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  11. 100,Ivy Chen,"Yale is the only campus whose health service facility offers mifepristone in the US. On this campus, students' health insurance includes coverage for medical and surgical abortion! This should be the standard.
  12.  
  13. There are no significant disadvantages for having mifepristone on campus. The many advantages for mifepristone on campus are the same for mifepristone access off-campus:
  14.  
  15. 1) a woman can take it as soon as she knows she's pregnant
  16.  
  17. 2) there's more of a sense of privacy and control since there is no invasive surgery involved
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  19. 3) there's no risk of infection or uterine perforation
  20.  
  21. 4) broader availability of mifepristone should reduce the ability for right-wing terrorists to target abortion providers
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  23. 5) see feminist.org and prescribechoice.com for more...",Feb 26 2002 5:19PM,"Jennifer Jackman, PhD","Hello, I'm a college freshman taking a class on public health issues. I was wondering if you think universities should offer Mifepristone to college women as part of the health plan. What are the advantages and disadvantages?",NULL
  24. 1000,Moderator,"I hope I've answered the questions honestly, and with as much information as possible. And I thank you for taking the time out and showing an interest.",Feb 13 2003 12:40PM,Isioma Daniel,"Isioma Daniel, Thank you for joining us today.",rosalyn@feminist.org
  25. 1001,Teresa Farrell,NULL,Feb 13 2003 11:42AM,Isioma Daniel,"Can you give us a list of actions that the average woman in the US can do in aide of the women of Nigeria? Also, to help with your safety?",tl-farrell@charter.net
  26. 1002,Chris Wrinn,"That's a big question. I think at the moment the media is more interested in what's happening with Iraq. Because of that a lot of things have been pushed out of the news. People don't know about other things that are important that are happening in the world. Unless you change the news, I don't know what anybody can do. Because, that's the way news is...unfortunately. And also, because what happened to me is more or less an African event, it's not given as much importance or commitment as it deserves.",Feb 13 2003 12:11PM,Isioma Daniel,"Cudos for standing strong!
  27. I would like to know what you think we could do to spur our mainstream media into informing the public of these type stories.",cwrinn@optonline.net
  28. 1003,l walker,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:02PM,Isioma Daniel,Clitorectomies in Nigeria,lawalker@hctc.com
  29. 1004,Cristina,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:03PM,Isioma Daniel,What are your next steps in your career/life?,cjover33@aol.com
  30. 1005,vicky,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:03PM,Isioma Daniel,"You quit your job at ""This Day""? What are you plans now?",vickygou@comcast.net
  31. 1006,Adrienne Wonhof,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:04PM,Isioma Daniel,What has been Chevron's response?,awonhof@msn.com
  32. 1007,Emilie Karrick,"Everything has changed. One, because right after the time that article appeared, I had just graduated from university and I went home to put my experience to use in my country. I had a plan. I was going to work for a year. I was going to go do my Masters. It was all laid out and visualized in my head. And then overnight, poof, everything just disappeared. And now I'm having to start again in a country I've never been to, and I never ever ever in my wildest imagination...didn't even know where it was on a map and now I'm here. I have to start again on a different path.",Feb 13 2003 12:16PM,Isioma Daniel,How has your life changed since you wrote the Ms. World column?,ekarrick@feminist.org
  33. 1008,Emilie Karrick,"I stand by the fact that I don't believe that there was anything wrong in the column; that there was not anything justafiable in the 'fatwa', in the violence. I stand by that.",Feb 13 2003 12:14PM,Isioma Daniel,Do you still stand by what you wrote in that column?,ekarrick@feminist.org
  34. 1009,Emilie Karrick,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:08PM,Isioma Daniel,"Condi Rice is on the Chevron board. As a member of the Bush cabinet, she also is a role model for young African-American women. Has she shown any support for the women in Nigeria?",ekarrick@feminist.org
  35. 1010,Jo Worsfold,"Actually, yes, when I was a student. I was quite involved with activities at my university. Like Jubiliee 2000. Social groups were holding protests, writing letters to Chevron. We formed a group at the university concerning the activities of that particular oil company in the Niger Delta.",Feb 13 2003 12:21PM,Isioma Daniel,"Ms Daniel,
  36. Thank you for answering my questions. I would like to know if you have had previous experience with (or against) these major oil companies before the Nigerian incident outlined in this web article.
  37. Jo Worsfold
  38. ",jfworsfold@hotmail.com
  39. 1011,Melissa Potter,I don't know if there have been any other protests this year. Shell and Chevron were the 2 main companies targeted in that original protest.,Feb 13 2003 12:20PM,Isioma Daniel,What are the other oil companies operating in the region? Have they been targetted by similar protests?,m2potter@hotmail.com
  40. 1012,Emilie Karrick,"It's very difficult. It depends on... Nigeria is a sexist society. And most women are taught that their most important role is the home-building role. The home, having children. Their taught that's the best thing they can do with their lives, basically. When a woman breaks that role, says, I want to be a success in the workplace... it can be very difficult because the power is held by the men. They find it difficult to believe that a woman is capable to function intellegently in a business environment. In anything outside of domestic work. Equal rights in Nigeria is a bit of a laugh to most men.",Feb 13 2003 12:23PM,Isioma Daniel,How hard is it for young women and men to be feminists in Nigeria?,ekarrick@feminist.org
  41. 1013,Melissa Potter,"No. The very first week when the riots began, I, um... I was worried for my life. Because if they were killing people who had nothing to do with the article and who didn't write it... what would they do to the person who actually did write it? So I had to leave the country. But at the same time, I thought that after awhile that everything would just cool down and then I'd be able to return. I never expected that they'd come out with a fatwa.",Feb 13 2003 12:27PM,Isioma Daniel,Did you ever expect that a fatwa would be placed on your head for what you wrote in the article about the Miss World pageant??,m2potter@hotmail.com
  42. 1014,Roz,"I decided to go into journalism during my Cambridge A levels. At that time it was just a pragmatic decision. I wanted to be able to do something where I was using English, writing. And it turned into a career, a profession. The more I learned at University, the more passionnate I became. It wasn't just a job anymore. I really do believe that journalism is a valuable and necessary profession in society. Just as you need doctors and teachers you need journalists in society.",Feb 13 2003 12:32PM,Isioma Daniel,What prompted you to go into journalism?,rosalyn@feminist.org
  43. 1015,Jo Worsfold,"The women who carried out the protests, they are not middle class, or rich wealth socialite Nigerian women. Those are they types of women who usually get into politics. They weren't trying to get into politics. They were just angry and frustrated that their sons couldn't get work. All the oil companies had ruined the land. They couldn't fish, they couldn't farm. In the middle of all that is the oil company that wasn't giving back, just taking and taking. It wasn't about politics, it was just the natural thing to do. They couldn't just sit back and allow these things to happen. And they used the fact that Nigeria is a society that views women as the weaker sex to their advantage... because when they went out to protest, no one wanted to hurt a woman. The protests held by young men, are usually surpressed easily with violence. But you can't just come out shooting at women whose ages range from 17 - 60, 70, 80. It wasn't politics, just fighting for what they wanted.",Feb 13 2003 12:35PM,Isioma Daniel,"Ms Daniel,
  44. So, given the cultural pressure on the Nigerian women to be, I assume, docile and not pro-active in the politics of the region, were they able to formulate and carry out this very efficient and effective action with little prompting or outside help?
  45. ",jfworsfold@hotmail.com
  46. 1016,Alicia,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:40PM,Isioma Daniel,How has the US played a role in Nigeria’s oil industry? Have they contributed to the problems?,adaly@msmagazine.com
  47. 1017,Moderator,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:40PM,Isioma Daniel,"Thanks for joining us today, Isioma.",rosalyn@feminist.org
  48. 1018,justine,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:40PM,Isioma Daniel,"Hi!
  49. Can you tell me a little about what other issues you are currently concerned about that you do not feel are getting the attention they deserve in the mainstream press?
  50. ",andronicij@cs.com
  51. 1019,Alicia,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:41PM,Isioma Daniel,Do you think the nonviolent protest used by the women was effective? What lessons can we learn from them as we are protesting impending war?,adaly@msmagazine.com
  52. 1020,j,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:41PM,Isioma Daniel,"Hi!
  53. Can you tell me a little about what other issues you are currently concerned about that you do not feel are getting the attention they deserve in the mainstream press?
  54. ",andronicij@cs.com
  55. 1021,Jo Worsfold,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:43PM,Isioma Daniel,Wait! Could I please have your email address?,jfworsfold@hotmail.com
  56. 1022,Daniel,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:45PM,Isioma Daniel,Would Mohammad take you for a bride?,xepem77@hotmail.com
  57. 1023,(Ms)Gerry Curtis,NULL,Feb 13 2003 12:59PM,Isioma Daniel,"I salute you, and God bless you",gwiz1927@clinic.net
  58. 1024,<blank>,NULL,Feb 19 2003 1:24AM,Maria Aguiar,<blank>,NULL
  59. 1025,maria,NULL,Feb 19 2003 1:24AM,Maria Aguiar,whats female oppresion,NULL
  60. 103,Dallas,"Mifepristone is currently available in some 25 countries including most of the European Union, Russia, South Africa, New Zealand, Taiwan, China, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, and the US.
  61.  
  62. Exelgyn is the company making mifepristone available throughout the world (except the US). The Danco group is the company providing the drug in the US.",Feb 26 2002 5:36PM,"Jennifer Jackman, PhD",What other countries is mifepristone available in?,NULL
  63. 1038,Mohammad Hassan Mashori,NULL,Feb 27 2003 3:00PM,Kim Nichols,how can we work with you,golarchi2002@yahoo.com
  64. 1041,L,NULL,Feb 28 2003 9:23AM,Isioma Daniel,can you tell me anything about roe vs wade,Lucieee88@yahoo.com
  65. 1043,April Sjovall,"Well here's a question which has been discussed in public health circles since Africa and HIV epidemic came onto our radar. It is acknowledged that surgical procedures with shared, non-sterile instruments has certainly played a role in the transmission of HIV, and it is also true that in many countries in Africa, over half of the female population has been circumcized or infibulated, often in circumstances where instruments are not sterilized between use.",Mar 5 2003 2:16PM,Kim Nichols,I was wondering if the prevalence of HIV and AIDS in africa is not at least by a good margain due to FGM?,fourwindsbar@yahoo.com
  66. 1045,james m nordlund,"I keep circling round this question. Corporations CAN be brought on board to help us here. It's just that when it comes to public health/AIDS and human rights, they have a track record largely of being on the wrong side. We need to keep pushing them, engaging them to understand the end-consequences of their greed-LOSS of PROFITS!",Mar 5 2003 2:53PM,Kim Nichols,"If the roots of lack of compassion for the diseased and the en vogue economic tool war, one being psycho-pathic greed, aren't addressed in Western societies sociological programming of their populaces, won't the corporate structure's convolution's devolutionary direction eventually determine more apathy and social pathos in global society; ergo less funding for prevention, treatment, and research into curing AIDS, in the longrun?",jamesmnordlund@yahoo.com
  67. 1048,james m nordlund,"Wow! That is quite a question - I read the question as ; whether the
  68. profit for some would undermine the philanthropic and humanitarian spirit?
  69. There is no easy answer to such a question, but what I know from my
  70. experience is that so far Foundations which are largely corporate
  71. institutions have been very supportive both financially and technically of
  72. the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Some examples are the Gates
  73. Foundation, Kaiser Family Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Shell, etc,
  74. and you can find what they have done and are doing on their websites. I only
  75. hope and pray that, that caring spirit will never die in us as human beings,
  76. otherwise, we shall lose direction of why at all we are on this earth.",Mar 19 2003 1:49PM,Sophia Mukasa Monico,"If the roots of lack of compassion for the diseased and the en vogue economic tool war, one being psycho-pathic greed, aren't addressed in Western societies sociological programming of their populaces, won't the corporate structure's convolution's devolutionary direction eventually determine more apathy and social pathos in global society; ergo less funding for prevention, treatment, and research into curing AIDS, in the longrun?",reality@informatics.net
  77. 105,nessa,"Most people experience side-affects not from mifepristone but from the other medicine given as part of a medical abortion, misoprostol. Misoprostol causes the uterus to contract which expels the products of conception. Side effects can include naseau, vomiting and diarrhea. Women also experience more bleeding with a medical abortion than a surgical abortion, but it has many advantages over a surgical abortion such as privacy, control, and being able to have an abortion at a very early stage.
  78.  
  79. ",Feb 26 2002 5:41PM,"Jennifer Jackman, PhD",What exactly happens when you take mifepristone for an abortion? I have heard that it causes side effects. Is it more dangerous than a surgical abortion?,NULL
  80. 1050,james m nordlund,"You have touched on several systemic problems that, like sexism and racism
  81. in our society, have had direct and indirect impact on the AIDS crisis. We
  82. must keep these deeper problems in mind, but also have to focus on what we
  83. can achieve in the short term--so people with HIV are alive to fight for a
  84. more just society.
  85. <p>
  86. I agree that the very expensive war on Iraq, which will create many public
  87. health and human rights problems in its wake, will also draw resources and
  88. attention away from AIDS. In fact, US Secretary of State Colin Powell has
  89. even acknowledged that AIDS is a grave threat to national security--but the
  90. U.S. is still not mobilizing the money and other resources on the scale and
  91. with the urgency needed to save lives.",Mar 26 2003 2:26PM,Asia Russell,"Hello! If the roots of lack of compassion for the diseased and the en vogue economic tool war, one being psycho-pathic greed, aren't addressed in Western societies sociological programming of their populaces, won't the corporate structure's convolution's devolutionary direction eventually determine more apathy and social pathos in global society; ergo less funding for prevention, treatment, and research into curing AIDS, in the longrun?",reality@informatics.net
  92. 1051,Roz,"From your question, the quick straight forward answer is that, if you
  93. tested HIV negative a year ago and have not been exposed to HIV infection,
  94. then the probability of you not being infected or HIV negative is 100%.
  95. There is what they call the window period - which is usually calculated to
  96. be 14 days - 3 months from the time you were exposed to HIV infection. This
  97. is the time when the body is still figuring out what is happening in your
  98. body and has not produced enough anti bodies, that are detectable as
  99. evidence of HIV infection in most of the HIV tests they use. If you are
  100. using a rapid test, you are always referred for a confirmatory test, using a
  101. more complicated procedure, if there is high suspicion of HIV infection or
  102. the probability of getting a false positive.",Mar 19 2003 1:50PM,Sophia Mukasa Monico,"Hello, how are you? Well, I took a HIV test in December it was negative. My Husbands job often requires Aids test
  103. and his are always negative. We have been married for one year and I was active with someone else about three monthe before I meet him. So, what are the chances of a next HIV test being negative?",Monnique100@hotmail.com
  104. 1052,Roz,"Not yet. There are a few things in human trials now, but only one vaccine candidate has made it into Phase III trials. Unfortunately the product AIDSVAX was not proven effective. Other vaccines are in earlier trials, so we don’t yet know if they will work. Some of the candidates in early trials, including a DNA-MVA vaccine series that my organization, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, is testing in the UK, Kenya and Uganda, look promising in early trials, and it is important for us to fast track these vaccines into larger trials so we can find out if they will work.",Mar 6 2003 2:00PM,Kay Marshall,Is there a new vaccine to prevent HIV?,"Monnique100@hot,mail.com"
  105. 1053,pearl,NULL,Mar 3 2003 9:26AM,Donna Lopiano,how does it work here?,NULL
  106. 1057,David Bryden,"Thank you, David. it is a pleasure to join you and I hope that I'll be able to shed some light on some of these important questions regarding global AIDS policy and funding.",Mar 5 2003 1:55PM,Kim Nichols,"Hello Everyone. My name is David Bryden. I work as the Communications Director at the Global AIDS Alliance. I will be moderating today's chat.
  107.  
  108. I would like to thank Kim Nichols for joining us in the chat today.",dbryden@globalaidsalliance.org
  109. 1059,David Bryden,"Thanks, David. For all of you who are interested in the US legislative avenues possible to redress the painful lack of funding for Global AIDS by this Administration, please go to gaa.org\cd_action.html (Global AIDS Alliance), which has been a leader pushing our government to put its share to fighting the global AIDS epidemic forward.",Mar 5 2003 2:59PM,Kim Nichols,"Thanks Kim for taking the time to share your ideas with us.
  110.  
  111. I would also like to thank all those who participated in the chat.
  112.  
  113. We would appreciate your
  114. feedback about the chat. Please go to http://www.advancedsurvey.com to take a 2 minute survey.
  115. On the website, enter 4130 under ""Take a Survey."" Thank you very much for your participation and feedback.",dbryden@globalaidsalliance.org
  116. 1061,Rebecca,NULL,Mar 3 2003 5:39PM,Ellen Dorsey,"How can the Bush administration be held legally accountable for their actions against women's rights, both domestically and internationally?",feminist@magicmayhem.com
  117. 1063,Elle Milholland,NULL,Mar 3 2003 6:18PM,Ellen Dorsey,What do you think of this - http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/opinion_e3f59054d03fa1da00e5.html,Milholland@mindspring.com
  118. 1064,Lindsey ,"It will definitely take all of us working together to let the Food and Drug Administration know that we demand over the counter access to Emergency Contraception, which is why we are working so hard to get thousands of signatures to our petition to make Emergency Contraception available over the counter (EC OTC). Women's Capital Corporation, the makers of Plan B, will submit their request for over the counter status to the FDA in early April. At that time, Feminist Majority Foundation will submit thousands of EC OTC petitions from activists all over the country to the FDA. In addition, over 70 organizations, including the American Public Health Association, signed a citizens petition to the FDA in February 2001 requesting that emergency contraception be made available over the counter. Many people are concerned that anti-abortion politics will hold up the over the counter approval of Plan B, which is why it is so important for our voices to be heard. The American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology have both called EC's prescription status ""medically unnecessary"". The public is overwhelmingly in favor of increasing access to EC by making it available over the counter and with your help, our voices will be to loud to ignore.
  119.  
  120. After the Women's Capitol Corporation submits their request to the FDA, the process could take a matter of months, but we will continue to submit waves of EC OTC petitions to the FDA to demonstrate widespread public support until we achieve over the counter status for this important drug.",Mar 18 2003 2:18PM,Aimee Boone,"What you think it will take to get the ""morning after"" pill available over-the-counter? And how long do you think it will take to become over-the-counter?",Binzykid@aol.com
  121. 1067,madeline boyle,"A great question. Lowering population growth is an important subject, and
  122. I'm not sure why more stories aren't generated about this critical topic.
  123. Clearly, it's a complicated issue. Perhaps a lot of journalists want to stay
  124. away from the abortion issue, which is clearly linked to the population
  125. growth issue. More explicitly, it's women having reproductive control over
  126. their lives which can increase a family's resources, allow for more children
  127. to attend school, allow for the town to provide more services to go to
  128. school, allow for more precious healthcare dollars to be spent per
  129. person...and all of this works to end the cycle of poverty so many people
  130. are in. The education of girls has been shown to be one of the most
  131. effective means of stabilizing/decreasing population growth. Some good
  132. resources are: Population Connection/ZPG, Population Action International
  133. and the Population Reference Bureau.
  134. ",Mar 13 2003 3:11PM,"Beth Jordan, MD","Why does our media never, never touch on the subject of ""population control""? There is so much suffering among the poor throughout the world, especially third world countries and it will never get better unless women have choice. But still, I wonder why sociologests, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, etc. never get a forum to speak on what is so important, is crucial.",tomitzy@yahoo.com
  135. 1071,Andrea Briggs,"The Bush Administration seems to be yielding to its small fundamentalist
  136. constituency in these matters. Remember, elections are very, very close and
  137. there's given the way the country votes, appealing to a small group of
  138. voters can sway an election one way or the other. This administration has
  139. pandered to its fundamentalist constituency by appointing the
  140. anti-mifepristone, anti-choice, anti- contraception WD Hager to the FDA's
  141. Advisory Committee on Reproductive Health Drugs, pressuring the CDC to
  142. change its science-based policy of condom promotion (really, it's the only
  143. thing we truly have at this point for the prevention of HIV transmission in
  144. sexually active people- condoms WORK) and pressuring the National Institutes
  145. of Health to act as if there was any lack of clarity about the link between
  146. abortion and breast cancer (there IS NOT.) The Bush Administration seems to
  147. feel justified in putting millions of lives at risk because of their belief
  148. that sex outside of marriage is just wrong. But the facts show that
  149. (surprise!), people do indeed engage in sexual activity outside marriage.
  150. Indeed, they even have extra-marital relations with different partners while
  151. married. That said, the Bush administration seems to feel that if you alter
  152. the info, you alter people's behavior. If you JUST SAY NO to sex, people
  153. won't have it. Really, we know that's not the case. It's more relevant to
  154. discuss abstinence along with birth control to give people all options.
  155. Being real saves lives. Condoms save lives.",Mar 13 2003 2:21PM,"Beth Jordan, MD",How can the Bush administration possibly justify taking condom facts off the website of the CDC? Surely the science community especially the CDC is enraged since condoms are not used solely for contraception but are also the only real protection against STDs? Won't this lack of education for young adults and others about condom use seriously endanger lives and public health?,missandi5@aol.com
  156. 1072,Andrea Briggs,"Emergency contraception (EC) is used to prevent pregnancy for up to 72 hours after unprotected sex, failed contraception, or rape. EC works by preventing ovulation, preventing fertilization, or preventing implantation. Emergency contraception is, in fact, a high dose of birth control hormones. It's just used after sex instead of before sex, so it's not that different from other forms of contraception. Some people, even health care providers, confuse emergency contraception with mifepristone, or RU-486, the French abortion pill, or believe that EC can actually cause an abortion. This is not the case, however. Mifepristone is a form of medical abortion, and can be used to terminate a pregnancy during the first 7 weeks, but EC cannot terminate a pregnancy.
  157.  
  158. Because of conscience clause laws, health care providers and pharmacists can refuse to prescribe or dispense EC based on their own personal beliefs. If your gynecologist is personally opposed to Emergency Contraception, she does not have to provide you information, referrals, or a prescription. The good news is that if you're having trouble finding EC, you can call 1-888-NOT2LATE or go to www.not-2-late.com to find a provider near you.",Mar 18 2003 1:59PM,Aimee Boone,"When I tried to obtain emergency contraception from my gynecologist's office, I received the caustic reply: ""We don't do that here."" I didn't realize that there was a continuing controversy about emergency contraception, what's so different from other forms of contraception?",missandi5@aol.com
  159. 1075,Beata Baradziej,NULL,Mar 4 2003 4:54AM,Ellen Dorsey,"Dear Madam, I would be happy if you could help me with the following: Bosnian group tries to organize a prevention program for the breast cancer in Bosnia. They are looking for financial support. Do you know any organizations who could help them?
  160. Thank you in advance for your answer,
  161.  
  162. With kind regards,
  163. Beata Baradziej
  164. Mama Cash",b.baradziej@mamacash.nl
  165. 1077,Phyllis Salloway,NULL,Mar 4 2003 7:26AM,Ellen Dorsey,"How can we get a movement started to impeach Pres. Bush. He's not only stupid, he's dangerous. Women are becoming the pawns of the Church once again under Bush's rule. We've got to get congressmen to push for his removal, and quickly.",psallowa@northshore.edu
  166. 1078,Phyllis Salloway,"I want to refer you to a story that came out this week on how abortion is
  167. linked to DECREASING the crime rate. This is based on the premise that every
  168. child should be a loved and wanted child. Families, communities and nations
  169. suffer when that's not so. Here's the link:
  170. http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=16533",Mar 13 2003 2:22PM,"Beth Jordan, MD","Your question here. How can we get our congressmen to impeach Bush? He's making women into chattel, the property of rapists. No wonder there are so many unwanted children in the world. How is that improving the mental health of our nation. Angry parents are forced to bring into the world unwanted babies. Talk with the fighter, Mike Tyson, and he'll tell you horrific stories of what it is like to be unloved by your parents. I bet a lot of people would tune in to hear Mike Tyson's story.",psallwa@northshore.edu
  171. 1081,Callie Benton,NULL,Mar 4 2003 1:34PM,Ellen Dorsey,What can ordinary women troubled by the loss of reproductive rights do in their home states to help secure reproductive freedom?,callie_benton@hotmail.com
  172. 1083,tmaynard,NULL,Mar 4 2003 4:46PM,Donna Lopiano,Hi,NULL
  173. 1084,Jeff,"This is a great question. Rich countries may only agree to cancelling developing country debts when it becomes clear that the infrastructures in those countries are so bankcrupt that foreign capital investment and use of developing country labor to milk that capital may no longer be possible. I think in the case of Africa, the HIV epidemic will take such a great toll on investments that debt repayment may someday soon be acknowledged by the bilaterals and multilateral lenders as insupportable.",Mar 5 2003 2:08PM,Kim Nichols,"As someone who is well connected at the highest levels of global politics (UNAIDS, the Global Fund, etc.), do you think rich countries will ever agree to cancel developing country debts to the extent needed to make a real difference? If yes, what is your sense of the timeframe--how is the issue progressing--and how should the money saved be put to good use? If no, why not?",jallen300@yahoo.com
  174. 1085,Jeff,NULL,Mar 4 2003 5:05PM,Kim Nichols,"As a board member of the Global Fund, what are your thoughts on President Bush's new $15 billion AIDS plan?",jallen300@yahoo.com
  175. 1087,Jeff,"AIDS is the single biggest health problem we face as a species and it doesn’t get nearly enough column inches or airtime in Africa, the US or anywhere else in the world. The work that I do in Africa is specifically to help local journalists understand the tough science and policy issues surrounding clinical trials of AIDS vaccines. In communities where AIDS vaccine trials are planned are going on, we work with the media so they can better explain what the trials are and what they mean to the local community. We also work with journalists to help them find new and innovative ways of writing about AIDS. In many communities there is a great deal of stigma around AIDS--journalists have a key role to play in their communities in helping to fight the stigma and provide clear and accurate information about what AIDS is, how you can get it and how you can protect yourself, and what to do if you think you may be infected.",Mar 6 2003 1:53PM,Kay Marshall,Your bio says you often travel to Africa to educate local media on HIV/AIDS reporting. Could you explain a bit about what the problems are with media coverage of AIDS in Africa and in the U.S. as well if you know? Thanks.,jallen300@yahoo.com
  176. 1088,Jeff,We hope we are 5 –7 years away from at least a partially effective AIDS vaccine. The whole AIDS vaccine effort is still woefully underfunded—in 2000 IAVI estimated that the world needed to spend more than US$ 1 billion over 7 years on the development and testing of AIDS vaccines. A single large scale clinical trial can cost US$100 million or more and we will need multiple Phase III trials in the coming years.,Mar 6 2003 2:05PM,Kay Marshall,How close are we to a vaccine in years and dollars?,jallen300@yahoo.com
  177. 1089,Jeff,"There are a number of different strains, or subtypes, of HIV. Researchers don’t yet know if vaccines will only work against the subtype from which they are made, so it is important to test vaccines for the subtypes most common in regions where the need for a vaccine is the greatest. My organization, IAVI, was founded in 1996 because no one was working on AIDS vaccines for developing countries --the only vaccines being tested at that time were for subtype B, the most common in North America and Europe. Since that time a number of vaccine candidates have been developed, and some are already being tested in humans, for the subtypes most common in Africa and Asia.",Mar 6 2003 2:27PM,Kay Marshall,Aren't different vaccines needed to combat different strains of HIV? Is it true that many more resources are being devoted to finding a vaccine for the strains common in the developed world than for those common in Africa and other developing regions?,jallen300@yahoo.com
  178. 1090,girl,NULL,Mar 4 2003 8:49PM,Donna Lopiano,"i had just got a pregnancy blood test, but my doctor had never contact me, so i had heard my fetal heartbeat for the first time in my home, so what do i do now?",NULL
  179. 1091,girl,NULL,Mar 4 2003 8:51PM,Donna Lopiano,"i had just got a pregnancy blood test, but my doctor had never contact me, so i had heard my fetal heartbeat for the first time in my home, so what do i do now?",NULL
  180. 1094,jacques du guerny,"That's another great question. The UN declarations and reports often fail the test of adoption, implementation. But the UN Commission was not the only body to fail in protecting women from HIV/AIDS. Health department, charged with protecting the health of people from deadly diseases, even in wealthy countries and rich cities, failed to protect women from becoming the next wave in the HIV epidemic. This occurred right here, in NYC, where I live. 1990/1 was the juncture at which the epidemic really, in retrospect, starting affecting women in the US. Women elsewhere, in the developing world, for ex, were already heavily affected, as we know today.
  181. Again, a question of political will for implementation, and also a question of denial. One population after another has fallen to HIV thanks to denial.",Mar 5 2003 2:19PM,Kim Nichols,"Why after the UN Div for Advancement of Women and the Commission on the status of women alerted women to the danger of HIV/AIDS and its gender dimensions in 1990/91, was this work mostly abandoned and several years lost for women to protect themselves?",duguernyj@club-internet.fr
  182. 1096,James,"Insufficient financial resources, stemming from lack of political will at the highest levels of government in the G-8. Also-lack of political will in many of the recipient countries to involve meaningful participation of civil society, especially NGOs, in the development of Global Fund proposals and in the implementation of national and local programs funded by the Global Fund.",Mar 5 2003 2:01PM,Kim Nichols,What are some of the challenges facing the Global Fund?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  183. 1097,Lisa,"I am actually on a delegation to the Board of the Communities Living with HIV, TB, and Malaria. As a community NGO person, it has been interesting and challenging to merge my way into discussions which are often limited to heads of state, multilateral institutions (World Bank, other UN agencies,etc.) The community members on this board are very active and there has been great movement to incorporate our viewpoints into the implementation of the Global Fund framework.",Mar 5 2003 2:02PM,Kim Nichols,Can you describe what it has been like to participate on the board of the Global Fund?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  184. 1099,Rita,"
  185. The private sector, including corporations, have given only a small proportion of the funds donated to date to the Global Fund. The majority of the funds pledged to date (2.2 Billion through 2006) come from donor governments. The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, which has recruited some 70 major corporations as members, has not been in the business of raising money for the Global Fund; rather they have helped these corporations develop sound workplace policies on HIV/AIDS, develop corporate commitment and guidelines for treatment of workers and families with ARV therapy, etc.
  186. ",Mar 5 2003 2:06PM,Kim Nichols,What has been the involvement of corporations in the Global Fund?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  187. 1101,Lynn Martin,"Yes, the AIDS Service Organization of Uganda. One of the original and now best established African AIDS NGOs. Sophia Mucasa Monico, who will be on the chat later- maybe tomorrow?- formerly worked with TASO.",Mar 5 2003 2:23PM,Kim Nichols,Are you familiar with a group of hiv positive women in Uganda called Taso Malago? I think that's the correct spelling thanks,poetlynn@sover.net
  188. 1102,Jim,"We don’t really know. The only way to know if a vaccine is effective is to test it in a Phase III efficacy trial in thousands of people. So far only one AIDS vaccine has reached Phase III testing. You may have heard last month about AIDSVAX, a vaccine developed by VaxGen a US biotech company. In a Phase III trial in North America and Europe, the vaccine did prove effective. Other vaccines in human testing are farther behind-– most in Phase I or early Phase II testing. Some of these vaccines like IAVI’s DNA-MVA being tested in the UK, Kenya and Uganda and Merck’s DNA-- Adeno vaccine being tested in US look promising in early trials.",Mar 6 2003 2:33PM,Kay Marshall,Which vaccine has the most potential in terms of AIDS prevention and why?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  189. 1103,Kelly,"A key to ensuring that AIDS vaccine development continues at the fastest pace possible is to make sure that there is adequate funding for all
  190. stages of research and development. Political will is also important. For example, in countries where vaccine trials are planned it is important for legislators and policy makers to understand how they can help foster an
  191. environment conducive to the conduct of ethical trials. It is also important for local regulatory agencies to understand how trials work
  192. and be able to make informed and timely decisions about approving trials.",Mar 6 2003 2:36PM,Kay Marshall,What are some ways to help facilitate and speed up the process of vaccine development?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  193. 1104,Mary,"There are scientific challenges to making an AIDS vaccine - there is still a lot scientists don't know about HIV, so we need to try many different
  194. approaches in candidate AIDS vaccines. For example, we don't know if we need neutralizing antibodies or cell-mediated immunity or a combination of both. We learn from the laboratory work and from each trial we do, but
  195. there are still many unanswered questions. There are also non-scientific challenges to AIDS vaccine development -- we need governments in both the developed and developing world to provide more political and financial support to AIDS vaccine development.",Mar 6 2003 2:14PM,Kay Marshall,What are some of the main challenges in terms of vaccine development?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  196. 1105,Jay,"Most candidate AIDS vaccines that are being developed are designed to prevent HIV infection. A number of candidates being tested as preventive vaccines in people who are not HIV-infected are also being tested as potential therapeutic vaccines in trials with people who are HIV-infected. But, since almost all vaccines for other diseases are for prevention, rather than treatment, this is a new concept.",Mar 6 2003 2:41PM,Kay Marshall,"What are the different types of vaccines that are being developed--treatment, prevention, etc.?",rkimages@yahoo.com
  197. 1106,Isabel,"Most vaccines are made by using a weakened or killed version of the pathogens they are meant to protect against. So, for example, the oral polio vaccine is made from a weakened form of poliomyelitis, the virus that causes polio. For AIDS vaccines, researchers don’t use whole-killed or live-attenuated HIV, but rather very small parts of HIV to make vaccines. It is not likely that a vaccine could be made without using at least a part of the pathogen, so traditional and herbal medicines would probably not play a major part in developing an AIDS vaccine. But these methods are very important in the treatment of many diseases, including opportunistic infections often associated with AIDS.",Mar 6 2003 2:19PM,Kay Marshall,"What do you think about the potential of a vaccine being developed using traditional mediciine or herbs developed using local traditional knowledge from an African country, India or China?",rkimages@yahoo.com
  198. 1108,Peter,"My title is treatment educator, but my work is not just limited to treatment education. On some days, I am a social worker. On some days, I view myself as a clinician. On some days, I am peer mentor. On some days, I am sitting in a therapy session with other people with AIDs who feel displaced, and a large part of my work is helping them feel &#8220;placed&#8221; back into society. Afterwards comes the medication. And I say that because I am helping people, especially women, lift layers upon layers of trauma that they do not have the opportunity to address.",Mar 12 2003 2:22PM,Michelle Lopez,Can you please describe the work you are currently doing for the Community Healthcare Network?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  199. 1109,Kate,The most difficult aspect is knowing that another woman is being infected on a daily basis. The reason is that I know that if we get the opportunity to make the decisions in our lives then we can maintain our well being and survive.,Mar 12 2003 2:33PM,Michelle Lopez,What is the most difficult aspect of living with HIV/AIDS? Why?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  200. 1110,Birama,"I am currently taking Kaletra and Trizivir. The positive aspect is that I have obtained a good viral suppression, and am maintaining this. The negative part is that I have to take this medication until there is a cure. It is frustrating for me to know that I have to take these pills in order to survive.",Mar 12 2003 2:36PM,Michelle Lopez,What are the positive and negative aspects of the medicine that you are currently taking?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  201. 1111,Tina,"
  202. We are not criminals. No one that has this virus went out and asked to be infected. Because of situations and circumstances in our lives, we became infected. As an immigrant woman, I was very vulnerable in getting infected because I wanted a greencard. I took abuse from men. I accepted whatever men dished out to me both good and bad because of the dream that was being fed to me&#8212;if you stay with me and be submissive then you get the green card, and that led me to the path of destruction. Many women that I know that immigrate to this country are in that situation.
  203. ",Mar 12 2003 2:28PM,Michelle Lopez,What do you think people who do not have AIDS should know about people living with AIDS?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  204. 1112,Tara,"I would like to get more involved with NAPWA and you can do this by joining us at AIDSWatch http://www.napwa.org/aidswatch.htm in Washington DC from May 18-20. AIDSWatch is a unique opportunity for people from all over the United States to come to Washington, DC, to unite with one strong voice in support of a solid federal commitment to AIDS programs.",Mar 12 2003 3:04PM,Michelle Lopez,How do you think people can get involved to support the work that you are doing?,rkimages@yahoo.com
  205. 1113,Jalana,"Science is often a trial and error process–sometimes you have to try many different approaches before you find the one that works. The news on VaxGen's AIDSVAX is disappointing, but we are not discouraged. The search for an AIDS vaccine will—and must—go on. Scientists remain confident that an AIDS vaccine is possible. Alternative AIDS vaccines, employing different design strategies, are now in development, and some have already entered human trials. These must move forward through further study, without delay. Because the numbers of blacks and Asians in the trial was very small it is difficult to draw conclusions about what this means, (VaxGen's analysis is based on just 13 infections among black volunteers, 4 in the vaccine group and 9 in the placebo group). Finally, there are groups of commercial sex workers who have remained uninfected despite repeated exposure to the virus. Studies involving some of these women are the basis for IAVI’s DNA-MVA vaccine now being tested in the UK, Kenya and Uganda.",Mar 6 2003 2:30PM,Kay Marshall,"What repercussions will the most recent ""failed"" vaccine trials, which were so widely publicized, have on future research and funding for a vaccine? There were reports of some success amoong non-hispanic minorities in the latest trials. What are the implications of that research? There are some rumors of commercial sex workers exhibiting continual i",jalanalazar@yahoo.com
  206. 1114,Kevin,"I lived in Guatemala just prior to the recognition of the HIV epidemic-left in 1980. I hear from friends who are working in CA as project officers that communities there are getting quite organized, particularly networks and organizations of people living with HIV- and treatment is beginning to become available in this region.",Mar 5 2003 2:12PM,Kim Nichols,"Seeing that you have lived and worked in Africa and Central America, have you seen any similarities or differences with how local communities in Africa tackle HIV/AIDS issues compared to local communities in Central America?",kreid@aiusa.org
  207. 1118,Laruen Brydle,"First of all, sign the Feminist Majority Foundation's petition to the Food and Drug Administration asking that Plan B, a progestin-based form of emergency contraception, be made available over the counter at www.feministcampus.org/prescribechoice/ecotc.asp. Emergency contraception could cut in half the number of unintended pregnancies and reduce the number of abortions by 800,000 every year in the United States, but women must have access to EC for its promise to be realized. Second, visit your campus health center and take FMF's Campus Health Center survey (download at http://www.feministcampus.org/prescribechoice/CampusHealthCenterSurvey.pdf). Find out if your health center already offers Emergency Contraception. If not, why? If so, do people on campus know that it is available and how to use it? Is the health center open on weekends and does it offer advance prescriptions for EC to increase access for women on campus? Finding out what health services are currently available is the first step in expanding access to Emergency Contraception for women on campus. The next is to contact your Campus Organizer at campusteam@feminist.org so that we can work with you to make changes in health care policy on campus.",Mar 18 2003 2:07PM,Aimee Boone,"What can I do to help make the availability of the ""morning after pill"" a reality?",lkbgardener@juno.com
  208. 1119,Julie Mikalson,"Julie-it is true that the technology for developing clinical trials for AIDS vaccines and therapies require the support of laboratory facilities which are relatively few and far between in Africa. Generally the developers of these trials are either based outside the African continent, or have research partners based in developed countries who can help support technology needs for analysis of clinical results. In the area of traditional Chinese medicine, there is a group in Boston which has started the Pan-Africa Acupuncture Project (out of the NE School of Acupuncture and a local hospital or clinic) They might be able to tell you more about TCM and diagnostics available to monitor VL and other clinical results. Roche Diagnostics has been providing its viral load test to most of the vaccine trials in Africa and to some of the ARV studies.",Mar 5 2003 2:25PM,Kim Nichols,"A research MD recently told me that there is not adequate technology to move forward larger scale Clinical Trials for AIDS treatment in Africa. I would like to focus energy on a demonstration project, for a new Chinese medicine shown to be effective in reducing the viral load - in smaller scale Trials in both humans and animals. I understand there is a need for secure facilities and equipment sufficuent to conduct HIV blood assays. Can you suggest ways I might stimulate action around Technology Transfer for this purpose? Thank you for your work!",tv4choice@yahoo.com
  209. 112,Joan,"The goals of my particular part of activism with the Feminist Majority are simply to restore the civil and human rights of the women in Afghanistan and ensure the stability of the situation in that country so that these women can use their rights in reality because they feel safe in doing so, rather than having theoretical rights, which are too dangerous for them excercise.",Mar 5 2002 10:30AM,Mavis Leno,Can you describe the main goals of your work or your organization's work?,NULL
  210. 1121,Maya,NULL,Mar 5 2003 2:13PM,Kim Nichols,What are some important issues dealing with HIV/AIDS that you don't hear about in the mainstream media?,NULL
  211. 1122,Peter,NULL,Mar 5 2003 2:14PM,Kim Nichols,What kind of pressure can we put on corporations to help with dealing with the HIV/AIDS issue?,NULL
  212. 1123,Linda Kuruhara,"Call Jubilee USA Network in Washington, and pledge to support their campaigns through your churches!",Mar 5 2003 2:58PM,Kim Nichols,What is the best way for a church to be a voice in this effort to reduce debt and aids relief?,NULL
  213. 1124,Reid,"I'm not aware of IMF's contributions to fighting HIV/AIDS, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. The debt cancellation folks and others interested have lobbied long and hard for the abolition of structural adjustment policies which attach use fees to health care, education, and access to other public works. The IMF is beginning to let up on the SAPS. The WB is now giving loans ($1Billion) for HIV/AIDS programming in hardest-hit countries, through its MAP program. But these are loans, in countries which collectively are paying back already nearly $14 Billion per year to IMF/WB!",Mar 5 2003 2:55PM,Kim Nichols,"I have just recently completed Joesph Stiglitz's book on globalization. If it is all true, than the IMF has been a major contributor to poverty and health issues like the spread of HIV/AIDS. What is the IMF doing now in this area? Is making any positive contributions?",reid44@earthlink.net
  214. 1125,David Bryden,"I wanted to correct the URL I just gave for Global AIDS Alliance. It should read:
  215. globalaidsalliance.org/cd_action.html
  216.  
  217. I refer you to GAA to look at their ""Roadmap for Legislative Action to Stop Global AIDS""",Mar 5 2003 3:06PM,Kim Nichols,Now that Bush has made his proposal what is the role of congress and how can we have an impact on congress?,dbryden@globalaidsalliance.org
  218. 1126,Michelle Dixon,"Greatest question. The GF must STRONGLY encourage application of eligible countries for commodities. As it stands, more than 50% of requests for Fund dollars are currently for commodities, which include malaria and TB meds, bednets for malaria prevention, and a very small subset of requests for HIV medications. This is beginning to change, but without NGO/activist involvement in the proposal design and project implementation process, I fear will lag badly. Up to now, during first 2 GF rounds, countries have been shy about asking for ARV for HIV, though the second round requests increased greatly. the Fund can only encourage best practices, in this case the implementation of wide-scale ARV programs in the hardest hit countries, and as there is no upper limit in place on grant size, countries can feel free to propose ARV procurement in their plans. However, procurement also requires good supply chain management, quality assurance, etc.
  219.  
  220. The fund's position on IP re: medications is that the DOHA interpretation of the WTO is acceptable grounds for procurement of drugs via parallel importing or local manufacture of off-patent drugs.",Mar 5 2003 2:30PM,Kim Nichols,What role to you see the Global Fund as playing in promoting and ensuring access to medicications? Does the Fund have a position on curent trade negotiations as they relate to this issue?,mdixon@gwu.edu
  221. 1127,David Bryden,"Important. The GF is short nearly 500 million as it goes into releasing the announcement for the Third Round of GF applications. Bush's proposal of $15 Billion - $10 Billion of it in ""new"" money for global AIDS will go almost entirely to bilateral channels-which is where the meager US contribution for global AIDS has been primarily channeled since it began in the 90's. Bush's new pledge actually give less to the GF than it is currently giving (will give $200 million per year over 5 years-the 2002 contribution was $250 million). The average person can use legislative vehicles, such as pressure on their local elected officials, to up the US contribution to $3.5 billion for FY 2003 emergency supplemental funding and $3.5 Billion for FY 2004. Of this, at least $1.7 Billion should go to the Global Fund. And where the US leads, other members of the G-8 will follow.",Mar 5 2003 2:37PM,Kim Nichols,"Now that Bush has made his proposal on AIDS what happens next? Is there any way the average person can influence the process so the Global Fund does not reach a financial meltdown thanks to the stinginess of the US, Europe and Japan and others?",dbryden@globalaidsalliance.org
  222. 1128,David Bryden,"I have not heard any public statements of candidates about global AIDS as a campaign issue. I know that my colleagues from HealthGAP, and others, are planning to start chasing them in NH once the campaigning begins, to ensure that they start taking a stand on global AIDS issues early on.",Mar 5 2003 2:48PM,Kim Nichols,Have any of the candidates for President in the United States identified global AIDS as a key issue?,dbryden@globalaidsalliance.org
  223. 1129,Michelle Dixon,"This question is difficult for me to answer. I can only tell you that within the GF, there has been some jockeying for disease superiority. E.g, the number of specialists who review GFproposals who have a TB background was recently decreased, in favor of having more reviewers with a cross-cutting background (HIV/TB/Malaria) But that doesn't speak to how GF proportionately greater emphasis on HIV may have affected TB funding",Mar 5 2003 2:44PM,Kim Nichols,I was asked in a meeting with a Sentate staff member if the focus on AIDS within the Global Fund has conflicted with or decreased funding and support for TB related activities and I didn't have an adequate answer. Could you shed some light on this question for me?,mdixon@gwu.edu
  224. 113,Trent,"I am a lifelong feminist. I felt for a while now that it was time for feminists to look beyond our own borders and give a helping hand to other women who are not as far up the road in their struggles. When I joined the Feminist Majority the Taliban had only been in power in Afghanistan for a few months and as soon as I heard from our chairperson, Eleanor Smeal, what had happened to these women, I knew this was where I wanted to make a stand. I hoped that so many women would eventually join in that it would put the rest of the world on notice that things can no longer be done to women without the perpetrators having to deal with a terrible outcry from free women.",Mar 5 2002 10:31AM,Mavis Leno,How did you come to do this work and what inspires you to continue?,NULL
  225. 1130,Jeff,NULL,Mar 5 2003 2:34PM,Kim Nichols,"Back to the issue of corporations and their role in fighting AIDS. Many people argue that when corporations create programs for their workers (like Coke and certain minimg companies in S. Africa have begun to do), governments don't feel the same pressure to tackle AIDS because they believe the private sector is taking care of it, but really it's just a tiny sector of the population--the elites who work for major multinational firms--who get treatment. Also, corporations are afraid that many HIV-positive people will apply to work for them to get access to their programs, driving up their costs and down their productivity. Do you think it would be wiser for corporations to simply give money to the Fund and let the Fund get the money out to effective programs?",jallen300@yahoo.com
  226. 1131,Karina Lopez,"This is my last question- Emergency supplemental funding of $3.5 Billion for global AIDS for 2003 would be the right thing for Congress to do. Really, the fervor for war among many of the Democrats in Congress seems to just fill the void created by their lack of energy for other areas of global concern, such as health and development. Let's get them on a positive track to re-building human societies, rather than destroying them.",Mar 5 2003 3:16PM,Kim Nichols,"Kim, it's incredible to me how President Bush could say he wanted emergency action to fight AIDS but in the fine print of his plan it's anything but fast action. Is there anything Congress can do to speed things up -- what about providing money right away to the Global Fund? Or will the fervor for war among many in Congress distract them from this crisis?",lopezaction@yahoo.com
  227. 1133,Jim Steed,Talk to Int'l HIV/AIDS Alliance. Kieran Daly there is a member of the Northern NGO Delegation to the GF. He perhaps can help you identify ways in which advocacy directed towards the British govt could increase their contribution to the GF. The British delegation to the GF are generally pretty progressive. Folks from DFID are well-represented at the there.,Mar 5 2003 2:50PM,Kim Nichols,"Kim, I live in London. Is there anything I can do to help the Global Fund?",fawltytowers@yahoo.com
  228. 1134,Michelle Ruiz,"Are we still on? The global gag rule in fact is already affecting US contributions to UN agencies which provide important HIV prevention programs in the developing world, such as UNFPA, which provides all kinds of reproductive healthinterventions, as well as condoms. It's certainly affected Planned Parenthood International.",Mar 5 2003 3:01PM,Kim Nichols,"Kim - let me ask you, as a feminist what is your take on the gag rule, I mean where the US says it will not give money to programs that mention or even provide abortion as an option to women in family planning. I am not a big promoter of abortion but I think women need to know the fact and be able to decide for themselves. Could the gag rule be applied to AIDS programs the US supports and how would that affect them?",ruizisgreat@hotmail.com
  229. 1137,Billie Kim,"I'm not sure why the administration has stepped up their interest in AIDS in Africa, but if the money is spent wisely, it will be a good thing. I think we all need to let the President and Congress know our thoughts on how that money should be spent and hold them accountable for spending it wisely.",Mar 6 2003 1:59PM,Kay Marshall,Why do you think the Bush Administration suddenly has an interest in AIDS in Africa? Does it have to do with the war on terrorism? Traditionally Republicans have been weary in giving aid to African nations to combat HIV/AIDS!!!,talk2billie@email.com
  230. 1138,Moderator,Thanks Vicky. Thanks for inviting me. I hope I'll be able to answer people's questions about AIDS vaccines and the International AIDS Vaccine INitiative.,Mar 6 2003 1:45PM,Kay Marshall,Good afternoon. My name is Vicky Gou. I work as a web associate at the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF). I will be moderating today's chat. I would like to thank Kay Marshall from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative for joining us today.,vgou@feminist.org
  231. 114,Susan,"I am not sure if we have enough because I don't see the kind of coalitions that I value so much right now. It's really time we compromised a little and get to work to achieve total peace. I think women are at a crossroads. We are going to do it or we are not. This is an urgent call for action. I'm not going to rank violences, but we must do something about the violence.",Mar 5 2002 10:31AM,Minnijean Brown-Trickey,"What are some of the successes that have resulted from your work?
  232. ",NULL
  233. 1142,Jeff,I’m not a board member of the Global Fund. But certainly we support the GF and hope that the US government and other nations will provide their fair share of the funding needed and that the money will be used wisely for prevention and treatment programs where they’re most needed.,Mar 6 2003 2:08PM,Kay Marshall,"As a board member of the Global Fund, what are your thoughts on President Bush's new $15 billion AIDS plan?",vgou@feminist.org
  234. 1143,Peter,"One of the things that can be done is to make companies that are working in areas where there’s a large epidemic to provide treatment, education, and prevention development for their workers. In terms of vaccine development, it’s also important to make sure that pharm and biotech companies are involved in developing an AIDS vaccine.
  235.  
  236. The government should work to provide incentives to those companies to be involved in vaccine development.
  237. ",Mar 6 2003 2:11PM,Kay Marshall,What kind of pressure can we put on corporations to help with dealing with the HIV/AIDS issue?,vgou@feminist.org
  238. 1144,Claire,"That’s a great question. Most researchers working on AIDS vaccines think we will have at least a partially effective vaccine in the next 5 – 7 years. While that is in many ways a long way away, there is much to be done now to ensure that once we have a vaccine it will be made available to the people who need it the most as quickly as possibly. Since most of the people who desperately need a vaccine to prevent AIDS can’t afford it, we must also work now to ensure that funding mechanisms are in place. A vaccine against AIDS will also need to be given to adolescents and adults, rather than infants and children. So at the same time that research and development is going on, IAVI and other groups are working to ensure that manufacturing, distribution and financing plans for developing countries will be in place when we do have a vaccine.",Mar 6 2003 2:12PM,Kay Marshall,"In your opinion, how far is the medical community from developing
  239. an HIV vaccine? Are any tentative plans in the works as to how this vaccine
  240. will be distributed, if the government will subsidize the costs, and if the
  241. US and other industrialized nations will help (financially and logistically)
  242. make the vaccine available in less economically fortunate
  243. countries/continents (especially Africa)?
  244. ",vgou@feminist.org
  245. 1145,Jeff,"This is a difficult question. I think that all sectors of society -- private and governments have a responsibility to provide adequate treatment and prevention. Companies provising care shouldn't let the governments off the hook or vice versa. We need well-organzed multi-sector approaches in all countries. When we have a vaccine or other new prventive technologies, like microbicides, those should be a part of that response.",Mar 6 2003 2:14PM,Kay Marshall,"Back to the issue of corporations and their role in fighting AIDS. Many people argue that when corporations create programs for their workers (like Coke and certain minimg companies in S. Africa have begun to do), governments don't feel the same pressure to tackle AIDS because they believe the private sector is taking care of it, but really it's just a tiny sector of the population--the elites who work for major multinational firms--who get treatment. Also, corporations are afraid that many HIV-positive people will apply to work for them to get access to their programs, driving up their costs and down their productivity. Do you think it would be wiser for corporations to simply give money to the Fund and let the Fund get the money out to effective programs?",vgou@feminist.org
  246. 1146,Maya,I think in the US and Europe the media sometimes suffers from AIDS fatigue and doesn't cover the issues around AIDS nearly as much as in the past. That contributes to the impression that many people have that AIDS is a manageable disease. But infection rates in the US are on the rise again. In developing countries the issue is often that the stigma and politics surrounding AIDS may mean that the best information about AIDS is not published.,Mar 6 2003 2:19PM,Kay Marshall,What are some important issues dealing with HIV/AIDS that you don't hear about in the mainstream media?,vgou@feminist.org
  247. 1148,james m nordlund,"I think we face a lot of apathy NOW in terms of funding for existing prevention and treatment programs for AIDS, as well as for research into new technologies including vaccines, microbicides and new kinds of treatments. In the last couple of years more people have begun to pay attention to the global AIDS epidemic and more funding has been allocated for programs, but not nearly enough. We hope to have at least a partially effective vaccine in the next 5-7 years.",Mar 6 2003 2:25PM,Kay Marshall,"If the roots of* lack of compassion for the diseased and the en vogue economic tool war, one being psycho-pathic greed, aren't addressed in
  248. Western societies sociological programming of their populaces, won't the
  249. corporate structure's convolution's devolutionary direction eventually
  250. determine more apathy and social pathos in global society; ergo less funding for prevention, treatment, and research into curing AIDS, in the longrun?",vgou@feminist.org
  251. 1149,carol,"I haven’t heard of this research. It would be wonderful if it were true, but unfortunately, science usually doesn’t work that way. You can easily destroy HIV or other pathogens in a test tube, using any number of substances, but these things don’t usually work as vaccines or treatment, so we still need to continue our research for better treatments and preventive vaccines for HIV.",Mar 6 2003 2:30PM,Kay Marshall,"This is for kay, michelle and kim and all: at the end of the
  252. clinton admin. several years back, an article appeared in our local
  253. newspaper, for all accounts reputable, showing an article on the research
  254. done at the u. of michigan by , i think his name was Brown...in this article
  255. it specifically stated that they HAD THE CURE for aids, smallpox, and all
  256. deadly virus by using what what termed a nanobomb, which was suppose to
  257. attatch itself to any virus, etc. and destroy it...it was made of some kind
  258. of substance not harmful to the body...since that time, i read that the us
  259. government went there and took over the whole operation...and the news
  260. itself, and knowledge is being suppressed...i sent a copy of the article to
  261. Oprah, and several newschannels, who only could come up with the distraction
  262. of nanotechnology as in computers...nothing else mentioned about the
  263. research re' the rest. what do you know of this, and have you heard of it? I
  264. have no further info on the subject, except that it was reported out of one
  265. of the big meetings they held in washington state.",vgou@feminist.org
  266. 115,talbot_52,My life work is to live to spread the message of non violence to as many young people as I can.,Mar 5 2002 10:32AM,Minnijean Brown-Trickey,Can you describe the main goals of your work or your organization's work?,NULL
  267. 1150,jackie,"
  268. I think that the money could be spent wisely if it is part of a balanced and comprehensive response. By that I mean, it needs to include treatment for all members of a family, not just babies, and prevention and education programs. It should also include funding for research and development for new treatment and prevention technology such as microbicides and vaccines that are geared specifically for Africa and other parts of the developing world where AIDS is devastating families, communities and nations.
  269.  
  270. ",Mar 6 2003 2:33PM,Kay Marshall,"You mentioned earlier that if the Bush administration but spent the HIV/AIDS money wisely, it would be beneficial. Can you expound on what you consider ""wise"" spending?",vgou@feminist.org
  271. 1151,Dina,"I think I have a great job. I get to work on a project that means a lot to me personally and that will, I hope one day, help save the lives of millions of people. But because all of us at IAVI feel the pressure to make sure a successful vaccine is developed as quickly as possible, the workload and hours can sometimes be tough. I also get to spend a lot of time in Africa, which is so wonderful -- a beautiful continent with amazing people. But there you can't escape seeing firsthand the ravages of AIDS and that can be emotionally difficult. But I wouldn't trade my job for any other.",Mar 6 2003 2:37PM,Kay Marshall,Your job is clearly very meaningful. What gripes do you have about the work you do?,vgou@feminist.org
  272. 1152,Jeff,"Microbicides are substances that could be used to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV. They would be used in the vagina or anus before sex to kill the virus. Like vaccines, microbicides are still in testing and so not yet available. Microbicides, like vaccines, will be important to women, because they will give them more control over their own protection against HIV.",Mar 6 2003 2:41PM,Kay Marshall,"Could you explain microbicides, please. I've heard the word tossed around a lot but I don't really understand the science of AIDS and AIDS prevention/treatment very well.",jallen300@yahoo.com
  273. 1153,Jeff,We are an NGO -- a scientific research and advocacy organization working to ensure the development and eventual access to AIDS vaccines for developing countries. Our funding comes primarily from governments and private foundations.,Mar 6 2003 2:44PM,Kay Marshall,Could you explain IAVI too? Is it an independent NGO? Where does your funding come from? Thanks.,jallen300@yahoo.com
  274. 1154,Brad,NULL,Mar 6 2003 2:40PM,Kay Marshall,How did you react/respond to the removal of information re: condom efficacy in preventing HIV/AIDS and STIs from the CDC website?,vgou@feminist.org
  275. 1155,Julie Mikalson,"IAVI is working in Kenya, Ugnada and the UK right now. Other groups have trials are ongoing or pending in Brazil, the US and several European countries. India and China are working towards having AIDS vaccine trials. Many countries are very motivated to work on real answers to the epidemic.",Mar 6 2003 2:50PM,Kay Marshall,"Can you identify which countries are most amenable now to moving forward Trials, and to bringing in more test/research facilities? I am excited about the possibility to evaluate a new Chinese medicine, and hope to reduce soem of the hurdles.",tv4choice@yahoo.com
  276. 1156,kathy,"Most of IAVI's work is focused on preparing for vaccine trials, but we all have a responsibility to help overcome the stigma and misinformation that leads to such actions. Some of the work we do with the media in Africa helps to spread correct information about treatment and prevention. But we all need to do more.\r\n",Mar 6 2003 2:55PM,Kay Marshall,"How are you combatting the ""virgin"" cure problem that is so rampant in Africa? Men thinking they must sleep with a young virgin to rid themselves of disease?",kathy.knotts@thedailytimes.com
  277. 1157,Kerry,NULL,Mar 6 2003 5:01PM,Kay Marshall,Have the actions of the Bush administration made you more or less engaged in politics?,vgou@feminist.org
  278. 1158,Jeff,"There are 3 phases. Phase I tests for safety and has 20 - 50 volunteers at low risk of HIV infection. Phase II tests safety and doses (how many shots will be needed and what the timing will be)in 100-200 volunteers, some at high risk of infection, some at low risk. Phase III is an efficacy trial in thousands of volunteers at higher risk of HIV infection. A P. III trial will tell us if the vaccine works.",Mar 6 2003 2:46PM,Kay Marshall,"What are the various phases of trials? How does a potential vaccine get from one to the next, and how long does that generally take?",jallen300@yahoo.com
  279. 1159,Vinny,"That's a good question. The epidimic in China and the rest of Asia is not as advanced as the one in Africa, but is every bit as serious. I think there are a lot of lessons that we can take from Africa -- both about what was done and what was not done -- and apply them to dealing with the epidemic in Asia. In terms of vaccines for Asia, IAVI is working with both the Indian and Chinese government. We hope to have a trial going on in India in the next year or so and a bit later in China. If we are lucky and treatment and prevention plans are stepped up in Aisia, the epidmic won't become as severe as it is in many African countries.",Mar 6 2003 2:52PM,Kay Marshall,"There is so much publicity about AIDS in Africa. What's your take on the epidemic in Asia, particularly China? How would the strategy for dealing with AIDS in China differ from that in Africa?",vgou@feminist.org
  280. 116,Helen,"It was my civil rights experience in the 50's and 60's, what I considered the magical movements. I'd like to describe movement as simultaneous action occurring in different places. Absolutely amazing. Based on that I understand the potential for movement for social change, for peace, for everything.",Mar 5 2002 10:32AM,Minnijean Brown-Trickey,How did you come to do this work and what inspires you to continue?,NULL
  281. 1160,Moderator,"Thanks for having me. These were great questions. If you want more info about vaccines, go to IAVI's website --www.iavi.org.",Mar 6 2003 2:59PM,Kay Marshall,"Thanks Kay for taking the time to share your thoughts with us today. Good luck in your work. Thanks also to all those who joined in the chat. \r\n\r\nWe would appreciate your feedback about the chat. Please go to http://www.advancedsurvey.com to take a 2 minute survey. On the website, enter 4130 under “Take a Survey.” Thank you very much for your participation and feedback.",vgou@feminist.org
  282. 1164,Moderator,"Thank you. As you know tomorrow is international women's day, a day to celebrate women's lives, roles leadership as well as a day to strengthen our resolve to advocate for women’s rights worldwide\r\n<br><br>\r\nWomen in this country and around the world are using this day to push for recognition of their health and education rights, for access to decision making at all levels, for greater governmental corporate and international financial accountability to women's lives and rights as defined by international law.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIt is an important day to assess the performance then of Bush Administrations global policies in relation to their impact on women worldwide, particularly In the areas of women's health and the environment. This is particularly true given the timing, as this country is moving toward war, where the US administration is attempting to 'browbeat' and international cooperation to launch a preemptive strike. After two years of fighting, gutting and renouncing international cooperation on all levels. \r\n<br><br>\r\nFor a cleaner, healthier more sustainable environment, for protection of women's lives, health and freedoms, for arms control and global justice\r\n<br><br>\r\nThis failure to support international agreements hits hardest women worldwide. And women have been mobilizing for the last twenty years to build a strong global voice to protect women's health, to alleviate the global suffering of women worldwide due to bad development policies that also produce tremendous global environmental harm. By rejecting international consensus, by renouncing hard fought and carefully crafted international agreements, the Bush Administration is at once at war with the global women's movement and with our own best interest \r\n<br><br>\r\nBy renouncing international consensus on how to curb global warming, by cutting off funds to the United Nations Population Fund, by renouncing the 1995 Cairo agreement on population and women's development, by applying the global gag rule to funding for HIV AIDS, by fighting that women have a fundamental human rights to health care, the bush administration is making the world a harder place for women. And is fighting against commitments that the worlds women have built consensus around, have struggled to achieve.\r\n<br><br>\r\nThus the Bush administration has no credibility, no legitimacy in the eyes of the worlds women when he calls for international cooperation to launch a war, as he simultaneously renounces the requests, the demands the please that women have made for responsive, women centered US policies. They have fallen on deaf ears.",Mar 7 2003 1:52PM,Ellen Dorsey,"Dr. Dorsey, thank you so much for joining us today. The topic of this chat is: ""the Bush Administration's actions to undermine international cooperation that would protect women's reproductive health and the environment"". Can you start off the discussion by giving some examples of this type of action?",webmaster@feminist.org
  283. 1165,Mary,"What is ecofeminism? There is a rich and diverse literature about ecofeminism. FM and RCI are establishing a new web site on women and the environment, and we will provide you resources on ecofeminism.\r\n<br><br>\r\nBut the basic principle is that the blending of the feminist and environmental movements, because women and the environment have been subjugated, polluted and controlled by the patriarchal conviction that both nature and women were created for the use and profit of man. The right of man, as my student marie thormodsgard has said, have resulted in the mass destruction of the natural world and innumerable social ills that hard women from all walks of life, ethnicities, race, class, religion, sexual orientations and hemispheres. \r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\nEcofeminism fights for the rights of women and the environment that are intertwined in a multitude of ways\r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\nWomen in their family and community roles are often the first to feel the affects of environmental damage, in responding to toxic dumpings, pollution, environmental crises brought about by man made changes. They must find new sources of clean water, alleviate the suffering of the injured, provide food for their children. ON average, women in the developing world walk six kilometers each day to collect water, equivalent of carrying a suitcase. With a six fold increase e in global water use worldwide, with growing privatization of water, with reduction in fresh water, clean water.......women have to work harder and harder to simply provide enough water to feed their children and have their families survive.\r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\nWomen make critical consumption decisions- choosing whether to pass along toxins in breast milk or choose inadequate formulas, women must choose between serving up mercury laden tuna or GMO tacos for dinner, to drink tap water or drink from plastic bottles whose production process is altering the sex of local amphibians. Plastic or wood toys for their children, pesticides on the lawns?.....women make decisions about what their families consume and how those decisions in turn affect the environment\r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\nAnd women's bodies are often the markers of environmental harms and women are experiencing rising health epidemics that are being linked to environmental contaminants. Toxic chemicals and pesticides in the air, water and earth enter women's body tissue, breast milk and can be passed on to infants\r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\nWorldwide Women represent 2/3 of all illnesses caused by pollution, and worldwide air pollution kills three million people annually., it is also associated with incidence of respiratory infections lung diseases and low birth weight babies.\r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\nin the west there is an epidemic of miscarriages and fetal development disorders caused by overexposure to chlorine fifty years ago women ran a 1 in 22 risk of contracting breast cancer, now it is 1 in 8. breast cancer has been linked to the phenomenon of hormone mimicry which has environmental sources. Endometriosis is spiraling, along with utearan and ovarian cancers.\r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\nWomen flower workers in Colombia are exposed to 127 different toxic chemicals banned in the west and pass these chemicals onto their infants, where traces have been found in umbilical cords, water pollution in Russian rivers is cited as a factor in the doubling of bladder and kidney disorders in pregnant women.\r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\nSo eco feminism is both a conceptual framework for understanding the intersection between environmental harm and inequity and discrimination and it is a very real and concrete acknowledgement of how environmental damage is uniquely impacting women",Mar 7 2003 1:54PM,Ellen Dorsey,"What is ""ecofeminism""? How are women's issues and environmental issues linked?",webmaster@feminist.org
  284. 1166,Nakayinga Ritah,"TASO services as direct services have not gone to Karamoja yet. However\r\nindirect services - building capacity of communities and institutions to\r\nhandle their own HIV/AIDS issues are being implemented. For example, TASO is\r\nworking with the Moroto Missionary Hospital there. TASO is training the\r\nhospital to integrate TASOlike activities, - they are training nurses in\r\nHIV/AIDS counseling, medical personnel in HIV/AIDS/STD/TB management and\r\ncommunity volunteers in AIDS education, information and communication",Mar 19 2003 1:48PM,Sophia Mukasa Monico,Just wondering whether Taso services have got as far as karamoja.,nakayinga@yahoo.com
  285. 1167,Beth,"Environmental damage is harming ALL human health, children, men and women, and we continue our practices at our peril. But women are uniquely effected by environmental conatminants, as mentioned in the last response. Women are disproportionately impacted by air pollution, womens fertility is changing, womens breast, uteran, and ovarian cancers are spiralling. And women are passing along their chemical burden to their infants, as found in their umbilical cords and breast milk.",Mar 7 2003 1:56PM,Ellen Dorsey,Does the environment disproportionately impact women&#8217;s health?,bethsaderko@hotmail.com
  286. 1168,Beth,"Up until now, the Bush administration was reluctant to commit or free up funds for the fight on global AIDS, which in most societies disproportionately affects women. NGOs have been pushing Bush to ""pay our fair share"" to the UN Global Fund on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, calculated by our share of the global economy - that would be 3.5 billion annually. Before the State of the Union, Bush promised $500M, yet only $200M was delivered. Now Bush has promised $15B over $5 years, which is close ot the $3B annually. That's great, we should congratulate the recognition of our responsibilities, but we need to encourage that the money be given to the UN Global Fund and that it's unrestricted - i.e. not tied to other policies that discriminate against women. There are 2 warning flares that we should be paying attention to about the policy. As proposed, no money will be freed up in 2003. Only $700M in 2004 and Bush will only give $1B of the $15B to the UN. So, 1, will the money ever materialize given the cost of the war? And, 2, if it is controlled by the US, will our AIDS initiative be abstinence education? The second warning flare is that the Bush administration will apply the ""global gag rule"" to the AIDS financing.",Mar 7 2003 2:39PM,Ellen Dorsey,"During the State of the Union address, Bush announced that $15 Billion in funding will be allocated to combat the global Aids crises. What are your thoughts on this policy and how will it be implemented and monitored?",bethsaderko@hotmail.com
  287. 1169,Erin,NULL,Mar 7 2003 1:55PM,Ellen Dorsey,What do you think the environmental impact of a war with Iraq might be?,emcarmany@yahoo.com
  288. 1170,Parisfemme,"War always causes environmental damage- have no doubt, and if oil wells are attacked in retaliation it could be calamitous. But the environemntal issues with this war are much more multilayered. why is Iraq so straategicalyl significant? Are we really concerned with the bad policies of the Iraqi regime? do they have resources that fuel our consumption which in turn is causing tremendous environmental damage.If we begin with the analysis that we consume 25% of the world energy used annually, our consumption is a major factor in this war. our consumption is causing increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Our consumption is causing global warming. And we need oil.",Mar 7 2003 2:22PM,Ellen Dorsey,Do you feel that the issue of war on Iraq is also an environmental question?,Parisfemme@yahoo.com
  289. 1171,Debboez,"Coercive population programs are failed programs and they attemp to reduce population by limiting womens rights. At the United Nations World COnference on Population and Development, the global womens movement called for a new paradigm palcing womens education, empowerment and access to health care at the center, arguing for investment in rights over restriction of rights. Governments endorsed this approach. The Bush Administration has just renounced US support for the Cairo consensus. Coercive population programs do attack women in poverty in the south and further erode their rights. Perhaps we should control our consumption, it is more pressing than population growth.",Mar 7 2003 2:35PM,Ellen Dorsey,"What do you think about the ""population"" perspective/argument that supports abortion by accusing ""third world"" women of overpopulating and over-consuming the world's resources. Please tell me it's outdated and that there are other environmental perspectives which are pro-all women, doesn't blame the global south, and that connect the environment with a pro-choice perspective.",Parisfemme@yahoo.com
  290. 1172,reality,NULL,Mar 7 2003 2:04PM,Donna Lopiano,"If the roots of, lack of compassion for the disadvantaged women and the en",NULL
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