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  • Federal Policy Changes Threaten to Overwhelm ADAPs

    coverage for those without affordable insurance options and sustaining the nation’s viral suppression gains expansion adults will be required to document at least 80 hours of “qualifying activities” each month to maintain The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected these reductions by a bipartisan vote of 26–3, maintaining Maintaining these investments is far less costly than responding to the resurgence of uncontrolled HIV access to medication, case management, and communication between providers and clients is critical to maintaining

  • HIV Long-Acting Injectables Face Policy Hurdles After CROI 2025

    The Phase 1 study data showed that both intramuscular formulations maintained plasma concentrations well combination of lenacapavir with broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) teropavimab and zinlirvimab maintained This regimen, which gained FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation in January 2025, could offer a complete (cabotegravir for PrEP) is $3,700 per dosing kit, translating to approximately $22,200 annually for maintenance

  • Florida's ADAP Cuts Put 16,000 People Living with HIV at Risk

    The state is eliminating insurance premium assistance, which previously helped people maintain coverage no guidance on which generics will replace it, and a warning that additional formulary restrictions may Some people will not receive termination letters because they did not consent to mailings at home. In the early 2010s, following the 2008 recession, Florida maintained the largest ADAP waiting list in The economic argument for maintaining access is well-established: keeping people in care and virally

  • Mapping Injustice - Redlining's Legacy in HIV Treatment Delays

    The findings validate what many healthcare advocates have long observed: geography profoundly influences reality is that more than 25 years of market-driven health facility consolidation has really left too many Research shows that patient steering to mail-order or specific chain pharmacies disrupts established When mergers occur, mandate maintenance of essential services in historically underserved areas and require

  • Prescription Drug Affordability Boards and the ADA

    It’s a question being asked about Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDABs) as they gain traction However, the ADA does recognize that some accommodations may pose an "undue burden" on covered entities used to assess the value of medical interventions by considering both the quantity and quality of life gained Some proponents of the QALY have proposed an alternative measure called the Equal Value of Life Years Gained rights organizations and people with disabilities cannot fully compensate for the inherent biases that may

  • Partisan Battles Put Public Health Programs in Jeopardy

    These funding cuts have significantly curtailed prevention services, limiting the CDC's ability to maintain of 38 hospitals (23.7%) reporting increases in charity care as a percentage of annual revenues after gaining political challenges, has limited the capacity to expand prevention services, enhance outreach, and maintain

  • Ripple Effect - How PBMs and Counterfeit Drugs Threaten Patients

    In other instances, PBMs offer higher reimbursement rates to their mail-order pharmacy and work hard Pharmacies, caught in the vise of financial pressures, may unknowingly procure medications from less Affordability Boards (PDABs) and Their Impact Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDABs) are quickly gaining

  • Covid-19: How Far We've Come & How Far We Have to Go

    formal disapproval of Medicaid work requirements, to say information is coming at “break neck speed” may startling HIV outbreak in West Virginia, overdoses increasing as a result of COVID, some of greatest tools gained Everything you were outraged by (and may still be enraged by thanks to vaccine access scarcity) remains our shoulders, waiting to be exploited by an opportunistic disaster.Indeed, the ghost of Scott County may

  • FTC Ramps Up Efforts Against Hospital Consolidation

    Reduced Access and Quality of Care Despite potential efficiencies, evidence suggests consolidation may Hospitals gain market power that suppresses wages, especially for skilled professionals such as nurses studies, however, suggest these mergers might increase prices and reduce competition, as hospitals gain Consequently, many potentially harmful mergers proceed without challenge, consolidating markets further stress of a medical diagnosis or treatment, are particularly vulnerable to persuasive sales tactics and may

  • Prescription Drug Affordability Boards - A Threat to Ending the HIV Epidemic

    Reduced Access and Quality of Care Despite potential efficiencies, evidence suggests consolidation may Hospitals gain market power that suppresses wages, especially for skilled professionals such as nurses studies, however, suggest these mergers might increase prices and reduce competition, as hospitals gain Consequently, many potentially harmful mergers proceed without challenge, consolidating markets further stress of a medical diagnosis or treatment, are particularly vulnerable to persuasive sales tactics and may

  • A New Single-Tablet Option for HIV's "Forgotten Population" Could Change Lives. Will Policy Let It?

    One pill, once a day, to maintain viral suppression. But for tens of thousands of people in the United States and many more worldwide, it never did. Now, new data suggest that may be about to change. When the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) message gained traction, it was a turning point for many The science was clear: people who achieve and maintain viral suppression cannot sexually transmit the

  • America's Vaccination Problem

    His claim that patients were hospitalized "mainly for quarantine" was astonishingly false. The most severe remains in West Texas’ Gaines County, where nearly 14% of schoolchildren have religious

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