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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 1911 two major purity organizations the American Purity Alliance and the American Vigilance Committee[1] joined 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[2] (and tendencies) merged to form the American Social Hygiene Association, which was renamed in 1914[citation needed] 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

References/footnotes

  1. ^ Founded by Jane Addams, Grace Dodge and David Starr Jordan oa. in 1906.
  2. ^ Including the American Society for Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, founded by Morrow in 1905.


 
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