A new ad campaign that aims to highlight teen pregnancy prevention in New York City is generating headlines this week -- but the important story is the innovative approaches the city has brought to this work over the last several years, which helped cut teen pregnancy by 27 percent in...

October is Let's Talk Month, an annual effort to encourage parents to talk with their children and adolescents about sexuality-related topics.

While it can be scary to think about our teens having sex, the reality is most teens will before graduating from high school. In New York City about

We never cease to be amazed at those who would oppose providing our young people with the accurate information and resources they need to lead safe and healthy lives. In New York City, teens make up more than one in four diagnosed STI cases, and the vast majority...

Testing yourself for HIV will soon be as simple as checking yourself for pregnancy. That's because the Food and Drug Administration has approved a device called "OraQuick" for sale over the counter. Unlike today's home HIV tests -- which require the user to collect a tiny blood sample and send...

This week is National Sex Ed Week, and for the first time in 20 years, we're celebrating it knowing New York City will now require sex education to be taught in schools.

This news is exciting. For too long, too many of our teens have gone without...

New York Post columnist John Wilson recently marked the 40th anniversary of safe, legal abortion in New York State with a bit of a rant.

As you would expect from the New York Post, Mr. Wilson launched into the tired rhetoric of high rates of abortion, the...

The word "test" makes most people cringe. Images of grammar school, pop quizzes, and the SATs come to mind.

Yet I've spent this month talking about a different sort of test - one that could help protect your health, and even save your life.

April was STD awareness...

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Sex -- when the topic comes up in conversation, it inspires giggles. When that conversation is with a partner, those giggles can turn into stomach knots.

Yet open conversations about sex are some of the most important aspects of a relationship. With...

In the thirty-seven years since Roe V. Wade was decided, we have seen women's access to abortion slowly eroded. There have been legal restrictions, mandatory waiting periods, prohibitions on federal funding, clinic closings, murders of providers, bomb threats, campaigns to stigmatize the procedure, and attempts to ban the procedure completely....

Today, President Barack Obama rescinded the "global gag rule," effectively releasing a stranglehold on women's health around the world.

For the past eight years, this relic of the Bush administration has prevented countless women from receiving the full range of reproductive services they need to protect their health and strengthen...

Recently, Planned Parenthood of New York City released a study entitled "Un Pie En Dos Islas," which delved into the reproductive health of Dominican women in both Santo Domingo and New York City. Among other things, the qualitative study revealed a deep seeded mistrust of the health care...

Smack in the middle of the Holiday Season, outgoing President George W. Bush has given us a present worse than coal.

The Department of Health and Human Services issued a rule today that allows health care workers to deny patients vital care, information and services without the patient even knowing.