Tag: Deficit Reduction
AIDS Watch 2013: Download the slides & handouts
AIDS Watch 2013 — the annual HIV/AIDS lobby day on Capitol Hill — kicked off February 25 in Washington, DC. AIDS United and Treatment Access Expansion Project organized the event. During AIDS Watch, advocates visited with over 150 members of Congress to urge them to maintain funding for Medicare and Medicaid, implement the Affordable Care [...]
Medicaid & HIV: On the Republican Chopping Block
Check out this video from the unstoppable Families USA, describing Republican plans for budget cuts that will impact Medicaid, a vital program for people with HIV. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, this video is worth, well, all the words in the Affordable Care Act. Here’s what Families USA has to say: Republican leaders [...]
A&U Magazine: Will Deficit Reduction Undermine Good HIV Care?
A&U magazine gets snaps for covering our favorite topic – the importance of health reform for people with HIV. Here’s a snippet of Mariel Selbovitz, MPH, and Leslie G Selbovitz, MD’s article, “When it comes to effective HIV reform, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” Extensive progress in improving and coordinating care for HIV/AIDS patients [...]
Webinar Recording & Slides: Is no deal a good deal? Deficit Reduction, HIV Services & What Comes Next
Missed the Dec. 15, 2011 webinar on deficit reduction? Don’t worry – you can download the slides and watch the recording (BTW, the first speaker is Malinda Elwood of Harvard Law School Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation Treatment Access Expansion Project (TAEP)… the gremlins made us start the recording a little late!). The [...]
Toolkit & presentation: What does deficit deduction really mean for people with HIV?
Deficit reduction is a major threat to low-income and vulnerable populations, including people with or at risk for HIV/AIDS. What does this mean for you? Deficit reduction could mean major cuts to programs that are critical to people living with HIV and AIDS including Medicaid and Medicare as well as other programs that support AIDS research, [...]