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HHS approps bill scraps House cuts to HIV/AIDS programs

“We urge Congress to pass the bill that hopefully will end the instability, particularly for HIV prevention, and allow state and local health departments, community-based organizations, and the federal staff to do their work,” Carl Schmid of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute said. “With such promising tools as long-acting treatment and prevention there is so much more to be done to get them to the people who need them. Flat funding will certainly not address the growing demands, but it is far better than receiving no funding.”

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CVS Health agrees to cover new HIV prevention drug

“We are pleased that CVS Health has finally decided to cover this groundbreaking new PrEP mediation,” said Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV+ Hepatitis Policy Institute. “Four months ago, 63 HIV organizations joined us in sending a letter to CVS’s president urging them to reconsider their refusal to cover Yeztugo and reminding them of their legal obligation to cover PrEP and describe the important benefits the drug would bring to preventing HIV in the U.S.,” Schmid said in a statement.

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