The Supreme Court must protect young people’s access to books that reflect the diversity of the world around them. Attempts to censor LGBTQ+-inclusive materials under the guise of religious freedom are rooted in hate and blatant discrimination.
Decades of public health research demonstrates that preventative HIV care is critical to protecting LGBTQ+ people and vulnerable communities. By raising health care costs, the Supreme Court would put countless lives at risk and exacerbate existing and inequitable barriers to HIV treatment, prevention, and care that disproportionately impact young people of color.
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 advocating for HIV prevention, treatment, and care nationwide.
Title X providers, including many Planned Parenthood affiliates, play a critical role in ensuring young people and low-income communities have access to medical treatment and preventive care. Eliminating these services is cruel, dangerous, and will disproportionately impact young people of color who already face higher barriers to health care.
Campus protests are at the heart of movements for peace and justice, and young people must be able to organize for the causes they believe in without jeopardizing their physical safety or immigration status.
With this attack on federal HIV programs, the Trump Administration puts countless lives at risk and exacerbates existing and inequitable barriers to HIV treatment, prevention, and care.