Category: Ashley Judd

  • Will Trump’s Global Family Planning Cuts Cause Side Effects?

    Actress and U.N. Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador Ashley Judd visited a refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan in 2016. AP Photo/Raad Adayleh Written by Rachel Sullivan Robinson, American University School of International Service President Donald Trump is leading an assault on family planning around the world. Most recently, his administration cut off U.S. contributions to the…

  • How PSI Keeps Sex Workers Safe in Haiti

    How PSI Keeps Sex Workers Safe in Haiti

    By Ashley Judd, PSI Global Ambassador A woman will do whatever is needed to feed her family. In a brothel in downtown Port Au Prince, you see just that. Twenty women, all of them mothers, were clustered in the front room. The cement walls were sparsely decorated with stenciled yellow stars. With few options but…

  • Join Ashley Judd In Supporting Health Workers in Haiti

    Join Ashley Judd In Supporting Health Workers in Haiti

    By Ashley Judd, PSI Global Ambassador Virgila is more charismatic and animated than most actors I know. She’s a PSI-trained health worker on the outskirts of Port Au Prince, Haiti. And she’s passionate about her work. She goes door-to-door educating women about the benefits of reversible contraception like the IUD. Giving birth is dangerous business…