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Texas Health Action’s 2025 Texas Legislative Priorities

By Erin Dente January 30, 2025News, Uncategorized

Turning Mission into Action: Advancing Health Justice for All Texans Since 2015, Texas Health Action has built a revolutionary model of care that improves health outcomes for people impacted by HIV…

Texas Health Action Expands Access to Intersex Health Care

By Erin Dente August 22, 2023News, Uncategorized

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…

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Kind Clinic’s Central Texas Community Health Report finds need for stigma-free healthcare

By Erin Dente July 11, 2023News, Uncategorized

Demand for STI testing outpaces public health capacity 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

By Erin Dente June 9, 2023News, UncategorizedNo Comments

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…

How Three Texas Clinics Lost Nearly $20M in PrEP Funds to Prevent HIV

By Erin Dente February 22, 2023UncategorizedNo Comments

February 21, 2023 • By Trent Straube We can’t say we weren’t warned. In summer 2021, it was reported that in January 2022, drugmaker Gilead Sciences would end a reimbursement program that helps fund prevention services at…

North Texas HIV clinics face near $20M hit due to new PrEP reimbursement policy

By Erin Dente February 16, 2023UncategorizedNo Comments

By Lauren McGaughy February 15, 2023 Dr. John Carlo said it was too good to be true. For a decade, health clinics like the four he runs in the Dallas area…

Texas Health Action Names Chief Advancement Officer

By Erin Dente February 8, 2023UncategorizedNo Comments

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…

A Senseless Act of Hate and Violence Towards Our Community

By Erin Dente November 21, 2022UncategorizedNo Comments

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…

Texas Health Action To ‘Rock The Ribbon’ And Offer Free HIV Testing On World Aids Day

By Erin Dente November 16, 2022UncategorizedNo Comments

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…

Texas Health Action’s TeleKind Celebrates ‘Status Neutral’ Approach to HIV prevention and care on World AIDS Day

By Erin Dente November 16, 2022UncategorizedNo Comments

TeleKind offers HIV prevention and care regardless of HIV status AUSTIN, Texas—Texas Health Action’s TeleKind—a free tele-sexual health service that provides access to high quality HIV prevention and care without…