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  • 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

  • New CDC Report; More than a Decade After a Cure, HepC Persists

    and policy barriers, like requiring sobriety, a high level of liver damage, or other restrictions to gaining

  • The Coming HIV Care Crisis

    Research demonstrates that 42% of Medicaid enrollees with HIV gained coverage through the Affordable mere statistical abstraction, it represents hundreds of thousands of people living with HIV (PLWH) who gained The region accounts for 52% of new diagnoses, and includes many non-expansion states where 66% of HIV-positive intersection of geography, race, and poverty creates concentrated zones where HIV care infrastructure may

  • HIV & Covid-19: A Story of Concurrent Pandemics

    While that grail may have been snatched away by the attention COVID-19 is justly generating, this isn a vaccine.”Indeed, with the United States’ (and the world’s) response relying heavily on expertise gained the costs of these investments down the road and maybe, eventually “getting to it”.As has been said many

  • When Anti-Equality Means Anti-HIV

    trans health advocate, all the while access to comprehensive sex ed has remained polarized despite gains

  • Veterans Linkage to Care: Perspectives on HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Opioids & Mental Health

    For Veterans, staying connected to appropriate levels of care continues to be vital for many reasons. Some healthcare providers may not be actively probing for rare conditions like pulmonary hypertension Without proper linkages to care, so many human pathways of connectivity can begin to become severed. is a dangerous mental state to be in not only as a Veteran struggling with civilian life, but also maintaining Additionally, women also reported concerns about maintaining their privacy within the systems that they

  • When Public Health Becomes Profit over Patients

    Leveraging regulatory gaps to operate in gray areas without clear accountability While these strategies may Less than 2% of 340B net revenues were allocated to federal grantee entities Disproportionate gains for These findings illustrate a troubling reality: the 340B program, like many public programs is increasingly

  • 2020 HIV Surveillance Proves Earlier COVID-19 Concerns

    On May 24th, the U.S. The anticipation is akin to waiting for a bill in the mail, “how bad is it gonna be?” While many public health programs are working to recover personnel shifts, some state legislatures are public health programming and if these jobs aren’t filled, then the jobs associated with HIV programming may

  • Biden Drug Policy Agenda: NIH Invests in Harm Reduction

    consumption sites as harm reduction policies and syringe service programs (including vending machines and mail Rather, state drug paraphernalia laws may be more apt at addressing these issues. applications and not just focus on particular illicit substances but also the items substance users may community, policy makers and program planners need to consider those areas which exist as medical deserts may

  • 2023: Regulatory Items to Watch

    There may be some surprising room for agreement though. As of the time of this writing, this may well be the first Republican-controlled Congress that is not As this case makes its way through higher courts, the 5th Circuit is next, states may have the chance Currently, many patients have to wait weeks if not months to get responses on PAs or appeals. Now, the PA rule is, as many, limited in scope but not by much.

  • Jen's Half Cents: The Trauma of Advocacy

    exits from the field of public health have gotten some attention, as evidenced by CNN’s coverage in May fired, or retired, those that take on the daily tasks of providing care within communities haven’t gained Many providers, advocates, community members, survivors, loved ones of those lost to COVID, some elected White programs are asked to detail to case managers intimate and personal aspects of their lives they may

  • HIV/HCV Co-Infection Watch Q3: July 2026

    This contradicts language carried in prior editions stating that all state Medicaid programs had maintained Texas ADAP maintains no HCV coverage, despite a brief period of covering DAAs in 2022. weeks; NOT FDA approved for 24 weeks July 2026 Notes: Program Stability: The VA HCV treatment program maintained Good Samaritan laws may or may not provide protection to those currently under parole or probation. Virgin Islands maintain syringe services programs.

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