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Hepatitis C Testing Day Offered on May 16 as Part of National Prevention Effort

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:53:11 -0400

Area organizations are working together in a new initiative to address the growing incidence and impact of viral hepatitis. The initiative's first event will be a Hepatitis C Free Testing Day on Wednesday, May 16.

Local Planned Parenthood Launches New Tumblr for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month

Wed, 02 May 2012 13:17:53 -0400

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood in Albany, New York, recently launched a new Tumblr called OMG!PP (omgpp@tumblr.com ) just in time for National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month.

Planned Parenthood Supports National Minority Health Month

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:02:02 -0400

April is National Minority Health Month and April 15-21 is National Minority Cancer Awareness Week. Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood (UHPP) is using this opportunity to advance the health of people of color in the Capital Region with a reminder to ...

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood Supports National Campaign Encouraging Young People to "GYT"

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:02:25 -0400

Throughout April, Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood (UHPP) will be collaborating with local student groups in the national GYT: Get Yourself Tested campaign, as part of national STD Awareness Month. This year GYT launched new initiatives on-air, o...

Local Planned Parenthood Receives National Recognition

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:03:07 -0400

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood (UHPP) representatives flew to Portland, Oregon in late March to receive a national award for affiliate excellence in advertising and marketing from Planned Parenthood Federation of American at the national organiza...

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood President/CEO Patricia McGeown to Step Down

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:01:56 -0500

Patricia A. McGeown, longtime President/CEO of Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood, has announced that she will leave her position in August 2012. According to Deborah Rosen Zamer, Chairperson of the UHPP Board of Directors, a Search Committee has b...

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood Successfully Completes Capital Campaign

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:01:46 -0500

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood has announced the successful completion of its Expanding Access* Meeting Needs Capital Campaign. The campaign raised $1,610,435 from grants and local contributors in two years to support the relocation of the UHPP ...

Planned Parenthood Celebrates National Condom Week with Four Scheduled Pub Crawls

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:02:32 -0500

Cupid is on the prowl in the Capital Region, encouraging innocent bystanders to fall in love -- and sometimes into bed. So, Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood volunteers will be out in force to make sure those who fall from Cupid's arrows are at leas...

On the Obama Announcement Regarding New Rules Regarding Birth Control Access

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:14:41 -0500

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood is pleased to hear that the Obama administration has affirmed the importance of women's access to birth control. In response to mounting concerns-and quite honestly an alarming misinformation campaign mounted by opp...

A Great Moment for Women and America

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:33:41 -0500

STATEMENT BY PATRICIA MCGEOWN, UHPP PRESIDENT/CEO

Local Planned Parenthood Staff and Patients React With Dismay to Komen Foundaton Decision

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:43:53 -0500

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood President/CEO Patricia McGeown today expressed her agency's alarm and disappointment in response to the national announcement that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation will stop funding breast cancer preventio...

39th Anniversary of Roe Celebrated

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:03:09 -0500

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood will honor the New York Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Rights Project as a Champion of Choice at its annual celebration of the historic Roe v. Wade decision on January 19, 2012 at the Fort Orange Club in downtow...

50 Capital Region Residents Head to Capitol To Lobby For Sex Ed and Women's Health

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:01:58 -0500

Fifty people from Albany, Columbia, Greene and Rensselaer counties joined four hundred advocates from around New York State at the Capitol today for a Day of Action focused on preserving access to affordable family planning services, expanding the...

POWER for Bliss Towers

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:00:45 -0500

At a graduation ceremony held at Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood's Hudson health center on Thursday morning, December 15, 2011, four Hudson residents received certificates for completing training as adult peer outreach assistants for the Women's H...

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood Commemorates World AIDS Day

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:01:38 -0500

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood's (UHPP) high school peer educators, S.T.A.R.S. (Seriously Talking About Responsible Sex) will provide tours and lead workshops November 29 through Wednesday, December 1 at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center d...

Tea Party Republicans Attack Birth Control Coverage

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:54:23 -0400

"Today the Tea Party Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives showed just how far they are willing to go to control the ability of American women and families to decide when and whether to have children," said Patricia A. McGeown, Presiden...

Rep. Gibson votes to deny lifesaving emergency health care to women

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:52:57 -0400

Again demonstrating his willingness to focus on legislation that undermines women's health over legislation to help create jobs and stimulate the economy, Rep. Chris Gibson voted today in favor of H.R. 358. Among other dangerous health care provis...

Planned Parenthood: Republican Proposal Would Deny Women Access to Needed Services

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:02:06 -0400

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood (UHPP) President/CEO Patricia McGeown today decried the draft FY 2012 funding bill just released by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-HHS as politically motivated and dangerous to the health care of wom...

Local College Students Kick Off Week of Action on Sex Education

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:01:42 -0400

As students and educators settle back into the school year, Planned Parenthood VOX chapters at the University at Albany and RPI will join hundreds of other students across the country who are participating in a National Sex Ed Week of Action.This ...

Planned Parenthood Campaign Breaks with Tradition

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:01:52 -0400

There is nothing new about a health care institution featuring the personal testimonies of their patients in ad campaigns-unless that health care institution is Planned Parenthood. That's why the current ad campaign by Upper Hudson Planned Parenth...

Local Planned Parenthood Names New Board Members, Officers

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:00:30 -0400

New members and officers have been elected to the Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood Board of Directors for the 2011-2012 term.

Planned Parenthood Offers FREE HIV Testing

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:01:10 -0400

Marking National HIV Testing Day on June 27, Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood will host FREE HIV testing at their Albany and Troy locations to encourage sexually active women, men, and teens to get tested. Free HIV testing will also be offered at ...

Capital Region Agencies Offer Free HIV Testing

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:01:30 -0400

Once again, local health and human service agencies concerned with the continuing epidemic of HIV/AIDS are cooperating to mark National HIV FREE testing day. FREE HIV Testing will be available at a wide variety of locations throughout Albany, Col...

Local Volunteers, Activists, Philanthropists Honored by Planned Parenthood

Tue, 24 May 2011 06:10:11 -0400

Linda Leue of Albany has been recognized by Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood as its 2010 Outstanding Volunteer of the Year. Leue's many activities in support of the agency include serving as a patient escort on days of anti-choice picketing, helpin...

Rensselaer County Volunteers, Philanthropists Honored

Tue, 24 May 2011 06:07:02 -0400

Judith Maguire of East Greenbush was recently recognized by Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood for 20 years of volunteer service. For the majority of those years, Maguire has served as a patient escort, greeting patients on days of anti-choice picket...