Overview
- The Department of Health and Human Services notified grantees on June 26, 2026 that it was terminating 53 of 67 Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) awards, cutting roughly $67–68 million in funding.
- HHS told recipients the cancellations followed a review that found some curricula to be medically inaccurate, age-inappropriate, or overly sexually explicit and therefore inconsistent with the TPP statute.
- The terminated awards affect a wide mix of providers, including Planned Parenthood affiliates, state and local health departments, universities, and community nonprofits that run classroom and clinic-linked programs.
- HHS simultaneously posted two replacement funding opportunities totaling about $71.7 million that require applicants to pass a formal alignment review meant to screen out content the agency deems explicit.
- Advocates say the cuts have caused immediate service disruptions for programs that rely entirely on TPP money and they expect legal challenges citing a 2017 court ruling that blocked a similar early termination.