Useful Links
General Women’s Health Information:
- American Cancer Society
- American Diabetes Association
- American Heart Association
- Families USA: The Voice for Health Care Consumers
- STD Prevention Online
- The Positive Project: A collection of powerful and valuable first-person accounts from an unrecognized and underutilized resource in the overall response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
- Think HIV: MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation have come together to create think HIV, a vibrant platform that serves to educate about, spark discussion on and lead to action around the impact HIV/AIDS has had on young people.
- Susan G. Komen’s for the Cure: provides information about breast cancer.
General Women’s Reproductive Health Information:
- BreastFeeding.com: provides a whole host of videos on breastfeeding.
- College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: provides free reproductive health care pamphlets.
- Johns Hopkins University Student Health & Wellness Center: Women’s Health Tutorial.
- Kicesie’s Sex Ed: Supporting Healthy, Passionate Lives provides “talk to you” clips on YouTube about a whole host of topics including What to expect from your gyno?, How did you learn about sex?, and Plan B.
- National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association: assures access to voluntary, comprehensive family planning and reproductive health care services worldwide.
- National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
- Texas Department of State Health Services Family Planning
Statistical Information:
- Alan Guttmacher Institute
- Center for Disease Control
- Education, Training, Research Associates Center for Sexual & Reproductive Health Promotion: bridges research, practice and policy through its programs.
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
- Campaign For Our Children, Inc: develops research-based prevention messages and educational campaigns that encourage healthy, responsible decision making among adolescents and raises public awareness about adolescent preventive health issues.
- Center for Young Women’s Health (hosted by Children’s Hospital Boston): provides health information for teen girls around the world.
- Healthy Futures of Texas: preventing teen and unplanned pregnancy.
- Healthy Teen Network: making a difference in the lives of teen and young families.
- National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy: seeks to improve the well-being of children, youth, families, and the nation by preventing unplanned and teen pregnancy.
- Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: provides practical tools and information to effectively reduce sexual risk-taking behaviors (especially for teachers and health educators).
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS): promotes sexuality education for people of all ages, protects sexual rights, and expands access to sexual health services.
- National Pediatric AIDS Network: a resource for information on HIV/AIDS from preconception through adolescents.