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Cheryl Wetzstein

cwetzstein@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Wetzstein, a Washington Times staff member since 1985, is manager of special sections in The Washington Times' Advertising and Marketing Department.
Previously, she spent 30 years as a Washington Times news reporter, covering national domestic policy, in addition to being a features writer, environmental and consumer affairs reporter, and assistant business editor.
Beginning in 1994, Mrs. Wetzstein worked exclusively on welfare and family issues such as child support enforcement, abstinence and sex education, child welfare, sexually transmitted diseases, marriage, divorce, cohabiting and gay marriage.
She has won several newspaper awards, including 1977 Cub Reporter of the Year and 1983 Heart of New York award, both from the New York Press Club.

Articles by Cheryl Wetzstein

Study debunks domestic-violence screening

Screening all women about domestic-violence experiences when they visit a health clinic doesn’t prevent future abuse or result in improved lives, says a study released Tuesday.

August 14, 2012
**FILE** A family stands next to a statue depicting a typical Chinese family with one child in Shanghai in 2008. (Associated Press)

U.N. urged to probe China’s 1-child policy

A coalition of human rights groups is calling on the United Nations to investigate China's family planning law to focus international attention on forced abortions, sterilization and other abuses reportedly used to impose Beijing's one-child policy.

August 9, 2012
**FILE** A map highlighting reported cases of gonorrhea in women aged 15 to 24 — high concentrations in pink and red — is seen Sept. 19, 2011, at a news conference in the Watts-Willowbrook area of Los Angeles to announce a Los Angeles County program to provide young women in South Los Angeles with home-testing kits for sexually transmitted diseases. Los Angeles County has the highest number of Chlamydia cases and the second-highest number of gonorrhea cases in the country. (Associated Press)

Antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea triggers alarm over ‘superbug’

The ever-mutating gonorrhea bacterium is becoming resistant to the dwindling number of medicines used to fight it, and public health authorities are raising alarms about the emergence of an untreatable "superbug" that will reverse decades of progress in lowering infection and transmission rates around the globe.

August 7, 2012
**FILE** Lawrence Stallworth II (left), 20, of Cleveland, who was diagnosed with HIV at age 17, speaks July 22, 2012, on a youth panel at the International AIDS Conference in Washington. Stallworth learned he was infected with HIV at age 17, when he was a high-school senior, after a hospitalization. A black gay man, he's among one of the nation's highest-risk groups. (Associated Press)

Clinton tells HIV activists to press on

Former President Bill Clinton closed out the 19th International AIDS Conference by urging activists to not lose heart, but press forward to bring an end to the deadly disease.

July 27, 2012
Joseph Kondrot helps to lay out a piece of the AIDS ¿Memorial Quilt on Sunday on the National Mall at the opening ceremonies of the Quilt in the Capital, marking the 25th anniversary of the quilt. It coincides with the 19th International AIDS Conference. (Ryan M.L. Young/The Washington Times)

AIDS conferees nonpartisan

With protesters in the audience chanting, ringing cowbells and waving red umbrellas, the AIDS 2012 session couldn't be called completely congenial.

July 25, 2012
Vincent Leclercq of France demonstrates in front of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 24, 2012, as the AIDS conference continues in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Obama hit for not showing at AIDS event

After two days of upbeat speeches about an end to AIDS, impatient activists took to the microphones and streets Tuesday to protest the sluggish pace of research, persistent barriers to care and funding, and President Obama's decision not to appear in person at the weeklong AIDS 2012 conference.

July 24, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the XIX International AIDS Conference, Monday, July 23, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. sets goals in AIDS battle

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged delegates to pursue a goal of "a generation that is free of AIDS," in rousing remarks before a major international conference on AIDS that formally opened in Washington Monday.

July 23, 2012
Joseph Kondrot helps to lay out a piece of the AIDS ¿Memorial Quilt on Sunday on the National Mall at the opening ceremonies of the Quilt in the Capital, marking the 25th anniversary of the quilt. It coincides with the 19th International AIDS Conference. (Ryan M.L. Young/The Washington Times)

Conference: ‘We can start to end AIDS’

The 19th International AIDS Conference opened Sunday night with an expression of gratitude for America's tremendous investments in the fight against the deadly disease — and a declaration that "we can start to end AIDS."

July 22, 2012
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

Fauci says ‘AIDS-free generation’ is possible

There is still "a long way to go" to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but scientifically, there's no reason the world can't move toward the day when HIV infections and deaths from AIDS are rare, a federal official said Sunday.

July 22, 2012

Optimism high for AIDS conference

The annual International AIDS Conference comes to Washington after 30 million deaths in about 30 years — but at a time that conference organizers see as a potential turning point in the fight against the deadly virus, thanks to a series of scientific breakthroughs.

July 19, 2012
**FILE** People visit the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington on July 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

AIDS risk higher for gay, bisexual black men

Black men who are gay or bisexual are "at the center" of the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic and should be a primary focus of testing, service and treatment efforts, a federal official and advocates said Wednesday.

July 18, 2012
Scouts and Scout leaders wave to the reviewing stand during the Boy Scout Association Grand Centennial Parade along Constitution Avenue in Washington on Sunday, July 25, 2010. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Peter Cihelka)

Boy Scouts will not allow gays to join

After a two-year internal debate, the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday unanimously reaffirmed its policy that does not "grant membership" to open or avowed homosexuals or persons who engage in behavior that would become "a distraction to the mission" of the century-old organization for boys, teens and men.

July 17, 2012

Gay-rights backers woo young Republicans

Gay-rights supporters are openly rallying sympathizers who until now may have been content to stay in the closet — young conservative Republicans.

July 10, 2012
** FILE ** Rep. Christopher H. Smith (Associated Press)

Gruesome picture puts new pressure on China over one-child policy

At a House hearing punctuated by the wails of a Chinese woman mourning a baby that was forcibly aborted 17 years ago, lawmakers said there were signs that increased domestic and international pressure on Chinese officials to end the country's one-child policy was beginning to have an effect.

July 9, 2012