PCI-Media Impact Announces the launch of the Women's Health Center at PCI-Media Impact in partnership with the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics and Femmes Africa Solidarite

PCI-Media Impact is pleased to announce the launch of our Women's Health Center and to welcome Femmes African Solidarite (FAS) and the International Humanist and Ethical Union's (IEHU) Appignani Center for Bioethics as founding members. This program aims at supporting grassroots women’s health organizations develop their own resources to address the global status of women’s health. The Women's Health Center enables these organizations to merge their resources and develop new, innovative strategies to improve the lives of the world’s most vulnerable women.

The center's first event will be held on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 in New York. The event is entitled "Health and Empowerment: The impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic worldwide and Female Genital Mutilation in African Diaspora Communities” and is sponsored by PCI-Media Impact and the IHEU Appignani Center for Bioethics with the United Nations under the auspices of the Division for the Advancement of Women, Commission on the Status of Women.

For more information click here or visit IHEU's website at www.iheu.org.

The panel will convene bioethicists, physicians and activists to discuss the health and empowerment of women, focusing on the international HIV/AIDS epidemic, female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa, and immigrant communities living in Western nations.

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