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 […]
New Chief Medical Officer Named for THA’s Kind Clinic
Texas Health Action recently named Dr. Sandra Guerra as its chief medical officer (CMO). In this role, Guerra is responsible for clinical leadership, quality processes and medical education efforts that advance THA’s mission of providing access to culturally affirming, quality health services in a safe and supportive environment. She assumed her new role on […]
Kind Clinic to offer dedicated space for walk-in HIV/STI testing
Free testing without an appointment at Koenig Lane Kind Clinic recently expanded their 101 W. Koenig Ln. location with a dedicated space for walk-in HIV/STI testing. The new space solely offers walk-in HIV/STI testing with its own entrance next door to the main entrance for Kind Clinic Austin — Koenig. Walk-in testing patients who are […]
Reproductive Health Services in Central Texas
The ongoing attacks on healthcare access in our state is reprehensible, including the cowardly dismantling of Roe v. Wade and attempts to criminalize gender-affirming care. These attacks go against our core belief of respecting people’s right to their own bodily autonomy. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments challenging S.B. 8, which bans almost all […]
Kind Collective: An Interview with Karen Finley Breeding, MA, LPC-S
In collaboration with Kind Clinic, Karen Finley Breeding, MA, LPC-S facilitates the longest-running HIV support group in Austin. The group is diverse in gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and date of diagnosis. The diversity of the group creates a uniquely rich group of people who are all living with HIV, and come together once a week […]
What’s Your Fantasy? Villains
Our favorite annual event is almost here! What’s Your Fantasy?, our signature costume party, is coming up on Saturday, October 26th, and this year, we’re indulging our dark side with the theme of Villains. We love a good villain. Crass and campy, witty and wild. There are those we love (Ursula, The Joker) and those […]
Melanie Pokluda McLeroy Named THA Board Chair
Originally from Keller, TX, Melanie has lived in Austin since 1987 and has been a THA Board Member since 2015. She is passionate about finding high leverage solutions to social issues and holds degrees in History/Classical Civilization from UT and a Master of Environmental Ethics from UNT. In addition to her duties as a Board […]
How doctors in Texas are trying to protect transgender patients from a persistent threat: HIV
By: Alexandra Zavis | Contact Reporter When the Kind Clinic began offering free or low-cost hormone therapy for transgender people in March, word spread quickly here. Within days, the service was booked up until the end of June. Now the next available appointment is in December. For the patients flocking to the clinic north of downtown — […]
