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

Our media partnerships combine targeted public service messages with longer-form special programming or editorial and other forms of outreach. Free informational resources are provided through toll-free hotlines and/or websites that reach millions of young people. The Foundation works collaboratively with its media partners providing expert substantive guidance on all products.

The Foundation’s decade-long work in this field includes ongoing partnerships with many of the leading media companies in this country: KNOW HIV/AIDS with Viacom and the CBS Corporation; think:hiv and think:sexual health with MTV(and Staying Alive with MTV International); Rap it Up with BET; and Enterate/Protegate with Univision.

Internationally, the Foundation is working in Africa, the Caribbean, India and Russia to help develop national and regional coalitions of media companies to address HIV/AIDS. In 2004, we joined with UNAIDS to launch the Global Media AIDS Initiative (GMAI), a call to action issued by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to urge the world’s media leaders to contribute their vast assets to fighting the global pandemic.

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This chartpack provides a snapshot of racial/ethnic differences in Medicare beneficiaries? prescription drug coverage, use, and spending. It examines patterns separately for beneficiaries under age 65 and 65+. The summary discusses the relevance of the key findings to the current policy debates about prescription drug coverage.

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Kaiser/HRET Survey: 2002 State Employee Health Plans

State employee health plans provided coverage for 3.4 million state government employees in 2002. The Kaiser/HRET Survey: 2002 State Employee Health Plans finds that premiums for state employee health plans increased 12.8% in 2002, similar to national averages. It also finds that state employee plan premiums are slightly more expensive than the national average and that state workers’ contributions are less expensive than the average U.S. firm.

The Kaiser/HRET Survey: 2002 State Employee Health Plans is a supplement to the annual Kaiser/HRET Employer Health Benefits Survey, and offers an overview of health insurance practices among state employee plans and U.S. firms.

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Low-income assistance is a key feature of the Medicare prescription drug proposals passed by the House (H.R. 1) and the Senate (S.1). The attached tables present national and state-level data on the number of low-income elderly and disabled Medicare beneficiaries who may be eligible for additional assistance, based on the income eligibility thresholds specified in the House and Senate proposals (135%, 150%, and 160% of poverty).

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The latest survey of eligibility rules and enrollment and renewal procedures in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in their Medicaid and SCHIP programs for children and parents. It reflects changes states implemented between January 2002 and April 2003. The current survey also solicited information about states premiums and cost-sharing practices.

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• Enrolling Children and Families in Health Coverage: The Promise of Doing More (50 State Survey as of January 2002)

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This report presents information on the number of children enrolled in SCHIP for each state, for specific months from 1998 to December 2002. As of December 2002, the SCHIP program covered 3.7 million low-income children. An increase of 280,000 children during 2002.

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This publication provides state-by-state enrollment information and identifies national trends from the data. The report focuses on the five-year period from June 1997 to June 2002. In June 2002,total Medicaid enrollment in the United States reached over 38.1 million persons. This was an increase of nearly 3.2 million Medicaid enrollees from June 2001, or anannual increase of 9.2 percent.

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provides comprehensive data on the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on Latinos in the United States. Based on the most recent data and research on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among Latinos, the report includes an overview and epidemic profile, as well as data on major trends, access to and use of health services, and perceptions of HIV/AIDS.

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This updated document, prepared by Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., provides a side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate Medicare proposals, as passed on June 27, 2003. The side-by-side describes key provisions of H.R. 1, The Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003, and S. 1, The Prescription Drug and Medicare Improvement Act of 2003. This updated document, which includes CBO’s recent estimates of the costs of each bill and additional detail on payments to plans and the provisions on premium support in the House bill, has been prepared as part of the Foundation’s continuing effort to track the Medicare prescription drug debate. The Foundation will be releasing a longer, more-detailed comparison of the two bills in the near future and will continue to update this side-by-side to reflect the conference agreement.

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• Medicare Drug Benefit Calculator