News 2017
The HIV Treatment Cascade: The Key to Better Care
Derrick Butler, M.D., MPH, Associate Medical Director and HIV Specialist, T.H.E. (To Help Everyone) Clinic, Los Angeles.
Educating as many people as possible about HIV/AIDS is critical. However, in order for us to reach the end of the epidemic, every person must ultimately be willing and able to get the medical care that he or she needs. A Brown Bag Lunch Webinar sponsored by the Black AIDS Institute and Gilead Sciences in late August offered suggestions on ways to make that happen.
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Latest Snag In ACA Sign-Ups: Those Who Guide Consumers Are Hitting Roadblocks
ACA Roadblocks
While health care uncertainty roils Washington, the rest of the country is coasting toward Obamacare season.
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New HIV Diagnoses: Large Improvements In Some Groups Overshadow Results for People and Places Being Left Behind
HIV new diagnosis rate is down.
New HIV diagnoses are on the decline in the United States. Our previous blog in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) Indicator series showed that from 2010 to 2014 there was nearly a 7% decline in new diagnoses. Further, in 2014, we met the annual NHAS target for reducing new HIV diagnoses overall.
Hepatitis C Drug's Lower Cost Paves Way For Medicaid, Prisons To Expand Treatment
HIV new diagnosis rate is down.
Valerie Green is still waiting to be cured. The Delaware resident was diagnosed with hepatitis C more than two years ago, but she doesn't qualify yet for the Medicaid program's criteria for treatment with a new class of highly effective but pricey drugs.
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Is Anybody Home at HUD?
Benjamin S. Carson, Dr., M.D. in his role as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is "dismantling of the administrative state."
A long-harbored conservative dream — the "dismantling of the administrative state" — is taking place under Secretary Ben Carson.