We are so excited to announce that Celinda Lake, one of the nation’s foremost experts on electing women candidates and on framing issues to women, and a renowned researcher and pollster, will speak about the impact of poverty on reproductive healthcare plays and the policies that determine access to it at An Evening with Celinda […]
On December 6, 2016, Arizona Family Health Partnership (AFHP) held the final Delegates’ meeting of the year, opening up the attendance to people outside the delegate network tome and offered Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for the medical providers that attended. Five guest speakers presented about a variety of reproductive health topics such as: transgender health […]
Happy New Year! And with this new year, we know you’re thinking about a “new you”. New year’s resolutions mean different things to different people, but usually a little over half of Americans make them every year. If you were curious, these were 10 of the most common resolutions made last year: Lose weight Get […]
Did you know that besides from being bitten by a mosquito, you can get Zika by having unprotected sex with someone who already has the virus? Did you also know that women who are already pregnant can be the most adversely affected by Zika? To help combat the spread, Arizona Family Health Partnership (AFHP) applied […]
…that we received a new grant to fund the prevention of the sexual transmission of Zika here in Arizona! We are using a one-time $248,626 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant for Zika prevention and protection training as well as counseling and education primarily targeting women of reproductive age who are not […]
The Obama administration published a notice of proposed rulemaking that is designed to clarify and strengthen longstanding patient protections for the more than 4 million women and men who seek care through the Title X family planning program. These new protections would ensure that states cannot withhold Title X federal family planning money from certain recipients for […]
June 7 marks the 51th anniversary of the landmark 1965 Supreme Court ruling affirming the right of married couples to use contraception and recognizing an individual’s right to privacy in family planning matters. The case was fought over a Connecticut law that made the use of birth control and encouraging someone to use birth control […]
In the past two months since our last post, the field of research and public health attention surrounding the Zika virus has expanded dramatically. In February, the correlation between Zika virus and the birth defect microcephaly was only being postulated. In March, the New England Journal of medicine published a study which included 42 pregnant […]
We are excited to announce the launch of SEXfyi.org®! SEXfyi.org® was created to let the teens and young adults of Arizona know about the confidential, low or no-cost reproductive health services available to them through the Title X program! The campaign was designed with the input of actual clients and is comprised of three parts. The […]
Zika virus According to the WHO, the Zika virus was first identified in 1952 in humans and was found to be transmitted through mosquito bites. The symptoms of the virus include fever, skin rashes, joint pain, and headaches which last from 2-7 days. Microcephaly In 2015, Brazil began to experience a large outbreak in this […]
