Tag: National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Affordable Care Act Priorities: Opportunities for Addressing the Critical Health Care Needs of Women Living with or at Risk for HIV
What will the Affordable Care Act (ACA) offer women with or at risk for HIV? The 30 for 30 Campaign in collaboration with the Harvard Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, released a major analysis of the ACA and its impact on women living with or at risk for HIV. The White Paper, “Affordable [...]
AIDS advocates pushing for Medicaid expansion
This piece has been reposted from Politico. The original post is here. By Brett Norman The expansion of the Medicaid program — or the lack thereof — has emerged as a major focus of U.S. AIDS advocates at the 2012 International AIDS Conference this week. An estimated 1.1 million Americans are infected with the HIV [...]
AIDS 2012: Poster explains how housing is vital to AIDS treatment
The fabulous posters just keep coming at the AIDS 2012 conference. Today we’re highlighting a poster that takes a comprehensive and unexpected take on AIDS treatment by spotlighting a rarely mentioned AIDS treatment strategy: housing. AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s Art Bendixen, along with colleagues from the National AIDS Housing Coalition, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of [...]
Update on the National AIDS Strategy and the Affordable Care Act
In this video from Kaiser Health News, Greg Millett, a senior policy advisor in the Office of National AIDS Policy, talks about how the president’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy has reduced new HIV infections and how the 2010 health law will improve access to care for those living with HIV/AIDS. Millett begins discussing the Affordable Care Act and its effect [...]
AIDS 2012: Today’s Posters on HIV and Health Reform
HIVHealthReform.org’s team of correspondents is wandering the halls of the AIDS 2012 conference in DC, eagerly seeking presentations, posters and other content on the health care reform and HIV/AIDS care (and sniffing out free food). We’re going to share everything we find. We’re starting with a few posters. Although not as beautiful as a Nagel, [...]