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Sexual and Reproductive Health

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    AIDS Healthcare Foundation Worried As FDA Inches Closer to Approving Drug That Might Prevent HIV Transmission

    Last week, a committee of experts recommended that the Food and Drug Administration approve the first drug for protecting against HIV transmission.On the surface, it sounds like great news. But as The Pulp reported in January, some doctors have serious concerns that the pill is not as effe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Forbes' Gardasil Story Sheds Light on Why Florida's Well-Meaning HPV Legislation Failed

    Florida lawmakers tackled lots of pressing issues this past legislative sessions. They debated whether the barking tree frog should be the Sunshine State's official amphibian. They clashed over making it a crime to pick up pecans that have fallen from privately owned trees. The e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Florida Anti-Vaccine Group Ignores Facts, Says It's Not Anti-Vaccine

    ​The Health Regulation Committee on Wednesday voted seven to zip in favor of SB 1116, a proposal to give parents of sixth-graders information on the human papillomavirus vaccine, which helps protect females from cervical cancer. As discussed yesterday, the original version of the bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Florida HPV Vaccine Bill Gets Watered Down Before Going to Committee; Anti-Vaccine Group Still Not Pleased

    ​Rick Perry tried making it mandatory. Michele Bachmann insinuated that it causes mental retardation. One of the world's top bioethicists bet Bachmann $10,000 to prove this claim. The human papillomavirus vaccine -- which helps protect women from certain strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer - ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Circumcision and AIDS: Harvard Doctors Respond to Criticism

    ​Could a whole coalition of highly accomplished, super educated doctors and researchers -- the ones who work at and advise the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Public Health -- all be wrong? Or are their critics hinderin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Allen West on Contraception: Mocks Obama's Knowledge of the Constitution, Completely Mangles Constitutional Argument

    ​Congressman Allen West sent out his weekly newsletter Monday, barraging his constituents with an almost predictable combination of hyperpatriotic mumbo-jumbo and misguided, pseudo-academic posturing about his favorite book in the history of words, the United States Constitution.Once you get past ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Florida AIDS Medicine Waiting List Longest in America

    Flickr user: Sully Pixel​More than 3,600 Floridians are on a government waiting list for AIDS medicine -- the longest list in the country, according to the national nonprofit the AIDS Institute. Of the needy patients, 886 live in Palm Beach and Broward counties.The medicine, which keeps patients h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    BSO Releases New Report That Says Daniel Hay Lewis Claimed to Have AIDS

    BSODaniel Hay Lewis​The Broward Sheriff's Office has now released a new "detailed" report on the arrest of Daniel Hay Lewis, claiming that Lewis stated he had AIDS several times before attempting to bite a deputy.Lewis, a Hallandale Beach resident, was arrested May 30 while allegedly trying to ste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Daniel Hay Lewis' Bond Reduced as State Starts to Backpedal on HIV-Transmission Charge

    BSODaniel Hay Lewis​Apparently it's getting tough for the state to continue prosecuting someone for criminal transmission of HIV when its suspect isn't HIV-positive.Daniel Hay Lewis -- accused by police of attempting to bite a cop in the process of trying to steal $12,000 worth of garden products ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2011

    Daniel Hay Lewis -- Charged With Transmission of HIV -- Doesn't Even Have HIV, Attorney Says

    BSODaniel Hay Lewis​Daniel Hay Lewis,a Hallandale Beach resident charged with criminal transmission of HIV after allegedly trying to bite a police officer while being arrested for shoplifting, doesn't actually have HIV, according to his public defender.After allegedly trying to steal $12,000 worth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Elton John Complains to Gov. Rick Scott About HIV/AIDS Funding

    broadwaymusicalhome.comElton John: Rocket Man and advocate of Florida's HIV/AIDS program.​Just about everyone has had something to complain about with Gov. Rick Scott lately, and you can add Sir Elton John to that list.On behalf of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, John wrote a letter to the governo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Reader Rails Against "Virtual Black Baby Genocide"

    West is offended by Planned Parenthood clinics in black neighborhoods.​The federal budget deal congressional leaders inked late Friday avoided funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, but a future Senate floor vote on the issue still looms. The Juice has given you U.S. Rep. Allen West's views on the or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Planned Parenthood Responds to Allen West

    West doesn't want the clinics in black neighborhoods.​At a town hall meeting this week, U.S. Rep. Allen West said he found it "offensive" that many Planned Parenthood programs are located in black neighborhoods.Judith Selzer, vice president of public policy for South Florida's chapter of Planned P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Allen West "Offended" by Planned Parenthood in Black Neighborhoods

    Allen West doesn't want women to get prenatal vitamins, either.​U.S. Rep. Allen West managed to sound relatively sane for the first hour of his town hall meeting in Palm Beach last night. He used lots of pie charts and graphs to outline bedrock GOP talking points about slashing spending and cuttin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Calvin Williams Murder: Why is AIDS Rate so High for Black Men?

    Calvin Williams was allegedly killed by his lover.​This spring's murder of L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams brought to light a harsh truth about AIDS among African-American men. For many in South Florida, sex on the down-low is a deadly gamble.According to Riviera Beach police repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Rape Victim Sees Doctor, Loses Health Insurance

    flickr.comRape? Sounds like a pre-existing condition to insurance companies.​Christina Turner, a 45-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman, was downtown, letting men at the bar by her drinks. The next thing she remembers is waking up on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she may have been rap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Sex Ed Group Targets Florida in War Against Abstinence-Only Education

    That's a video from this past April, which gives you some context for the briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill by SIECUS -- the organization that promotes sex education and attacks the abstinence-only curricula that gained momentum during the Bush years.Obama's election brought a halt to that momentu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Planned Parenthood Opens Two New Clinics in Broward to Meet Growing Demand

    Photo by Judith Selzer Planned Parenthood CEO Lillian Tamayo makes it official in Pembroke Pines​Douglas Marshall, director of business development for Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, has no shortage of distressing accounts of patients he has helped. After the ri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 25, 2009

    The Dub Club

    Photo by Judith Selzer Planned Parenthood CEO Lillian Tamayo makes it official in Pembroke Pines​Douglas Marshall, director of business development for Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, has no shortage of distressing accounts of patients he has helped. After the ri ... More >>

  • News

    October 16, 2008

    Abstinence education grant renewed for Palm Beach schools

    Photo by Judith Selzer Planned Parenthood CEO Lillian Tamayo makes it official in Pembroke Pines​Douglas Marshall, director of business development for Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, has no shortage of distressing accounts of patients he has helped. After the ri ... More >>

  • News

    February 14, 2008

    Letters for February 14-20, 2008

    Photo by Judith Selzer Planned Parenthood CEO Lillian Tamayo makes it official in Pembroke Pines​Douglas Marshall, director of business development for Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, has no shortage of distressing accounts of patients he has helped. After the ri ... More >>

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    Simmer Down, Kids!

    Sex-ed teachers want to know: How do you get hormones to listen to reason?

  • News

    December 7, 2006

    Sex and the Single Sperm

    FAU's wild Darwinians are at it again. And this time, they want to measure your nutsack.

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    Well Hung

    To bead or not to bead, that is the question.

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    The Protection Racket

    And the band plays on

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2006

    Free Condoms and Lube!

    And the band plays on

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2005

    WHEEL L_VE

    And the band plays on

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    Letters for November 3-9, 2005

    And the band plays on

  • Culture

    October 20, 2005

    Agitation Nation

    Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart brings back a time of acting up

  • Calendar

    October 13, 2005

    Born to Choose

    Planned Parenthood benefit rocks Respectable Street

  • Nightlife

    May 12, 2005

    Best Place for a Second Date

    Sunrise Health Center

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Unsafe Sex

    Our intrepid reporter probes the gay orgies that have helped to spark a runaway syphilis outbreak

  • News

    March 28, 2002

    Acting Out

    Whether or not the state helps out AIDS sufferers, last week's botched protest says much about the HIV community's problem

  • News

    January 10, 2002

    Drug Holiday

    Once a leading gay activist, CenterOne cofounder Gary Steinsmith has fallen on hard times

  • News

    December 13, 2001

    Their Own Osamas

    Abortion clinics and counseling centers faced terrorism long before everyone else

  • Calendar

    May 31, 2001

    Envy Much?

    The Penis' Responses to the Vagina Monologues

  • Best of BPB

    May 17, 2001

    Best Political Activist

    Vivian Burch

  • Calendar

    November 16, 2000

    Culture For a Cause

    "The One Million Dollar Art Show"

  • News

    May 25, 2000

    My Life as a Eunuch

    What's a man to do if he doesn't want his balls hanging around? Simple: Just find someone to cut them off.

  • News

    January 6, 2000

    Miracle Baby

    Seven years ago Bill Wetzel got testicular cancer and became sterile. Luckily he had already made a deposit at the sperm bank.

  • News

    June 17, 1999

    Letters

    Seven years ago Bill Wetzel got testicular cancer and became sterile. Luckily he had already made a deposit at the sperm bank.

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    Letters

    Seven years ago Bill Wetzel got testicular cancer and became sterile. Luckily he had already made a deposit at the sperm bank.

  • News

    May 27, 1999

    Sexual Roulette

    Despite the risk, HIV-positive gay men are engaging in unsafe sex in the wake of improved AIDS medications. Don't believe us? Check out South Florida's "backroom bars."

  • News

    February 4, 1999

    Nova, HEAL Thyself

    Members of a student group insist bad behavior, not HIV, causes AIDS, and that controversial message is testing academic freedom

  • News

    January 28, 1999

    Color Blinded

    A federal grant earmarked for "African-Americans" with AIDS has care providers in Broward debating linguistics rather than logistics.

  • News

    December 17, 1998

    An Epidemic of Apathy

    Local activists were hoping people would flock to see the AIDS Memorial Quilt. They didn't.

  • News

    September 24, 1998

    The Dentist Is Out

    The closure of a publicly funded children's dental clinic has low-income patients down in the mouth

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    Enough to Make You Sick

    The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    Letters

    The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

  • Calendar

    February 5, 1998

    The Single-Minded Professor

    The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

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