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The following is an article written (translated from Spanish) by CIMAC Noticias, a Mexican organization. ----------------- A Year of Challenges for Sexual and Reproductive Health For Women By Patricia Alicia and Ana Silvia Monzón<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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As Robert Walker, Executive Vice President for the Population Institute outlines in his article, Family Planning: 'The Best of Times, the Worst of Times', the United States and other countries are significantly cutting funding for international family planning programs. Such cuts will prove detrimental to global efforts aimed at reducing maternal and infant mortality, thwarting the efforts of

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As Guatemala’s fiercely contended presidential elections loom in September, the nation is being ravaged by escalating violence, exacerbated by narcotrafficking. Below Karina Obregon, WINGS’ Youth and Family Planning Educator in the Petén—Guatemala’s northernmost department where we partner with an environmental conservation NGO—talks about working in such a volatile region. Karina’s story

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Amanda’s sister persuaded her to tag along to a WINGS clinic in their community near Patzun. Despite being sexually active since marrying six years ago, 27-year old Amanda had never thought to get a cervical cancer test. At the WINGS’ mobile clinic she listened to a short talk explaining what cervical cancer is, risk factors, symptoms, and treatment and decided to get tested. She was pleased

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Globalpost recently published a powerful article about the horrific levels of chronic child malnutrition in Guatemala, outlining the vital role family planning has to play in tackling this issue (link below).  Despite being a major food exporter, Guatemala’s rate of malnutrition in children under five is one of the highest worldwide, behind only Afghanistan and Yemen. As the author Lomi Kriel

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We’re delighted to report that our 10th Anniversary is being celebrated in style with a range of events thanks to our terrific supporters from around the US. Since we kicked off the celebrations ourselves here in Guatemala with the premiere of our new film at the beautiful Panza Verde Hotel in March, events from Latin lunches to dessert parties to cocktail nights are being planned and executed

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Here Lester R. Brown of  IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Foundation) highlights the urgent need to address the global community's rapid growth in population. WINGS provides reproductive education and access to family planning services in Guatemala to allow families to chose the number of children they wish to have and when. This not only empowers individual families and communities, but

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WINGS’ story began 10 years ago when Sue Patterson received a request from a friend to fund voluntary tubal ligations for 7 women who each had at least 8 children. Realizing the immense need for reproductive health and family planning services in Guatemala, Sue founded WINGS. Today, WINGS runs five programs that reach more than 30,000 women, men and youth annually and that have won

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Earlier this month, a small team from PBS's NewsHour followed WINGS' family planning promoter Evelyn Roquel while she provided reproductive health education to underserved Guatemalans in rural communities. Read the producers' blog entry about the experience here. Reporter's Notebook: The Family Planning Frontier in Guatemala By: Ray Suarez A week of

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“WINGS comes to our communities despite the distance, and only charges us $3 for the operation” - Luciana<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

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While it does not take a scientist to point out that high population growth rates are contributing to climate change – more people, more emissions – addressing exponential population growth, and the family planning that would be necessary to slow it, has remained on the sidelines of climate change discussions and policy approaches. This oversight, however, might be about to change. A recent

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In an increasing effort to promote WINGS’ work through multimedia, WINGS’ Advocacy Coordinator, Angelina Gonzalez, recently went on Maya News C’at Radio to discuss WINGS’ work in Guatemala. Here is what Angelina had to say about the experience: “During the interview, I had the opportunity to explain the work that WINGS is doing through their programs. Among the topics discussed were the

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This past month, our WINGS for Men coordinator, Adriana Smith, had the fortunate opportunity to attend and present at a conference in Brasilia, Brazil on “Men’s Health of the Americas” as a representative of WINGS and of Guatemala.The United Nations Population Fund in Brazil organized and funded the event in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Brazil. Representatives from Argentina,

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As a new intern development officer with WINGS, I was very excited to make my first trip into ‘the field’ where much of WINGS’ work takes place. I was to tag along with our team of youth educators to a small town called Tecpan located about two hours away from our Antigua office, where they planned to give a sexual education workshop to about 30 youths. This was my chance to see WINGS’ team of

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WINGS has been fortunate enough to host numerous, well-qualified volunteers in 2010. Here is what one volunteer, Shelly Cooper, said about working for WINGS’ Cervical Cancer Detection and Treatment Program this summer:“I couldn’t have spent my summer off from medical school working with a more valuable program than WINGS’ cervical cancer program. After reviewing patient charts and attending

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“...In particular, I will not forget a lady who traveled 6 hours by chicken bus to talk to Peter and me for a mere 15 minutes. She came to visit us at a WINGS mobile cervical cancer screening clinic where we were filming women in group discussions to share her experience of being diagnosed with cervical cancer and undergoing treatment arranged and subsidized by Wings. On a personal note, she

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In May, WINGS contracted award-winning documentary filmmaker Peter Jordan to produce a short film on WINGS’ work. Here is the first-part of the description by WINGS volunteer Natasha Pizzey-Seigert of her experience working on the film project: “For me, there could be no better to way to spend a month. When the film project came up I had been volunteering with WINGS for a few months and was

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Last week, the Lancet published a study reporting that worldwide maternal mortality rates significantly improved over the past 30 years, suggesting that family planning and reproductive health programs are making a measurable impact and saving the lives of women around the world. While we at WINGS join in recognizing this as a significant victory for women across the world, we are simultaneously

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We are very excited to introduce our newest tool that will allow us to connect with our supporters and generate discussion on Family Planning and Reproductive Health in Guatemala. The aim of our blog is to keep you updated on new developments at WINGS as well as current issues surrounding Family Planning and Reproductive Health in Guatemala and across the world. The WINGS blog will also feature

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