By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer President Trump's proposed "American Budget", proposes domestic HIV prevention funding to be cut $34.6 million while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Global AIDS Program should be slashed by as much as $58 million. The draconian Trump 'American Budget' further would go after funding for the CDC’s overall discretionary [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer After major backlash for refusing to cover drugs used to prevent HIV/AIDS, PrEP, the Florida-based grocery chain Publix released a series of tweets on Tuesday Feb. 6 stating that the company has decided to add the coverage of PrEP for its 1,169 employees should they request it. Known for not [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer One of the America's largest supermarket chains faces backlash over the claims that one of its stores refused to cover the HIV prevention drug PrEP, for one of their employees through their insurance plan. Atlanta's director of the Fulton County PrEP Clinic David Holland, who also serves an assistant professor [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C — According to the White House budget for Fiscal year 2018, cuts are being proposed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which covers programs on HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis as well as outreach programs on sexually transmitted diseases education. President Trump becomes the first president since President [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer The third largest Insurance carrier in the USA, Aetna, has agreed to pay over $17 million in damages to its customers after causing the largest-ever data breach involving HIV patient's privacy. The announcement came on Wednesday Jan. 17. The case originally started during the summer of 2017 in July when [...]