American Social Health Association
- American Social Health Association
The American Social Health Association (ASHA) is an American non-profit organization established in 1914, has been involved in improving the health with a center of attention on put a stop to Sexually Transmitted Diseases and infections (STDs/STI) and their dangerous consequences. ASHA provides tips for reducing risk, and ways to talk with health care providers and partners.
The idea formed as in the U.S alone STDs/STIs affected there are approximately 19 million new cases each year1, and about half of which occur among youth ages 15-24 years.
History
ASHA's roots stretch back to the Progressive-era social purity movement. In 1912 two major purity organizations the "American Purity Alliance" and the "National Vigilance Committee" [Founded by Jane Addams, Grace Dodge and David Starr Jordan oa. in 1906.] joined with other state and city based organizations to form the "American Vigilance Association". Groups that were more medically-oriented elected in 1910 Prince A. Morrow as president of the "American Federation for Sex Hygiene". After Morrow's death in 1913 both organizations [Including the "American Society for Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis", founded by Morrow in 1905.] (and tendencies) merged to form the "American Social Hygiene Association", which was renamed in 1914Fact|date=July 2007 to the "American Social Health Association".
Initial influential figures:
* John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (initial financial contributor)
* Charles William Eliot (president of Harvard University)
* Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull House)
* William Snow (Stanford University professor and secretary of the California State Board of Health)
* Thomas Hepburn (leader of the Connecticut social hygiene movement)
* David Starr Jordan (chancellor of Stanford University)
* James Cardinal Gibbons (Baltimore, philanthropist)
See also
* Social hygiene movement
* Maurice Bigelow
External links
* [http://www.ashastd.org ASHA Homepage]
* [http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/ead/swha/sw0045.xml Finding aid for the ASHA records at the University of Minnesota]
References/footnotes
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