Press Statements

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, as HIV programs face funding cuts and partisan attacks, Advocates for Youth honors National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD) and the young people advocat…

The Trump Administration has withdrawn funding from 16 Title X providers, threatening millions of people’s access to life-saving healthcare including cancer screenings, STI tests, contraception, and…

Over the last few weeks, the Trump administration has continued to target student immigrants, detaining and threatening students and scholars from Tufts, Alabama University, Columbia, Cornell, an…

The Trump Administration is expected to drastically cut and possibly eliminate HIV programs and funding at CDC, including in the Division of HIV Prevention (DHP). In response, Debra Hauser, …

This weekend, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested former Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, threatening to revoke his green card due to his participation in pro-Palestine student…

Today, the Department of Education announced mass layoffs impacting nearly half its workforce. In response, Diana Thu-Thao Rhodes, Vice President of Policy, Partnerships and Organizing at na…

Last week, Governor Kim Reynolds signed  the Civil Rights Removal Act (HSB242) into law, removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act and making Iowa the first state in…

Advocates for Youth announces awards totalling $510,000 USD that will support nine organizations to deliver AMAZE animated videos to their region and increase access to free sexual health information…

Dear friends of Advocates, Today, I am writing to inform you that Advocates for Youth has ended our nearly 40-year working relationship with the United States government. Last week the organizati…