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  • Briefing on Access to Reproductive Health Care for Low-Income Women in Five Communities

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    As policy debates over the future of access to reproductive and sexual health services heat up at the national and state levels, understanding how these policies are playing out on the ground requires getting beyond the statistics. Earlier this year, KFF, working with Health Management Associates, conducted case studies and focus groups in five different communities to hear directly from providers and low-income women.  The study addressed how national, state, and local policies, as well…

  • Responding to AIDS at Home and Abroad: How the U.S. and Other High Income Countries Compare

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    This report examines the United States' response to HIV over the last 30 years compared to that of other high-income countries. The report compares the U.S. to seven other similarly situated nations – Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom – noting patterns and themes that have emerged from their experiences. Key areas examined include governance of the national responses, the roles of affected communities and non-governmental actors, policies relating to…

  • HIV Prevention in Complex, Macro-scale Societies — A Report of the CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS Working Committee on Prevention

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    HIV Prevention in Complex, Macro-scale SocietiesA Report of the CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS Working Committee on Prevention This report from The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Task Force on HIV/AIDS Working Committee on Prevention, in collaboration with the Kaiser Family Foundation, provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges for HIV prevention efforts in "second wave" countries - countries that currently have low- to mid-level HIV prevalence but stand on the brink…

  • Evolution of an Epidemic: 25 Years of HIV/AIDS Media Campaigns in the U.S.

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    This report focuses on how national media campaigns on HIV/AIDS have evolved over the last 25 years in the U.S., reflecting the changing nature of the disease as awareness and treatment have progressed. It also provides insight on the approaches, historical context and impact of leading national public education campaigns. Report (.pdf)

  • Workplace Wellness Programs, Healthy Behaviors and Health Reform

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    Many large employers offer financial incentives to their employees to exercise regularly, improve their diets, lose weight and quit smoking. Health reform proposals would write some of these incentives into law. But some patient advocates say that, depending on how the incentives are structured, they can make coverage more expensive for those who don't qualify for them. This briefing, co-sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and AARP, discussed prevention models that are working for…

  • Women’s Health Care Chartbook: Key Findings From the Kaiser Women’s Health Survey

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    The Women's Health Care Chartbook presents findings from a national survey of women ages 18 to 64 and provides a look at the experience of women in the health care system. The chartbook includes data on insurance coverage, affordability of and access to care, use of health care services, prevention, and family health.

  • Pulling It Together: Bono, Jon Stewart and the HIV/AIDS Message

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    One of the most interesting conversations on a health topic happened recently on The Daily Show between Bono and Jon Stewart. Bono told Stewart that we were "at the beginning of the end of the AIDS epidemic," promising an announcement the next day that would explain how a combination of early treatment, treatment for pregnant women, and circumcision, would turn the epidemic around if the American people would continue to put money into the cause.…

  • Critical Challenges in the Third Decade of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

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    On June 5, 2001, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation jointly sponsored a daylong Symposium to mark the 20th year of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focus on the key challenges facing the United States at home and abroad in the epidemic's third decade. This policy brief continues the process begun that day by highlighting some of the challenges and approaches to addressing the epidemic, with a focus on the U.S. role. The policy…