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Advocates Updates
- Press Release: Statement by James Wagoner on the release of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
- Youth of Color Initiative RFP due July 8
- Co-Sponsor the Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2010
- Parent-Child Communication: Promoting Sexually Healthy Youth
- Learn more about applying for new federal teen pregnancy prevention funds!
New Publications: 
- STDs are Normal (Psychology Today)
Reducing the stigma of STDs.
- Student: university wants to change her "biblical views" on gays (CNN)
A graduate student in Augusta State University's counseling program is suing the east Georgia school, alleging professors are requiring her to change her "biblical" views on homosexuality, or be expelled from the program. - The New Abortion Providers (NY Times)
The bold idea at the heart of this effort is to integrate abortion so that it’s a seamless part of health care for women — embraced rather than shunned. - SMCISD ditches abstinence-only sex ed (Austin News)
School board approves "Abstinence Plus"
- Rep. Mike Quigley: Healthy Gay Men Should Not Be Banned from Donating Blood (US News And World Report)
Our current policies turn away healthy, willing donors, even as we face serious blood shortages - Pregnant teens shun HIV treatment for fear of stigmatization (joyOnline)
In Ghana some young mothers are still unwilling – and afraid - to access antenatal health care under the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme. - Abortion foes win a round in health overhaul (AP)
Abortion foes have won a round in the first test of how President Barack Obama's health care law will be applied to the politically charged issue.
by Martha Kempner
In June, as teens across the country were trading in their backpacks and books for bathing suits and beach towels, two different divisions of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released surveys on teens’ sexual behavior. These surveys, which are conducted at regular intervals, provide a snapshot of what today’s teens are doing and a way of tracking trends over time.
The first of the studies, the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Summaries (YRBS) conducted by the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH), surveys high school students every two years. The results released last month were from the 2009 survey; it found that 46% of all high school students report ever having had sexual intercourse.
Youth Leadership and Accountability: Starting the Conversation!
by Mimi Melles, Program Manager, iYAN ProjectIt can often be hard to imagine a meeting where young people and leaders such as the Executive Director of the Global Fund, Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of UNICEF, Anthony Lake, and the South African government, Hendrietta Bogopane Zulu, Duputy Minister of Public Works, all in one room talking about youth leadership and accountability. Well, at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna—it’s not only possible, it happened!
