Texas Health Action expands access to Intersex health care
Kind Clinic locations in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio now offer Intersex sexual health care services AUSTIN, TX— Kind Clinic, a program of Texas Health Action, now offers Intersex-specific sexual health care at no cost to patients at its Austin, Dallas and San Antonio locations. This program is designed to provide adult patients who have […]
Kind Clinic’s Central Texas Community Health Report finds need for stigma-free healthcare
Demand for STI testing outpaces public health capacity FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 11, 2023 Media Contacts: ECPR Texas Kelsey Stevens or Anita Garza kstevens@echristianpr.com or agarza@ecprtexas.com (512) 694-7003 or (361) 655-4683 AUSTIN, TX— Texas Health Action’s Kind Clinic provided more than 11,000 patient visits for walk-in STI/HIV testing in a judgment-free, culturally affirming environment last […]
Texas Health Action on Senate Bill 14 Becoming Law
The 88th Texas Legislature has been a dysfunctional mess, and children have been used as pawns for political gain, something we find reprehensible. Additionally, the testimony of hundreds of Texans has been blocked in favor of listening to out-of-state special interest groups who spread disinformation from state to state about the LGBTQIA+ community as a grift. […]
Updates on the Texas Legislature
We’re doing our part as Texas Health Action to protect the rights of trans people to access healthcare in Texas and expand HIV prevention and treatment services across the state. We are continuing to testify and meet with legislators to share our perspective as experts in providing healthcare to LGBTQIA+ Texans and people impacted by HIV. […]
Texas Health Action Names Chief Advancement Officer
AUSTIN, Texas—Texas Health Action, a community-informed nonprofit with an expertise in serving LGBTQIA+ people and people impacted by HIV, recently named Juan Benitez as its chief advancement officer. In this role, Benitez will oversee communications and marketing, as well as development and fundraising for the organization and its programs across the state. This newly created role […]
Access to PrEP is Access to Freedom…
For several decades, a lack of comprehensive sexual education has harmed the health and safety of people across all sexual identities. At the dawn of discovering our sexualities, we are taught to suppress and stigmatize them, rather than becoming educated about our bodies, healthy relationships, and how to maintain positive health outcomes. From the void […]
A Senseless Act of Hate and Violence Towards Our Community
The mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs was a senseless act of hate and violence toward our LGBTQIA+ community converging with the epidemic of gun violence in our country. Beautiful lives were tragically cut short, and our hearts are with the friends and families of those gone too soon. To our patients, employees, […]
Texas Health Action to ‘Rock the Ribbon’ to offer free HIV testing on World Aids Day
Kind Clinic to offer free walk-in testing in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio AUSTIN, Texas—Texas Health Action—a community-informed nonprofit that provides access to quality health services in a safe and supportive environment—will provide free HIV testing beginning on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2022, at Kind Clinic locations in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio. Texas […]
Celebrating 10 Years of PrEP – Reflections from Our Community
This year’s 10th anniversary of PrEP is a landmark moment in the movement to reach zero new HIV transmissions and the tools available to us to get there.
Monkeypox – Facts not Fear
Texas Health Action is working with local health officials to closely monitor the Monkeypox outbreak. Monkeypox is spreading mostly from skin-to-skin contact during sex, mostly among men who have sex with men. You may develop flu-like symptoms, such as fevers and chills, body aches or fatigue, before or after the development of a rash. The […]
