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State Legislative Activity Supports Federal Evidence-Based HIV Prevention Initiative

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Across the nation, public health agencies have mounted herculean efforts to stem the COVID-19 pandemic while addressing a pre-existing HIV epidemic and an opioid crisis that is serving as a source for many new HIV outbreaks. Tackling these ...

Policies that Reduce Stigma are Critical to Ending the HIV Epidemic

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Supporting policies that reduce HIV stigma and promote health equity is an important public health issue.

Effective Public Health Approaches to Reducing Congenital Syphilis

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Effective Public Health Approaches to Reducing Congenital Syphilis astho, association of state and territorial health officials, provider bias, syphilis screening requirements, medicaid family planning programs, medicaid eligibility, ...

Expanding Pharmacist-Prescribed HIV PrEP

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PrEP is a powerful tool to reduce new HIV infections; expanding access to PrEP is a priority within the federal Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. initiative. One way to increase access to PrEP is by allowing pharmacists to prescribe and ...

Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships in Iowa: Improving Access to Care for People Living with HIV

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To learn more about Iowa’s recent efforts to fight against HIV, ASTHO spoke with Sarah Reisetter, chief of compliance and a deputy director at Iowa HHS, and Randy Mayer, chief of the Iowa HHS Bureau of HIV, STI, and Hepatitis.