August 17, 2006
Vol. 12. No. 21
In This Issue:
Walk Your Talk: Keep Candidates Accountable by Asking Questions
It’s that time of year. Candidates are scouring the neighborhoods, the airways and TV trying to get your support. Make sure that they support HIV prevention and services by asking a few simple questions when they call or visit you at home.
Take Action: Take a moment to review the questions below and keep candidates accountable to HIV.
1. What is your position on publicly funded, science-based HIV prevention programs as a strategy for stopping HIV?
2. Do you support government funding for HIV-related health care and services for low-income or uninsured people living with HIV?
3. What is your position on comprehensive sexuality education?
4. What ideas do you have for reducing the stigma that is still associated with HIV?
Minnesota Update: Upcoming Candidate Forums, Get Informed!
Candidate forums are a great opportunity to learn about where candidates stand on important issues, like health care and education. Take a moment to check out the Minnesota Participation Project’s calendar of upcoming candidate forums in Minnesota. By attending a candidate forum you will have an opportunity to talk to candidates face-to-face about issues that matter to you.
Upcoming Candidate Forums
August 28
Washington County Commissioner
at Richard Walton Park from 6 to 8 p.m.
2006 Election Tip of the Week: Find Your Polling Place
You have registered to vote. Great! You have researched the candidates. Fantastic! Now you are ready to vote at the September 12 Primary election. But, where is your polling place? Click here to find out!
Science vs. Ideology: FDA Rejects Sound Science to Appease the Administration’s Constituents
Janet Woodcock, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Operations, testified that it was necessary for the agency to reject Barr Laboratories application for nonprescription sales of its emergency contraceptive Plan B in order “to appease the [Bush] administration’s constituents”. Read more.
Research Update: Decrease in Sexual Experience Among Teens, Increase in Condom Use
The number of U.S. teenagers who are sexually experienced decreased “significantly”, while condom usage increased, according to a report published on August 11, by the CDC. The study compiled data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Read more.
In The News: Editorial on the XVI International AIDS Conference
The Star Tribune included an editorial on the International AIDS Conference on Monday. The editorial calls out mistakes made in the past and calls for evidence based prevention, calling attention to the flawed abstinence only approach taken by the U.S. government.
Editorial: Toronto Talks, The World Waits
XVI International AIDS Conference Coverage
In The News: Minnesota Pediatricians Try Universal Chlamydia Testing
A group of Twin Cities pediatricians try a new approach to testing for chlamydia in female patients 15 years of age and older. Universal testing of willing patients will help identify those infected without asking about a young person’s sex life.
Article: Universal Chlamydia Screening Will Get Trial
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For more information about what's of interest to you at the Minnesota State Capitol, visit the Web sites of our allies at OutFront Minnesota and Sex Ed for Life.
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