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  • Understanding the Impact of New Treatments on HIV Testing: Summary of a Forum

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    Recognizing this as a critical time in the HIV epidemic, the Kaiser Family Foundation convened a meeting on January 28 - 30, 1998 to re-examine HIV testing. Participants from community agencies, advocacy groups, national associations, and all levels of government, as well as researchers and legal experts, were brought together. This document summarizes their discussions on current understanding of and new research on HIV testing, identifying key concerns, and discussions on how to enhance HIV…

  • Women’s Health Care Providers STD Counseling and Testing

    Poll Finding

    Many women rely on their physicians to help them assess whether they are at risk for STDs and to provide them with information about testing, treatment and how to protect themselves. To better understand how often they discuss and screen for STDs, including HIV, the Kaiser Family Foundation surveyed 767 physicians, including 566 obstetricians and gynecologists and 201 family practice practitioners, for the National Survey of Women's Health Care Providers on Reproductive Health. Survey Snapshot…

  • HIV Prevention for Injection Drug Users, Special Supplement to JAIDS

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    HIV Prevention for Injection Drug Users, Special Supplement to JAIDS This special supplement from the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology represents a compilation of selected presentations from the 1995 workshop sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Center of Substance Abuse Treatment, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse entitled "Sterile Needles and Syringes for Drug Users Who Continue Injecting". Other…

  • Satellite Sessions and Press Briefings – XV International AIDS Conference

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    Kaiser Family Foundation Sessions and Press Briefings XV International AIDS Conference, 2004 Satellite Session: Resource Tracking and Priority SettingUNAIDS is hosting this panel that will feature the work of the UNAIDS Consortium on Resource Tracking. The session will highlight the importance of tracking global HIV/AIDS financial information, review the methodological approaches used to track HIV/AIDS resource flows; and determine gaps in HIV/AIDS financial information and coverage as well as strategies for moving forward. Jennifer Kates,…

  • Preventive Services Use Among People with Private Insurance Coverage

    Issue Brief

    This analysis of claims data estimates that six in ten people with private health insurance - or about 100 million people - used at least one preventive service covered without any out-of-pocket costs through a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a typical year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (2018). The provision that requires most private health plans to cover many preventive services without any cost-sharing for their enrollees is being challenged in…

  • The National HIV Prevention Inventory: The State of HIV Prevention Across the U.S.

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    This report provides the first comprehensive inventory of how HIV prevention is delivered across the country, based on a survey of the 65 health departments receiving direct federal HIV prevention funding, including every state and territory, plus six cities. The report was authored by researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. Report (.pdf)

  • Prevention Indicators for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

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    This report from the 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 HIV prevention indicators used by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 15 focus countries and compares them to those used by other major international initiatives. The overview is designed to inform policymakers and other experts in an area that…

  • June 2007 Report From The Global HIV Prevention Working Group

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    The Global HIV Prevention Working Group issued its fifth report, Bringing HIV Prevention to Scale: An Urgent Global Priority. The Global HIV Prevention Working Group is an international panel of more than 50 leading public health experts, clinicians, biomedical, and behavioral researchers, advocates and people affected by HIV/AIDS, convened by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation. This is the fifth report released by the Working Group. News Release Executive Summary…