Young people are disgusted, but they are not dejected...If policymakers won’t deliver on the abortion access we all deserve, young people will organize to do it themselves.

With a funding deadline looming, Advocates for Youth urgently calls on Congress to save HIV funding. House Republicans proposed massive cuts totalling $767 million to federal HIV/AIDS funding that sustains Ryan White Program, the Minority AIDS Initiative, and the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Initiative, which includes a proposed national PrEP program.

Advocates for Youth welcomes President Biden’s FY25 budget proposal, which demonstrates strong commitment to comprehensive sex education, reproductive healthcare and abortion access, HIV funding, and young people’s mental and behavioral wellbeing. 

Advocates for Youth is extremely disappointed to learn the court held that the Title X statute’s confidentiality protections do not preempt or supersede Texas’s parental consent law. We are however glad that the Fifth Circuit reversed the lower court’s order vacating a 2021 federal regulation that explicitly prohibits Title X providers from requiring parental consent and declined to rule as to whether the regulation preempts the Texas law. 

This court settlement is progress and an important win for teachers, students and advocates in Florida. We need to get rid of transphobic and homophobic laws in Florida and every state that has them on the books to ensure all young people see themselves represented in the classroom and in curriculum.

“This is a day of celebration for youth activists and the coalition of organizations who made over-the-counter birth control possible through their years of hard work and commitment.  Having an OTC option for birth control pills is incredibly important and long overdue."