News 2013
HIV/AIDS Advocate and Former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Dies at 96
Last week the HIV/AIDS community lost an influential advocate for treatment and prevention who brought AIDS to the forefront during the Reagan administration: C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D., the former surgeon general of the United States.
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Despite Perry's Stance, Texas Opposition to the ACA Decreasing
One in a series of articles examining the rollout of the Affordable Care Act around the nation.
Now that the biggest challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) are behind it, all that's left is the implementation stage. But not all states are on board with the changes being brought about by health-care reform.
Read more: Despite Perry's Stance, Texas Opposition to the ACA Decreasing
CROI Took Place Last Week in Atlanta and Online
The 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) took place last week in Atlanta, Georgia. This annual scientific meeting of the world’s leading researchers working to understand, prevent, and treat HIV/AIDS and its complications provides a vital forum for translating laboratory and clinical research into progress against the AIDS epidemic.
Federal Government To Run Insurance Marketplaces In Half The States
It's official. The Obama administration will be running new health insurance marketplaces in half the states— including the major population centers of Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania.
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In This Issue
The Black AIDS Institute is proud to announce that a member of the Black Treatment Advocate Network has been named a community member of the DHHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. We profile Danielle Houston about the role she'll play in helping to craft these guidelines.