The FDA has approved a daily pill called Pre-Exposure Prophalaxis, or PrEP, which can reduce the risk of HIV infection by 86%. It’s the first and only treatment of its kind, but the Centers for Disease Control recommends caution when prescribing PrEP to adolescents. They’re waiting for final results from medical trials on young people being conducted in cities across the country.
How does gun violence affect you and your community? How can young people help to reduce the threat of gun violence? How should we educate kids about the possibility of gun violence without causing them to live in fear?
I remember when my mom taught me my ABC’s and how to make spaghetti– but now that everyone is addicted…
Young people increasingly see gender as not just limited to male and female. But the torchbearers of gender fluidity aren’t just celebrities or politicians, but kids. But schools are still catching up with the needs of gender nonconforming students.
I hear my heart beating as if I have earphones plugged into my pulse. My body tenses up, and you’d…
The world of Maya Escobar has been shaped by something commonplace to families like hers in Oakland — gunshots. In this animated video, Maya explores a traumatic event in her childhood and the fear that remains.
The summer before I began middle school, my family moved from Antioch, a diverse town with a reputation for high…
Leelah Alcorn is the high school student/artist in Ohio who committed suicide in December and was transgender. When I heard…
Hundreds of high school students, parents, and policy makers gathered together at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters this week to trade…
