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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:34:37 -0400
From: Orit Halpern <ohalpern@hsph.harvard.edu>
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To: PROGRESSIVE POPULATION NETWORK <ppn@csf.colorado.edu>
CC: "Ra'eda al'Zubi" <ralzubi@hsph.harvard.edu>
Subject: Reproductive Technologies Website
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Dear Colleagues:

I'm writing to inform you about the Global Reproductive Health Forum
(GRHF), at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet, an
Internet networking project about reproductive health and gender based
at the Harvard School of Public Health. This website is a tool allowing
students, researchers, and activists interested in reproductive
technologies and gender to rapidly access new information and
discussions on these questions.

The current discussions of reproductive health on the internet often
fail to encourage original approaches and critical analysis of the ideas
of reproduction, gender and rights. The need for innovative work and
ideas cannot be overstated. Even more pressing, is the necessity of
allowing these ideas a space for representation and distribution on the
internet. We seek to encourage the proliferation of critical discussions
about reproductive health and gender on the net, through providing
interactive fora located in Southern countries, encouraging the
participation of underserved groups, and soliciting material from a
variety of disciplinary perspectives for distribution through our
website.

The website provides a free gateway to an extensive archive of
on-line information about:

- Gender, Biology and Technology
- Reproductive Rights
- HIV/AIDS
- Emerging Reproductive Technologies
- Biomedical information pertaining to Reproductive Health

We also work in partnership with academics, activists, and libraries in
South Asia to electronically publish original work on issues of gender,
health and notions of development. The South Asia project is currently
on-line at
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/SAsia/forum.html .

Your input and participation are invaluable to us.  We encourage you to
submit your articles and viewpoints, and to give us feedback, both on
our main Website and on our regional project sites. You can submit
material through the website or by e-mailing us at
grhf@hsph.harvard.edu.

If you would like more information on our project, please contact us at
the above e-mail address.

We look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Sincerely,
Orit Halpern
--
Orit Halpern, MPH.
Project Manager
Global Reproductive Health Forum
Harvard School of Public Health
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/
Tel: (617)432-2936
Fax: (617)566-0365
E-mail:ohalpern@hsph.harvard.edu