PRIORITY FOR OBAMA”S HIV POLICY AGENDA: NEEDLE EXCHANGE

President Obama has vowed a renewed focus on the domestic HIV epidemic. The only thing that I can give President Bush is establishing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to address HIV/AIDS globally but he failed miserably at addressing the epidemic in this country. President Obama’s [...]

The HIV/AIDS Community is universally praising President Obama for his appointment of Jeffrey S. Crowley as the head on the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) and I agree. I’ve known Jeff for over 10 years and couldn’t imagine a better choice. He has vast expertise on Ryan White programs, Medicaid and Medicare. [...]

As the Senate begins to debate the economic stimulus package, much negative attention has been drawn to the inclusion of funding for HIV and STD screening and prevention. However, the funding is not being attacked for lack of stimulatory effect or relevance to economic security, but rather due to an irrelevant and misguided moral controversy, [...]

I’m a health care advocate and policy geek so I might be going all wonky on you in this piece, but if you are a progressive, this is an incredibly important issue.

Congress, with the Obama Administration’s support, has included significant Medicaid funding in the proposed economic recovery package.   As in 2003-2004 when Congress [...]

I was doing what I do best, surfing for some facts for an article I was assisting another author with.  I ran across this video that gave me pause.  It was a simple statement, “Robert Gallo:  The Man That Created AIDS”  Hey, I was game.  I live in America where the government has no end [...]