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6 02, 2018

Publix Reverses, Will Cover HIV Prevention Drug PrEP for Employees

By JRL Charts|2025-11-30T15:00:21-08:00February 6th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: HIV/AIDS News, Human Rights, Insurance coverage PrEP, LGBTQ workplace equality, Publix grocery chain, reverse decision PrEP|

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 [...]

1 02, 2018

Publix Grocery Chain Denies PrEP HIV Drug to Employees

By JRL Charts|2025-11-30T15:00:43-08:00February 1st, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, David Holland, Emory University, Fulton County PrEP Clinic, HIV/AIDS News, Publix Supermarkets|

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 [...]

29 01, 2018

President Trump Proposes Draconian Cuts to People with HIV, Women, LGBTQ Americans

By JRL Charts|2025-11-30T15:00:59-08:00January 29th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: AIDS Funding, cut funding to HIV AIDS research, global AIDS funding, Heatlh Resources and Services Administration, hepatitis, HIV, HIV/AIDS News, National Institutes of Health, outreach programs, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, Trump budget cuts 2018, tuberculosis|

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 [...]

24 01, 2018

Aetna Agrees to Pay $17 Million for Leaking Members HIV Status

By JRL Charts|2025-11-30T15:01:21-08:00January 24th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Aetna, Aetna HIV Data Breach Class Action Suit, HIV medications, HIV patient privacy, HIV/AIDS News, to pay $17 million in damages|

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 [...]

29 12, 2017

Trump Fires Entire HIV/AIDS Council Via FedEx, Looks to Cut $150 Million from Research

By JRL Charts|2025-11-30T15:01:38-08:00December 29th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Centers of Disease Control, Gabriel Maldonado, gay men, HIV/AIDS News, people of color, termination letters via Fedex, transgender women, Trump fires HIV/AIDS council|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has fired the remaining members of the HIV/AIDS council. Not by calling them in to discuss the matter, not by sending an internal memo but by sending each member a pink slip in the mail by way of FedEx. If that wasn't bad enough, [...]

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