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Corporation to expand stray dog birth control programme

March 28, 2007

Chennai : The Chennai Corporation is planning a large-scale birth control programme for stray dogs in order to bring down their population in the city.

Every year, the Corporation sterilises about 10,000 dogs. With the increasing number of complaints related to stray dogs from city residents, the Corporation is looking to expand its animal birth control project.

A committee has been formed to monitor the programme. The Corporation Commissioner is its chairman and its members include a health official, a veterinary officer, a veterinarian, and representatives from Animal Welfare Board, Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and voluntary organisations such as People for Animals and Blue Cross.

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“There are about 40,000 stray dogs in Chennai that are yet to be sterilised,” said the Corporation Commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni. The total stray dog population in the city is estimated at 1.15 lakh.

About 13,000 dogs are caught every year and brought to the pound. About 90 per cent are sterilised; others are claimed by owners. To identify sterilised dogs, a small cut is made on one of the ears after surgery.

The dogs are vaccinated for rabies and are released after their surgical wounds are healed.

The Corporation will network with the Animal Husbandry department to bring more veterinarians for its birth control programme. The Corporation’s animal control unit can be reached at 26670593 between 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

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Daily Women’s Health Policy

March 27, 2007

The cost of birth control sold at student health centers on college campuses nationwide is increasing following a change in a Medicaid rebate law that reduced the incentive for pharmaceutical companies to provide large discounts on some drugs to universities, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. About 39% of undergraduate women use oral contraceptives, according to an estimate by the American College Health Association based on survey data. The change in the Medicaid law was prompted by a 2005 deficit-reduction bill that focused on Medicaid, according to the AP/Chronicle. Pharmaceutical companies before the bill had sold drugs at reduced costs to colleges and some other health care providers. According to the AP/Chronicle, the discounts “made business sense” because they involved attracting new customers and did not count against the companies in a formula that calculated rebates owed to states for participating in Medicaid. Changes to the law made in the 2005 measure, which went into effect in January, resulted in drugmakers having pay more to participate in Medicaid, and fewer drug companies are now providing prescription drug discounts, according to the AP/Chronicle.

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Many colleges tried to maintain costs for contraceptives for a few months by buying in bulk before the new law took effect, but now their stocks are low and they have had to increase prices. In addition, many students are only now seeing the cost increase because they fill their prescriptions quarterly. Some experts said that many students could switch to a generic form of birth control but that they might still pay double the previous rate. ACHA said that CMS should have included college health centers to the providers who are exempt from the law, and the group has supported a proposal to change the law. A CMS spokesperson said the agency is reviewing that proposal (Pope, AP/Houston Chronicle, 3/23).

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News from Upper Hudson Planed Parenthood

March 21, 2007

UHPP Helps Capital Region Back Up Their Birth Control With Free EC Day!

ALBANY, NY — (03/21/2007; 1221)(EIS) — Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood reports that nearly 300 Capital Region residents were able to back up their birth control at “Free Emergency Contraception (EC) Day” yesterday (Tuesday, March 20, 2007).

Free EC Day was developed as part of UHPP’s recognition of “Back Up Your Birth Control Day,” which has been celebrated around the country by women’s health organizations for the past six years. Men and women who came to any of UHPP’s four health centers (see locations below) yesterday during business hours received, on request, an EC/sexual health gift bag containing one packet of EC, medical information and instructions for use, two condoms, and information about EC, safer sex and UHPP services — all at no cost.

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UHPP has provided emergency contraception ever since it was first made available, and encourages all sexually-active women and couples who want to avoid unintended pregnancy to keep EC in their medicine cabinets in case of an emergency.

EC is backup birth control. It is a safe and highly effective method for preventing unintended pregnancy. While it is most effective if taken within 72 hours after unprotected sex, it can be taken up to five days after unprotected sex.

“Every woman deserves every chance to prevent an unintended pregnancy,” said Patricia McGeown, President and CEO of UHPP. “We know that accidents happen. Condoms sometimes break. Women forget to take their birth control pills. Alcohol can impair judgment. And sexual violence is an all too prevalent reality.

“The message we sent with Free EC Day is that those who are sexually active should not wait until an emergency happens. Men and women who are sexually active should keep EC in their medicine cabinet so it is there when needed.”

UHPP health centers are located at 259 Lark Street in downtown Albany, in the Hendrick Hudson Building on lower Broadway in downtown Troy, in the Shaker Plaza on Rt. 155 in Latham and on Rt. 9 in Greenport, just north of Hudson.

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Animal birth control scheme in new areas

March 15, 2007

BANGALORE: The Government has directed the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to start animal birth control programme in the new areas (of the erstwhile city municipal councils and the town municipal council) from March 27.

At a meeting convened to discuss the stray dog menace, Chief Secretary P.B. Mahishi directed BBMP Commissioner K. Jairaj to deploy the services of a team from Ahmedabad, headed by Rahul Saigal, to conduct the programme using “Trap, Neuter and Release” (TNR) technique on a pilot basis for 8,000 dogs.

According to a press release, the civic body has started work on setting up three new dog pounds at a cost of Rs. 30 lakh.

These pounds would be ready by March 25. The dog-catching drive and the birth control programme would be intensified after that, the release said.

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Mr. Mahishi also directed the BBMP health officials to issue pet licences in all the 30 ranges from March 20. To clear misconceptions about stray dogs among people and also to create awareness about precautions against dog-bites, the officials and non-governmental organisations have been directed to conduct workshops and meetings with members of residents welfare associations.

Compact discs

A group of animal rights activists on Tuesday met Governor T.N. Chaturvedi and submitted compact discs containing footage of stray dogs being culled in Mandya district.

They complained to the Governor that the Mandya Municipal Council had hired the services of the Malabar team to catch the dogs and kill them by injecting poison. Then the carcasses were dragged and dumped in the most inhuman way, the activists told the Governor.

The Governor reportedly expressed shock over the incident and assured action in the matter

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PLCPD hits gov’t view on migration as birth-control method

March 12, 2007

The Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development Foundation, Inc. (PLCPD) has expressed alarm over alleged government statement suggesting that overseas migration of Filipinos could help mitigate population explosion.

Romeo Dongeto, acting executive director of PLCPD, said Friday that the assumption that sending more Filipino workers abroad could encourage abstention from sexual practices, resulting in longer spaces for births, is baseless.

He said the government must prove that “migration of Filipino workers, particularly of women, has any significant impact on our population growth rate.”

He said “to think that overseas migration as a solution to population explosion is a dangerous assumption we must guard against.”

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He said that the ballooning population and the lack of a comprehensive national policy to ensure access to information and services on reproductive health are problems that require policy interventions the government and Congress must begin to work on.

In a statement during the commemoration of the declaration of the International Women’s Day, the Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA) also expressed alarm over the rising number of OFWs “abandoning” their family obligations.

The CMA said that the rising number of Filipino women leaving the country threatens the country’s health. It said the mothers usually take care of home remedies in times of illness.

Citing 2003 data, the CMA said that the country’s health industry is teetering because of the exodus of our health professionals. It said that 200 hospitals have stopped operation since 2003 and 800 more have settled on partial operation because of the shortage of health professionals.

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City Tries Birth Control on Squirrels

March 8, 2007

anta Monica’s Palisades Park has not had luck controlling their squirrel population with euthanasia, poison or gassing, so this summer, an immuno-contraceptive vaccine will be injected in them to stunt sexual development as a form of birth control.

The squirrels, which officials say are a public health risk, number around 1,000 and can be aggressive, also possibly carrying rabies, or fleas, which could carry diseases like bubonic plague. LA County has cited the city 5 times since 1998.

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The vaccine stops lactation and ovulation in females and testicular growth in males, and have no side effects. It was developed by the US Dept. of Agriculture, and cost $2-10. Berkeley is the only other city to try this method.

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Santa Monica to try birth control shots to stop squirrel boom

March 6, 2007

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Officials have tried poison, gassing and euthanasia to control a breeding frenzy among squirrels in a city park here. Now, they plan to give birth control a shot.

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