by Tosha | Aug 27, 2021 | News
Over the last 25-years, teen pregnancies have dropped overall, but nationally the rate is declining at a faster rate than in Oklahoma. This has kept Oklahoma near the top of the list. Oklahoma is ranked second in the nation — behind Arkansas and ahead of Mississippi,...
by Tosha | Aug 27, 2021 | News
It was a muggy afternoon, and Nakesha Martin raised her voice to be heard over the rattle of the air conditioner. “Is that a high-risk behavior, or a low-risk behavior?” she shouted to the class. “High-risk,” came a murmured response. Martin beamed. “That’s right,”...
by Tosha | Aug 27, 2021 | News
With flimsy justification, and in small type buried in routine documents, the Trump administration has informed 81 local governments and health groups that it will end grants they have received to run teen pregnancy prevention programs, two years before the grants are...
by Tosha | Aug 27, 2021 | News
OKLAHOMA CITY — For months, health officials in this socially conservative state capital have been staggered by a fast-spreading outbreak of a disease that, for nearly two decades, was considered all but extinguished. Syphilis, the deadly sexually transmitted...
by Tosha | Aug 27, 2021 | News
Teen pregnancy prevention takes center stage with federal funding woes met head on by leadership in the education and medical communities. Read the full article from ArtDesk here.
by Tosha | Aug 27, 2021 | News
In the months since the New York Times first broke the story about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged decades-long pattern of sexually harassing women, an avalanche of accusations against other powerful men — Al Franken, Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey among them — have come to...
