A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, , provides a detailed overview of how donors finance the international response to HIV/AIDS and presents the latest data on G8 and EC funding commitments and disbursements. The report also discusses the concept of “fair share” and examines different methodologies for assessing fair share among donors.

Data for the report were collected through a collaborative effort among UNAIDS, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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July 2005 Report (.pdf)

The snapshot highlights data on young, black men from a Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University survey on African American men. It was released at a July 2006 event, “Paths to Success: A Forum on Young African American Men.”

Survey Snapshot (.pdf)

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The Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post on July 18 hosted a forum in the Foundation’s Barbara Jordan Conference Center featuring Bill Cosby and a panel of national leaders examining the experiences of young black men in America.

The forum, Paths to Success: A Forum on Young African-American Men, addressed the results of a major new national survey conducted by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University. The discussion focused on strategies to enable young black men to succeed in America today and built on themes presented in the Post‘s series, “Being a Black Man.”

The forum began with a conversation with Bill Cosby and was followed by a panel discussion among national leaders and young people. Harvard Law School Professor and Foundation Trustee Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. moderated the forum. Foundation CEO and former New Jersey Human Services Commissioner Drew Altman gave the opening remarks and highlighted key findings from the survey.

Panelists include:

• Marcellus (Bishop) Allen, president of Saving OurSelves (S.O.S.), an organization aimed at preventing gang violence
• Ras Baraka, high school vice principal and leader in gang intervention and prevention
• Joy Angela DeGruy-Leary, author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
• Oakland Mayor-Elect Ronald Dellums, a former Congressman and chair of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Dellum Commission on young men of color
• James Forman, Jr., professor of Law at Georgetown University
• Steven Holmes of The Washington Post
• Rev. Donald Isaac, executive director of the East of the River Clergy-Police-Community Partnership
• Jachin Leatherman, Ballou High School valedictorian
• Dr. Joshua W. Murfree Jr., vice president and national/international mentoring chairman of 100 Black Men, which leads efforts to train black men to serve as mentors, advocates and role models for black children and youth in their communities
• Wayne Nesbit, Ballou High School salutatorian
• U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
• Dr. Alvin Poussaint, a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center in Boston
• Eva Rousseau, former principal of Dunbar Senior High School in Washington, D.C.
• Faye Wattleton, president of the Center for the Advancement of Women
• James C. (Loose) White, III, one of the founders of Saving OurSelves (S.O.S.)
• Corey Wiggins, doctoral student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and 2004 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholar

Ballou Public High School graduates Wayne Nesbit (l) and Jachin Leatherman talk to Bill Cosby. In the background, doctoral student Corey Wiggins and the Rev. Donald L. Isaac look on. (Photo by Richard Bloom) Kaiser Family Foundation President and CEO Drew Altman addresses the audience, as Oakland Mayor-Elect Ronald V. Dellums and Dr. Joy Angela DeGruy-Leary look on. (Photo by Richard Bloom) Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, a Foundation trustee, moderates the panel discussion in the Barbara Jordan Conference Center. (Photo by Richard Bloom)

Survey Snapshot: Views and Experiences of Young Black Men

Young African American Men in the United States — Fact Sheet

Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard Survey of African-American Men

June 4, 2006, Washington Post article about the survey results

The Washington Post‘s complete “Being a Black Man” series, including interactive features, videos and photo galleries

Webcast Materials:

Agenda (.pdf)

Speaker Biographies (.pdf)

Kaiser Family Foundation Interviews on Washington Post Radio

About the Collaboration:

The Kaiser Family Foundation and Washington Post Radio collaborate to provide listeners of the new station in Washington, D.C. with information and analysis about current health care issues.

Kaiser experts have in-depth conversations with WTWP anchors about topics in the news, explaining what’s behind current health policy issues and helping consumers navigate the health care system. The segments are frequently broadcast from the Kaiser Family Foundation’s broadcast studio in Washington, D.C.

More information about Washington Post Radio ( WTWP Radio 107.7fm 1500am ) can be found at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/wtwpradio.

Media and Health

The Foundation enters into partnerships with major media companies to create public education campaigns on important health issues, and also studies the impact of the media on health.

Entertainment Media Partnerships

The Foundation partners with media organizations to develop multi-faceted public education campaigns on important health issues. A particular focus of our Entertainment Media Partnerships is on reaching young people with information about HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Our partnerships combine targeted public service messages with longer-form special programming or editorial and other forms of outreach. We provide complementary free resources through toll-free hotlines and/or websites that reach millions of young people. The Foundation works collaboratively with its media partners providing both expert substantive guidance and participating in production and operations.

Among the Foundation’s other current or recent media partners are: the global cross-platform KNOW HIV/AIDS partnership with Viacom; the Emmy-award winning Fight for Your Rights: Protect Yourself campaign with MTV U.S. and Staying Alive with MTV International; Rap it Up with BET; and Enterate/Protegate with Univision.

The Global Media AIDS Initiative (GMAI) was conceived of and organized by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Kaiser Family Foundation.

More Information on Individual Entertainment Media Partnerships

Program for the Study of Media and Health

The Foundation conducts research, evaluations, and analysis on the impact of media on the public’s health. The purpose of the research is to help inform policymakers, journalists, healthcare providers, and the public. A particular focus is on the exposure to and the impact of media on young people, as well as the public policies effecting access to media.

Major research projects include such topics as how teens use the Internet for health information; the amount of time children of all ages spend watching TV, playing video games, using computers, and reading; sexual messages on television; how health policy issues are portrayed on TV’s medical dramas; what viewers learn from health information in entertainment shows; and the impact of media-based public health campaigns. The Foundation also studies public policies on related media topics, including public service advertising on television, TV ratings, the V-Chip, and the impact of Internet filtering. In addition, the Foundation publishes the Teen Media Monitor, a marketing guide to youth media trends, available only to non-profits conducting public education campaigns among young people. Finally, the Program publishes a series of Fact Sheets on children and media, including such topics as children and video games, TV violence, children and the news media, parents and media, and teens and the Internet.

More information on the Program for the Study of Media and Health

Medicare Drug Benefit Enrollment Update

This enrollment update breaks down and explains the statistics related to enrollment under the new Medicare drug benefit and the separate low-income subsidy program that provides additional assistance. The enrollment update summarizes the latest enrollment figures released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Social Security Administration and compares them with earlier enrollment projections.

Issue Brief (.pdf)

In early 1996, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) contracted with the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) to conduct the first ever survey of state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs; a follow-up was conducted six months later. These early survey reports, provided here, were the pre-cursors to the National ADAP Monitoring Project, a joint initiative of the Kaiser Family Foundation and NASTAD which began the following year.

The Fiscal Status of State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs: Findings from a January 1996 National Survey of State AIDS Directors (.pdf)

Fiscal Status Update of State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs: Preliminary Findings from an August 1996 National Survey of State AIDS Programs (.pdf)

Citizenship Documentation Requirements in The Deficit Reduction Act Of 2005: Lessons From New York

New York State is one of only four states in the nation that already requires documentation of citizenship for Medicaid applicants (the others are Georgia, Montana and New Hampshire), and the only state with significant implementation experience. New York’s citizenship documentation requirement has been in place since the mid-1970s, and provides a solid base of experience that can inform the implementation of the new documentation requirement in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, as well as planning in state Medicaid programs that will be documenting citizenship for the first time.

Drawing on legal research, interviews with Medicaid officials, and a roundtable discussion with front-line enrollers who provide Medicaid application assistance, this report provides an in-depth assessment of the New York State Medicaid program experience with citizenship documentation requirements.

Report (.pdf)

A few recent state Medicaid initiatives have emerged that take the program into new directions. States have expressed a number of objectives in developing these approaches, including offering beneficiaries greater choice, promoting personal responsibility and healthier behaviors among enrollees, and, in some cases, relying more heavily on the private marketplace. In addition, states have sought to shape their initiatives in ways that could help them better predict and limit their exposure to costs.

This brief examines how these approaches change financial risk and responsibility for states, the federal government, beneficiaries and providers.

Issue Brief (.pdf)

This report — coauthored by J. Stephen Morrison (Center for Strategic and International Studies) and Jennifer Kates (Kaiser Family Foundation) — highlights the potential role of the G8 in addressing the Eurasian HIV/AIDS epidemic and further engaging Russia, China and India in the global HIV/AIDS response.

Report — English Language (.pdf)

Report — Russian Language (.pdf)