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Understanding your health coverage

Health coverage pays for provider services, medications, hospital care, and special equipment when you’re sick. It’s also important when you’re not sick. Marketplace coverage includes preventive health services like immunizations for children and adults...

Published Thu, Aug 21 2014 10:40 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Affordable Care Act, HIV Policy & Programs

Mental Health & HIV: What You Should Know

Will you still love me even when you discover my truth? As someone who has been living with HIV since 2007 and was recently diagnosed as having bi-polar disorder, I understand what it’s like to operate from an emotional deficit. According to the Centers...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2014 11:39 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Communities of Color, HIV Policy & Programs, Black Gay & Bisexual Men

The Truth about my Positive Experience

There are a few things I want you to know about my positive experience. Whether you’ve worked in HIV for decades or are new to the epidemic, we all start somewhere. I’m a filmmaker and, ironically, my first introduction to the epidemic was through film...

Published Thu, Aug 14 2014 3:13 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Communities of Color, People Living With HIV, HIV Policy & Programs, Black Gay & Bisexual Men

HHS awards more than $295 million in Affordable Care Act funds to increase access to primary care at health centers

Funding creates an estimated 4,750 new jobs; Helps newly insured access care Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today $295 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 1,195 health centers in every U.S. State, the District of...

Published Wed, Sep 17 2014 8:00 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HRSA, Affordable Care Act

CDC’s New “HIV Treatment Works” Supports National Efforts to Improve Outcomes Along the HIV Care Continuum

Earlier this week, I had the privilege of participating in the launch of HIV Treatment Works, CDC’s first national communication campaign focused exclusively on encouraging treatment and care for people living with HIV. The campaign features people living...

Published Fri, Sep 19 2014 10:00 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: People Living With HIV, CDC, HIV Policy & Programs, Treatment, HIV Continuum of Care

National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (NHAAAD)

Today is the 7th annual observance of National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (NHAAAD). This year’s theme reminds us that Aging is a part of life: HIV doesn’t have to be. To further the goals of reducing new cases of HIV among older people and supporting...

Published Thu, Sep 18 2014 12:58 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV/AIDS Awareness Days, HIV Policy & Programs

Surgeon agrees to treat HIV-positive patients after losing federal funding

A California surgeon has voluntarily entered into a Post-Termination Compliance Agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to restore his eligibility to receive federal funding from HHS. The surgeon...

Published Mon, Aug 04 2014 1:54 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: National HIV/AIDS Strategy, People Living With HIV, HIV Policy & Programs

Follow #AIDS2014

Members of the global HIV community will convene in Melbourne, Australia for 20th International AIDS Conference (IAC) 2014 from Sunday, July 20-25, 2014. We extend our condolences to the loved ones of all those on board Malaysia Flight 17. Throughout...

Published Sat, Jul 19 2014 9:13 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Conferences, New Media, AIDS 2014

National HIV Testing Day 2014: HIV Testing Saves Lives

Tomorrow is National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), a day on which we join with partners from all walks of life to promote HIV testing and early diagnosis of HIV across the United States, and remind every American that HIV testing saves lives. Today, a person...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2014 7:00 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV/AIDS Awareness Days, Testing, National HIV/AIDS Strategy, HIV Policy & Programs

HHS awards $83.4 million to train new primary care providers

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell today announced $83.4 million in Affordable Care Act funding to support primary care residency programs in 60 Teaching Health Centers across the nation. The funding will help train more...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2014 9:38 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HRSA, Affordable Care Act, HIV Policy & Programs

HHS announces the availability of $100 million in Affordable Care Act funding to expand access to primary care through new community health centers

HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today the availability of $100 million from the Affordable Care Act to support an estimated 150 new health center sites across the country in 2015. New health center sites will increase access to comprehensive...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2014 3:42 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HRSA, Affordable Care Act, HIV Policy & Programs

Updated HHS Adult and Adolescent Antiretroviral Treatment Guidelines Released

The HHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents announces the release of the updated Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents. Key additions and revisions to the guidelines include...

Published Thu, May 01 2014 12:09 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV Policy & Programs, Treatment

USCA 2014: Viral Hepatitis in the Spotlight for the First Time

Viral hepatitis has long been a concern of organizations working in the HIV/AIDS field because of high rates of co-infection. It is estimated that 10% of people living with HIV are co-infected with hepatitis B and 25% are co-infected with hepatitis C...

Published Mon, Oct 06 2014 12:52 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV Policy & Programs, Viral Hepatitis

USCA 2014: Spotlight on HIV in Latino Communities

The U.S. Conference on AIDS (USCA) got underway in San Diego yesterday and members of the AIDS.gov team are among the participants. In the coming days, we’ll be sharing some highlights from the conference for those of our readers who are not able to attend...

Published Fri, Oct 03 2014 8:34 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Communities of Color, National HIV/AIDS Strategy, People Living With HIV, HIV Policy & Programs

Nov. 24 Webinar on Health Insurance Marketplace Outreach and Enrollment for People At Risk for and Living with HIV: Register Today!

The 2015 open enrollment period to sign up for health coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace—beginning November 15, 2014 and running through February 15, 2015—offers an important opportunity for the HIV community. As part of our World AIDS...

Published Thu, Nov 13 2014 10:12 AM by blog.aids.gov — HIV Policy & Programs. Research. New Media.

Filed under: HIV/AIDS Awareness Days, Affordable Care Act, HIV Policy & Programs

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