Comments on: Women’s Health, Immigrant Rights, and Reproductive Justice Organizations Write the CDC to Oppose HPV Vaccination Requirement http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/01/women%e2%80%99s-health-immigrant-rights-and-reproductive-justice-organizations-write-the-cdc-to-oppose-hpv-vaccination-requirement Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:14:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Elena http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/01/women%e2%80%99s-health-immigrant-rights-and-reproductive-justice-organizations-write-the-cdc-to-oppose-hpv-vaccination-requirement/comment-page-1#comment-2442 Elena Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:33:12 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=3319#comment-2442 For stories from individual women about this requirement, more information, and some of the organizing NAPAWF and other reproductive justice organizations are involved in- we've produced a half-hour radio documentary on the topic. The program is called "Guard Us All? Immigrant Women and the HPV Vaccine." You can listen here: http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2009/1309.html Advocates argue that this vaccine is a new chapter in a history of reproductive oppression that targets women of color and immigrant women. On this edition of "Making Contact," we have the voices of activists, doctors, attorneys and women most affected by the vaccination requirement. Featuring: Fatima Quraishi, Pakistani immigrant; Priscilla Huang, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum policy and programs director; Dr. Deblina Datta, CDC division of STD Prevention; Jessica Gonzalez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health director of policy and advocacy; Loretta Ross, SisterSong founding member; Beth Stickney, Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project executive director and attorney; Woman client (name withheld for confidentiality and safety), immigrant from Chile; Nial Cox Ramirez, and Elaine Riddick Jessie, residents of North Carolina and subjects of sterilization. For stories from individual women about this requirement, more information, and some of the organizing NAPAWF and other reproductive justice organizations are involved in- we’ve produced a half-hour radio documentary on the topic. The program is called “Guard Us All? Immigrant Women and the HPV Vaccine.” You can listen here:
http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2009/1309.html

Advocates argue that this vaccine is a new chapter in a history of reproductive oppression that targets women of color and immigrant women. On this edition of “Making Contact,” we have the voices of activists, doctors, attorneys and women most affected by the vaccination requirement.

Featuring:
Fatima Quraishi, Pakistani immigrant; Priscilla Huang, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum policy and programs director; Dr. Deblina Datta, CDC division of STD Prevention; Jessica Gonzalez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health director of policy and advocacy; Loretta Ross, SisterSong founding member; Beth Stickney, Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project executive director and attorney; Woman client (name withheld for confidentiality and safety), immigrant from Chile; Nial Cox Ramirez, and Elaine Riddick Jessie, residents of North Carolina and subjects of sterilization.

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