Opinion We need real sex ed — required and comprehensive By Abigail Murphy Multimedia Reporter Abigail Murphy Updated Aug 2, 2025 There’s this dichotomy that adolescence is riddled with sexual encounters and yet is too innocent to know about sex. To be fair, adolescence i…
Opinion We need real sex ed — required and comprehensive By Abigail Murphy Multimedia Reporter Abigail Murphy Updated Aug 9, 2025 There’s this dichotomy that adolescence is riddled with sexual encounters and yet is too innocent to know about sex. To be fair, adolescence i…
Opinion OUR VIEW: Remembering World AIDS Day Staff Report Updated Aug 2, 2025 Last Friday was World AIDS Day, and the month of December is World AIDS Awareness Month. Between all the holiday festivities at the end of the…
News FREE STORY: Health Department offers immunizations for students By Natalie Nettles May 3, 2010 The Alabama Department of Public Health has recently changed its rules governing immunization to better protect Alabama’s young children and a…
Archives State STD rates among highest in nation By Staff Reports Nov 15, 2007 MONTGOMERY (AP) – Alabama was among the states with the highest rates in the country for syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia last year, accordin…