Sexual and Reproductive Health

Texans Don't Actually Loathe Birth Control Access, Sex Education

It seems that the sweeping cuts that gutted family planning services for low-income Texans in 2011 aren't quite as popular as a clamorous minority would have led us to believe. Based on new poll results from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, the majority of Texans -- across party, gender, and racia ... More >>

The Texas Lege To Tackle Sex Education Again: Grab Some Popcorn And Get A Good Seat

A Texas legislative session with a slew of freshman representatives brushed with the fervor of the Tea Party movement must surely be like red meat on a platter for groups like the Texas Freedom Network. The Texas Freedom Network has emerged as one of the most vocal opponents of the State Board of E ... More >>

Welcome to Your Dad's STDs: Syphilis on the Rise In Houston

Hey soldier!! Wrap that rascal!! Loose lips sink ships!! Careless talk costs lives!!! Loose women may also be LOADED with disease!! The WWII vibe is heavy these days in Houston, as health officials have announced a comeback of the Greatest Generation's STD, syphilis. The Houston Department of Heal ... More >>

David France on the Plague Years

The history and survival of ACT UP.

That New HIV Drug is Great (if You Can Afford it)

The Food and Drug Administration's approval Monday of a pill shown to reduce the risk of contracting HIV is a "game-changer," according to AIDS Foundation Houston's director of prevention services. The pill, Truvada, was shown to "cut the risk of infection in healthy gay and bisexual men by 42 perc ... More >>

Michael "5000" Watts and Trillstep

The Swishahouse don has a new creation.

STD App: Does Your Date Have More Claps Than the Coliseum? There's an App for That.

So there you are on your first date, and everything's going wonderfully: you have a cozy, romantic corner booth at the Golden Corral, and she looks positively beautiful. You think you'll both be spending the night together. After you settle the bill and walk toward the car, you find yourself in that ... More >>

CVS: No Birth Control

Won't sell morning-after pill

CVS: No Birth Control

Won't sell morning-after pill to man.

CVS Refused To Sell Man A Morning-After Pregnancy Pill

No Plan B for you, dude​If you keep a Plan B morning-after pill around for emergencies, sometimes it's going to get used, which means you're going to have to go get a new one, right? And if you're a chivalrous dude, you'll offer to do the chore yourself. That's what Isaac Kurtz set out to do ... More >>

World AIDS Day: Artists Who Have Contributed to the Cause

​Today is World AIDS Day. The theme this year is "Getting to Zero," focusing on zero AIDS related deaths. In hopes of achieving this goal, there has been many a celebrity to endorse AIDS awareness and various charities around the world. Quite a few musicians have used their celebrity status ... More >>

10 Texas Answers to a High School Sex-Ed Test

Standardized sex tests for Texas?​Public schools in Washington D.C. are going to start administering a new standardized test to elementary, middle school and high school students. And this one's all about sex. It's the first of its kind in the U.S., but it probably won't be the last. Should s ... More >>

Free Birth Control: 5 Places To Spend Those Savings Outside Of Your Womb

Birth control pills, for the low, low price of nothing.​For hating on your babymaker so hard, the government sure is spending a lot of time down there. Just ask Planned Parenthood: there's a lot of womb-shaming here in Texas. But finally, finally, a governmental body may start meddling on beha ... More >>

Free HIV Testing at Walgreens: Five Reasons To Get Tested

Drop and give us twenty...minutes to test you​Walgreens is all kinds of sexy lately. In March, it became the first pharmacy to carry the female condom, a plastic pouch that gives females the power of putting up their own STI-barrier. Now for the first time ever, Walgreens is offering free HIV ... More >>

Join Team Chile, Help Fight AIDS

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email introducingliston@gmail.com ... More >>

Day Of The [Digital] Dead

No! Not...that guy!​Yesterday was the 23rd annual World AIDS Day, dedicated to raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and remembering those who have succumbed to the disease. It's a sobering occasion. Over 25 million have died of the disease since 1981, and some 33 million live with the infection n ... More >>

Katrina Graffiti

Richard Misrach's photographs document the ordeal.

Readers Respond, and the Mexican Middle Class

The Illuminations Project

Local musicians and dancers support HIV/AIDS education

Project Runway Star Talks Houston, AIDS & Stigma

Photo courtesy Living Positive by DesignFormer Project Runway contestant Jack Mackenroth's been to Houston before, although he doesn't remember us. "I know I've been to Dallas, Austin and Houston, but in my brain, I can't remember which is which. So I look around while we're driving and I think, 'Th ... More >>

Have Houston Doctors Cracked the AIDS Virus?

There's a Morning-After Drug to Prevent HIV Infection

The treatment is called post-exposure prophylaxis. So why do so few medical groups in Houston know about it?

Strapped-a-Lot

Local mogul J. Prince wants Houston to cover up

“Face the Music: An Evening of Jazz Dedicated to Fighting AIDS in Africa”

Music for a good cause

Oh, Baby Baby

There's a lot of money to be made in adoptions. Jennalee Ryan moved to Texas to continue doing that.

Good News for AFH

No, Thanks. We'll Take Cancer.

Penal Violations

Texas prisons say they can’t allow condoms because they don’t allow sex. So they don’t need condoms. They just need $12 million a year to treat all the HIV-positive prisoners.

One from the Heart

Letters to the Editor

Brotherly Love

Author J.L. King exposes men On the Down Low

Achtung, Baby

The 1936 Olympics in Berlin revealed the tip of the Nazi iceberg

Getting THMPed

Activists fight the state's plan to slash drug help for HIV patients

Getting Ugly

No increase in federal funding for the HIV-positive indigent puts Texas patients in a real bind

Med Check

Texas can't decide whether to pay for drug-resistance tests that could prolong the lives of those with HIV. For John Termine, it's already too late.

Needling the Mayor

Former drug czar Lee Brown has trouble negotiating a question about why there's no needle-exchange program for addicts in Houston

Niche Kitsch

The Aurora Picture Show takes another look at those high school health films

Best Nonprofit

Montrose Clinic

Throwing In the Towel

Linen companies refuse wellness center's dirty laundry

Positive Love

Love proves stronger than fear in these couples where one partner tests positive for HIV, the other negative for the dread disease.

Clinic at Death's Door

With a local Democratic Party official at the helm, an AIDS agency nears collapse

Downing

Brentwood's protests have given way to a calmer acceptance of AIDS patients living there

Houston Press Story Prompts Indictments

Immune to Reason

Hundreds of thousands of Texas children, including 250,000 newborn babies, are routinely vaccinated against hepatits B each year. Why? Good question.

What a deal!

Joe Fuentes has no staff, no office, no documentation of the people he says he's helped, but hey, he's a good guy. Let's give him half a million dollars-plus.

Unembraceable You

When it comes to AIDS funding, process takes precedence over children in Harris County

Letters

In Denial

As HIV spreads among blacks and Hispanics, agencies that serve those communities say they're being shortchanged

The Insider

See No Evil, Teach No Evil

A Fort Bend County school district decrees that sex ed should start with abstinence and end with fidelity