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Every year, the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign either introduces a new theme, or continues an old theme. The theme focuses on one particular area of gender inequality and works to bring attention to these issues and make changes that will have an impact.
The group tries to get healthcare providers to sign the No Free Lunch pledge.Health care professionals who take the pledge agree to: accept no money, gifts, or hospitality from the pharmaceutical industry; to seek unbiased sources of information and not rely on information disseminated by drug companies; and to avoid conflicts of interest in [their] practice, teaching, and/or research.
[1] In the activism for Violence Against Women (VAW), the objectives are to address and draw public attention to the issues of VAW as well as seek and recommend measures to prevent this violence. [2] Many scholarly articles suggest that the VAW is considered a violation of human rights, [3] [4] [5] as well as a public health issue. [6]
WHM activism covers topics such as access to reproductive technology and birth control, sterilization abuse, advocating against unnecessary medical intervention during childbirth, increasing access to healthcare through the creation of feminist health centers and self-help clinics, teaching women about their bodies, discovering the history of ...
Among corporate America’s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. Nestled amid rolling farmland, the Benedictine sisters of Mount St. Scholastica ...
40 Days for Life, an anti-abortion activist group, named for the pattern of several biblical events lasting 40 days. [4]Abolitionists Rising (formerly Free The States), a national, Protestant anti-abortion organization based in Oklahoma that advocates for the total abolition of abortion.
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Despite the importance Medicaid places on providing access to health care, many states have inconsistent policies toward paying for medications used to treat opiate addiction. The American Society of Addiction Medicine surveyed each state’s Medicaid program to determine which medications are covered and if any limitations exist.