Happy World Contraception Day! Part of the international Your Life campaign, World Contraception Day takes place every year on September 26. It was launched with the aim of helping young people around the world make safe and educated decisions about…
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“New name, same game: SHAME.” That’s just one of the rallying cries for the #SRAisAbstinenceOnly campaign, which is challenging funding and support for sexual risk avoidance (SRA) programs. SRA is a new name for an old concept: abstinence-only…
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Condoms. Perhaps the most well-known form of birth control and the only form of protection against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) besides dental dams, they are key when it comes to having safer sex. But for some teens, purchasing condoms isn’t…
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There’s a new, over-the-counter brand of emergency contraception (EC) from the makers of Vagisil®. It’s called Preventeza™ and Vagisil is donating it to family planning centers across the nation with the hopes of reaching people who may not…
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We all have our phones on us most of the day, and we all use at least five apps a day, so why not add a few great sexual health apps? Recently, Answer—the organization that publishes Sex, Etc.—published a report […]
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Happy 44th birthday, Roe v. Wade! It would be great to say that you’ve been able to ensure abortion access for everyone since January 22, 1973, but that just isn’t the case. Over the past 44 years, more than 1,000 […]
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Can health care providers and patients use texting to promote more consistent birth control use? Yes, they can! Clinicians and public health advocates have discovered something interesting: phone calls, email and snail mail just don’t seem to cut…
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