* The Globe and Mail reports that citizen’s of Moncton New Brunswick will be subjected to the first Gay Pride parade in their community tomorrow.
* ABORTION PROMOTING RADIO IN CHINA -In a partnership between the China Family Planning Association, IPPF and the BBC, Sexwise, IPPF’s radio broadcast series is due to be launched in China on the 18th July in Mandarin on the BBC World Service. It will provide sex education and cover a variety of issues regarding sex and reproductive health.
* ABORTION PROMOTING RADIO IN AFRICA – IPPF’s first Sexwise project for Africa will be launched in Ghana on 27th June with regular broadcasts on all issues relating to sexual and reproductive health starting on 7th July. Millions of listeners across Africa will be able to tune into the BBC World Service for sex education information and discussion. A Sexwise hotline has also been set up in Ghana and a Sexwise guide will be made available shortly.
* Catholic World News reports that some Brazilian bishops have expressed support for allowing the use of condoms to combat AIDS, according to the bishops’ conference’s Health Pastoral committee. The French bishops’ conference floated the idea in 1996, but the Vatican quickly reiterated that artificial contraception is always unacceptable proposing instead chastity before and faithfulness during marriage.
* An “International Conference on Adolescent Reproductive Health: Evidence and Programme Implications for South Asia” will take place in Bombay in November. The conference will be organized by the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility, the Institute for Research in Reproduction, and the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction.