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For more than a decade, funding for the Ryan White Program has remained relatively flat while the share of people living with HIV has grown. Learn more in this Chart of the Week.
CDC HIV Prevention Funding, 1981-2019 Download…
Insurance Coverage Among People with HIV, 2014 Download…
Following President Trump's Feb. 5 State of the Union announcement of a commitment to end HIV in the United States by 2030, KFF's Tina Hoff answers three questions about HIV in America today and lessons learned through KFF's Greater Than AIDS campaigns.
The Medicaid expansion status of states, counties, and cities targeted by the recently announced federal plan to end the HIV epidemic are detailed in the latest Chart of the Week.
The Global HIV/AIDS Timeline is an ongoing reference tool for the many political, scientific, cultural, and community developments that have occurred over the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Given the Trump Administration’s promotion of short-term limited-duration (STLD) health insurance policies, this brief examines what they mean for people with HIV. The analysis assesses whether people with HIV could enroll in STLD plans by applying to 38 plans across five states and getting in each case. It also assesses whether such plans could meet basic HIV care and treatment needs for someone diagnosed once enrolled. This finding takes on new importance in light of the Administration’s decision not to defend the ACA and to argue for eliminating pre-existing condition protections.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals often face challenges and barriers to accessing needed health services and, as a result, can experience worse health outcomes. These challenges can include stigma, discrimination, violence, and rejection by families and communities, as well as other barriers, such as inequality in the workplace and health insurance sectors, the provision of substandard care, and outright denial of care because of an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity. This issue brief examines population characteristics of the LGBT community and the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Supreme Court rulings and other policy changes related to same-sex marriage that can insurance coverage and access to health care services, and recent actions by the Trump Administration.
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