Press Statements
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Guide for Healthcare Professionals Launches on National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day to Support Young People Living with HIV
Advocates for Youth has partnered with young people living with HIV, pediatric and adult care providers, and AIDS service organizations to design Medical Mentorship, a guide focused on supporting youn…
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Blood banks are running out of blood. So why can’t I donate?
As the COVID-19 crisis worsens and many are confined to their homes, blood bank supplies are running dangerously low. Organizations like the Red Cross have been forced to cancel thousands…
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Governors and Courts Are Classifying Abortion Care As Non-Essential. My Experience Says Otherwise.
I have told my abortion story many times, as a way to build community with other people who have had abortions and create empathy for the millions who need abortion…
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Abortion Care is Essential Care
The decision of Ohio’s attorney general to force clinics to stop offering abortion care is unnecessary, opportunistic, and incredibly callous. Governor DeWine’s administration is using this opport…
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Experts Release Updated National Sex Education Standards
Today the Future of Sex Education (FoSE) Initiative, a partnership of Advocates for Youth, Answer, and SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, released the second edition of The National Sex…
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Statement on Trump’s Expanded Travel Ban
This ban is another part of this President’s pattern of othering and ostracizing people of color both within and outside of our borders. For the last three years, we have…