Category: Health Care Access
5/23 Webinar: Navigating HIV Care : A Tool to Advance the Goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, working in collaboration with the Office of HIV/AIDS & Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP) in HHS, is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar on Thursday May 23rd, 2013! Health navigation is a hot topic in HIV care as we seek to increase the number of clients who are linked to and retained [...]
TAG Report Challenges Public Health to “Finish the Job” on the AIDS Epidemic
In 2015, the NHAS in its current form is set to expire. As we reflect, questions come to mind: what have we achieved? was it successful? what could we do better? In 18-pages, the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and a working-group attempt to start answering these questions for revisioning a 2015 NHAS. In doing so, [...]
Behind the Miracle Cure a Broken System Lurks
By Jim Merrell, HIV PJA ATLANTA, GA – The stories we tell ourselves about the world we live in matter. While we celebrate this week’s story of an HIV miracle cure, let’s not forget the story of injustice that made it possible. There have been a lot of stories about this week’s “Mississippi Miracle” – [...]
Jim Pickett: “VOICE results important to new prevention technology research”
By Jim Pickett, IRMA – The VOICE results are extremely important to the field of new prevention technology research. I hope current/future/much-needed discussions about VOICE don’t get drowned out by the HYPE (yes, all caps HYPE) surrounding the “baby cure” story which has dominated coverage out of CROI so far. If there is one VOICE [...]
More HIV Prevention Funding Should Be Shifted to Gay Men
“We must redouble our efforts to prevent HIV among gay men by shifting prevention funding to more closely match the incidence data.” While the number of HIV infections have stabilized over recent years, new infections among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with me have increased by 12%. However, prevention funding for gay men is at half [...]
