Health

Project Prevention: Mothers and Children Speak Out
Tamas Varga
May 21, 2012
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National Advocates for Pregnant Women offer a poignant video response to efforts to spread dangerous and dehumanizing claims about mothers who have used drugs.

How Can the U.S. Help the Roma?
Zeljko Jovanovic
May 15, 2012
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The U.S. has announced it will join, as an observer, the Decade of Roma Inclusion, an international initiative to improve the well-being of Europe's most vulnerable minority. The decision has not come a moment too soon.

Open Society Advances in 2010–2011
May 2012
This report documents our work around the world supporting a wide range of partners and grantees to strengthen rights and justice, health, media and information, governance and accountability, and education and youth.

Drug Users Burned by the System in Peru
Daniel Wolfe and Denise Tomasini-Joshi
May 13, 2012
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Recent fatal fires inside two drug detention centers in Peru shine a light on abusive practices and unjust detention of people in need of medical services, including those with intellectual disabilities.

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Call for Applications: Fellowships on Access to Medicines in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
May 2012
The Access to Essential Medicines Initiative seeks motivated candidates in Eastern Europe and Central Asia for its new Access to Medicines fellowship program. The deadline for applications for this 18-month, part-time fellowship is June 4, 2012.

Kenya’s High Court Strikes Down Anti-Counterfeit Act
Press Release
May 2, 2012
On April 20, 2012, Kenya’s High Court ruled that the Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008 violates the right to health and the right to dignity and life, and that intellectual property rights should not override these fundamental rights.

Parsons Fellows Provide Information Design Support for Public Health Program Grantees
May 2012
As the Open Society/Parsons Fellowship enters its sixth year, a new crop of Fellows will be heading to their host organizations to begin work on a range of health issues.

Advocates Meet to Strategize Future of Access to Medicines Movement
March 14, 2012
The Open Society Foundations brought together 30 activists from low resource countries to identify specific strategies and activities to grow the access to medicines movement.

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Ending Demand to End Sex Trafficking: Does it Work?
OSI-New York
April 12, 2012
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Experts discuss “end demand” campaigns that are primarily focused on abolishing prostitution by criminalizing the consumers of commercial sex. Are such policies effective in curtailing trafficking, and what impact do they have on marginalized communities?

Film Screening: Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits
OSI-New York
March 22, 2012
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Open Society Foundations hosts the New York premiere of the documentary, "Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits." Amy Goodman will moderate a panel discussion of the film.

Consumers in the Information Society
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
March 8, 2012
This event, organized by Open Society grantee Consumers International, addresses questions raised by digital technologies about a fair intellectual property regime that fosters access to knowledge.

Film Screening: They Took My Choice Away
OSI-New York
March 1, 2012
The Open Society Foundations present the New York premiere of "They Took My Choice Away," a short film about forced sterilization in Namibia. The premiere event includes a discussion with filmmaker Bob Sacha.

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