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Number of Adults/Adolescents Estimated to be Living with an HIV Diagnosis, Top 10 States, United States, year-end 2010 Download Source CDC, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention Atlas.
New HIV Infections in the U.S., by Select Characteristics, 2010 Download Source CDC, HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report, Vol. 17, No. 4; December 2012.
New HIV Infections by Race/Ethnicity and Sex, United States, 2010 Download Source CDC, HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report, Vol. 17, No. 4; December 2012.
Increasing Share See Global Progress on HIV/AIDS Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation surveys.
AIDS Diagnoses by Transmission Category, United States, 1985 & 2011 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation, based on CDC, Presentation by Dr. Harold Jaffe, “HIV/AIDS in America Today”, National HIV Prevention Conference, 2003; CDC, HIV Surveillance Report, Vol. 23; February 2013.
We recently wrote about the different ways in which the Affordable Care Act (ACA) changes pathways to health insurance coverage for people with HIV, and chronicled these specifics, as well as several outstanding questions, in a policy brief. As we noted, among the many provisions of the ACA designed to improve care is a new option available to state Medicaid programs to provide “health homes” for Medicaid enrollees with chronic conditions, with a temporary enhanced…
This brief explores key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for people with HIV, and the opportunities and challenges for using the law to improve HIV care, particularly in light of the Supreme Court's 2012 ruling on the law.
There are multiple sources of insurance coverage and care for people with HIV in the United States. These include public programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare, and the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, as well as private coverage through an employer or in the individual market. Medicaid, the nation's principal safety-net health insurance program for low-income Americans, is estimated to cover the largest share of people with HIV. Fewer are covered by Medicare, the federal health…
The July 2012 Visualizing Health Policy infographic looks at the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic after three decades, released during the 19th biannual International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, D.C. See the full-size infographic at The Journal of the American Medical Association View the related Slideshow Visualizing Health Policy is a monthly infographic series produced in partnership with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Each month's infographic is freely available on JAMA’s website and is…
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