REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INITIATIVE
Providing the Gift of Wellness
Empowerment Resource Center (ERC) will increase access to Chlamydia,
Gonorrhea, Syphilis, and HIV counseling, testing, and treatment services for young women ages 15-25
and their partners
through its Reproductive Health Initiative (RHI).
Thanks to a generous grant from the Elton John AIDS Foundation, this initiative will provide
low-cost screening and treatment services for sexually transmitted infections (STI).
ERC projects that approximately 350 women and their partners will benefit
from its Reproductive Health Initiative. ERC has launched this raise funds to
concerted effort to cover the cost of this needed low-cost service for women
most vulnerable to Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, and HIV.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
A
Gift of Wellness Health Scholarships
can reduce infertility in the state of Georgia.
Your donation will provide a health scholarship for a young woman in need.
All donations are tax deductible.
Uninsured and underinsured women who are already battered by
the current economic climate, living in shelters, and struggling with more
pressing life issues, tend to forgo these vital screenings. If these
preventable infections go undetected and untreated, the end result is
infertility and, in some cases, cervical abnormalities.
SERVICES OFFERED UNDER THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INITIATIVE:
In national comparisons, Georgia ranks 2nd in primary and secondary Syphilis, 6th in Gonorrhea,
and 13th in Chlamydia cases in 2009.
The most current epidemiological profile in Georgia
reflects that Chlamydia infection rates are highest in the 15 to 19
years of age range and those in their early twenties.
When segmented by gender, Chlamydia infection rates in females
were three times higher than in males.
Gonorrhea infection rates in Georgia were 30 times higher in
African-Americans than in Whites.
For more information about the Reproductive Health Initiative
Please Contact the Clinic Director Email: Clinic@EmpowerYoungWomen.org
Phone: (404) 526-1148
Reproductive Health Initiative Sponsors The Reproductive Health Initiative is funded in part by:
