-osphere!!!

Welcome to World Action for Humanity's (a.k.a. WAH) blog. Designed to provide updates and information, we hope for this to be a resource that goes above and beyond the news we provide in our tri-annual e-newsletter (if you'd like to get on our e-newsletter mailing list, click here to sign up).

This is a place for information or links about what may be going on in Tanzania or Uganda (the locations of our two projects), new information about adoption in Africa, exciting activities WAH may be working on, and other pertinent local or not-so-local events or news. We hope that you'll enjoy our offerings and that this will be a great resource for the way YOU want to improve the world.

Come back and visit us real soon!