Sexual and Reproductive Health

No Dallas, But, Maybe, Dallas Buyer's Club

P.P.T. Crew Video and Skinny on S.P.E.A.K. Project

Tony Romo and His Pops Are Out to Tackle Prostate Cancer

The Rap Up: Nothing To Lose (But Ignorance) At Hip Hop for HIV

Thirteen Years Later, Dallas County May Finally Get Back its Condom Sense

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

Hot Dish

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

Epidemic of hope

A new family of drugs may offer AIDS patients a new lease on life

Stormy seas

The Yellow Boat sails a sweet, troubled journey

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Unacceptable Risk

Texas health officials say that mandatory childhood vaccinations against hepatitis B will prevent the spread of life-threatening illness. But which is riskier--the disease or the vaccine?

Sex "Education" Has Failed Texas Students, Says Texas State University Study

Abstinence-only sex education doesn't work. You know it. Bristol Palin knows it. Shoot, anyone who has ever been or met a teenager knows that telling them to "just say no" is the best and possibly only way to get them to says yes, yes, YES!Still, it's nice that the folks at the Texas Freedom Network ... More >>

Buzz: Sex Ed in Texas Gets an "F"

Abstinence-only sex education doesn't work. You know it. Bristol Palin knows it. Shoot, anyone who has ever been or met a teenager knows that telling them to "just say no" is the best and possibly only way to get them to says yes, yes, YES!Still, it's nice that the folks at the Texas Freedom Network ... More >>

Don't Blow It|Cookie Monsters|Our Bad|Risky Business

Abstinence-only sex education doesn't work. You know it. Bristol Palin knows it. Shoot, anyone who has ever been or met a teenager knows that telling them to "just say no" is the best and possibly only way to get them to says yes, yes, YES!Still, it's nice that the folks at the Texas Freedom Network ... More >>

HIV Numbers Cloud Condom Sense

Abstinence-only sex education doesn't work. You know it. Bristol Palin knows it. Shoot, anyone who has ever been or met a teenager knows that telling them to "just say no" is the best and possibly only way to get them to says yes, yes, YES!Still, it's nice that the folks at the Texas Freedom Network ... More >>

Jogging Awareness

Run a 5K to spite AIDS

Teaching Teens How to Parent and Stop Having Children

Battling the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation, Texas counselors have their work cut out

Puscifer

"V" Is for Vagina (Puscifer Entertainment)

Closet Case

With The Normal Heart, Uptown Players find gentle new beats in angry drama

Blue, New and Borrowed

With The Normal Heart, Uptown Players find gentle new beats in angry drama

Stage Epidemic

With The Normal Heart, Uptown Players find gentle new beats in angry drama

Casual Saturday

Let your neck breathe for charity

This is a Test

Let your neck breathe for charity

Out of Focus

A shift in AIDS funding from services to drugs threatens poor patients

Mighty and Young No More

Plus: Time To Talk; Only Rock and Roll

Dear Santa

A certain state representative needs some coal in his stocking

The Missing People's Agenda

Plus: The Turkey Test; New Sheriff in Town

Reach Out

AIDS Outreach Center has family fun and a family fund-raiser

Wine 'n' Dine

Toast the Resource Center

Cocktail Hours

The latest AIDS medications give life to the dying--but what kind of life?

Vanity Plates

The perfect gift for the pet that has--ahem--almost everything

Get a Life

Fight AIDS one step at a time

Consider the Source

Planned Parenthood refuses to give up the dole without a fight

Déjà Vu

Advocates say University Park paramedics shunned a man with AIDS--at an AIDS awareness rally

In a Silent Way

The paintings of John Wilcox create a tension disguised as minimalism

Living La Vida SIDA

After his younger brother died of AIDS, Joseluis Partida dedicated his life to warning people about the disease. But the politics of being gay and Hispanic made it tougher than he ever imagined.

Good eggs

For some infertile Dallas couples, science, commerce, and a few genetically attractive women provide the next best thing to Mother Nature

No idle threat

For some infertile Dallas couples, science, commerce, and a few genetically attractive women provide the next best thing to Mother Nature

On the lam

A convicted killer flees arrest on insurance fraud charges

Think America Coddles Mexicans? How About The Way The Entire World Coddles Americans?

A convicted killer flees arrest on insurance fraud charges

Speak Out, Loud And Proud

A convicted killer flees arrest on insurance fraud charges

Running Scared

A convicted killer flees arrest on insurance fraud charges

Proof Positive

A convicted killer flees arrest on insurance fraud charges

Rent's Due

A convicted killer flees arrest on insurance fraud charges

Deuell Language: Planned Parenthood Says Politics Messing With Women's Health Care

Bob Deuell​The state Senate Committee on Health and Human Services voted yesterday in favor of a bill that would renew the Women's Health Program, a Medicaid-funded program that provides basic women's health care. It was set to expire this year unless the Lege took action, but now that it has the ... More >>

The End of Family Planning in Texas

They say they defunded Planned Parenthood. But lawmakers' attack on family planning will cost Texas money, reduce access to healthcare and result in even more abortions.

The Rising AIDS Epidemic Among Dallas's Young Poor People

Barbara Rios/Science Photo Library​The number of young people in Dallas contracting HIV and AIDS is increasing, KTVT-Channel 11 reported Monday, and those young people, ages 13 to 24, now make up 25 percent of all new diagnoses. And those stats were compiled before the state decided to gut fam ... More >>

Survey Says Texas Schools Are Now a Little Less Awful at Teaching Students Sex Education

Texas Freedom Network​Just three years ago, 94 percent of the state's school districts told their kiddos: Just say no to sex. And that was that when it came to sex ed -- abstinence only and nothing but, which was working out real well considering that Texas's teen-pregnancy rate was the third-high ... More >>

Reflecting on 30 Years of AIDS

Texas Freedom Network​Just three years ago, 94 percent of the state's school districts told their kiddos: Just say no to sex. And that was that when it came to sex ed -- abstinence only and nothing but, which was working out real well considering that Texas's teen-pregnancy rate was the third-high ... More >>

One Man's (Somewhat Frantic and Almost Failed) Hunt for Emergency Contraceptive

Oh, Canada.​One night late last year, Jason Melbourne walked into a CVS pharmacy in Mesquite, hoping against hope to walk out with an emergency contraceptive, or "the morning-after pill." It wasn't the morning after. He and his wife had their "accident" a few days before, and the 72-hour windo ... More >>

As Brinker Tries to Explain Komen's Split From Planned Parenthood, an Inside Account

As you know by now, locally based Susan G. Komen for the Cure has cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood, meaning it'll no longer help pay for mammograms for women who can't afford them; why, there's Nancy Brinker herself above, attempting to explain Komen's "new granting strategies" concerning i ... More >>