News 2014
Survey: Insurance Rates Lag In Health Law Holdout States
Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Joe Thompson
A Gallup poll released Tuesday says that the Affordable Care Act is significantly increasing the number of Americans with health insurance, especially in states that are embracing the law. It echoes previous Gallup surveys, and similar findings by the Urban Institute and RAND Corp.
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Best Practices in Engaging the LGBT Community on the Affordable Care Act
Distribution of LGBT People in the United States, 2013
Across America, the Affordable Care Act is having a tremendous, positive impact on the health, wellbeing, and economic security of millions of Americans, including LGBT people and their families. Many members of the LGBT community face limited access to health care and insurance, and are less likely to get the preventive care they need to stay healthy. The Affordable Care Act directly addresses some of these needs. That's why, during the first open enrollment period — from October 1, 2013 to March 30, 2014 — LGBT leaders and organizations at the national, state, and local level worked hard to raise awareness of the Affordable Care Act and get members of their communities covered. (Need examples? Click here.)
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Criminals, Victims and the Black Men Left Behind
Jeremy Berry, a homeless 22-year-old on Chicago's South Side, has been shot twice in the past 15 months
Editor's note: Our series "Life Cycles of Inequity" explores the ways in which inequity impacts the lives of black men. Each month, we focus on a life stage or event in which that impact has been shown to be particularly profound. This article was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute.
In This Issue
We publish the first of a three-part series on how, contrary to the historical public health message, HIV does in fact discriminate. Linda Villarosa reports.
HIV Does Discriminate: The Worldwide Fight Against Stigma and Discrimination, Part 1
In a reversal of a long-standing public health mantra, one of the key messages from AIDS 2014 is that HIV does discriminate. In the first of this three-part series, writer Linda Villarosa lays out the populations most at risk and spotlights sex workers' fight for their rights.
The first time I attended an International HIV/AIDS Conference, 12 years ago, a media trainer advised our group of journalists reporting on the event not to interview activists. "Stick to the scientists and focus on the serious stuff," she said.
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