HIV+Hep in the News

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Spending bill excludes most anti-LGBTQ riders, but bans rainbow flags at State Department

by | Mar 22, 2024

An effort by House Republicans to slash more than $700 million in domestic HIV funding was rejected, according to Carl Schmid, the executive director of the HIV + Hepatitis Policy Institute. “While flat funding does not expand our efforts to prevent and treat HIV or get us closer to ending HIV, it is much better than the alternative we have been facing, which was cutting vital HIV services and jeopardizing people’s lives,” Schmid said in a written statement.

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Congress rejects bid to eliminate HIV funding

by | Mar 21, 2024

“While flat funding does not expand our efforts to prevent and treat HIV or get us closer to ending HIV, it is much better than the alternative we have been facing, which was cutting vital HIV services and jeopardizing people’s lives,” said Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV + Hepatitis Policy Institute.

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Alternative funding programs are simply the rich robbing the poor

by | Mar 21, 2024

According to Carl Schmid, Executive Director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, “Most alternative funding programs are taking advantage of a loophole in the #ACA that allows employer plans to designate certain drugs as ‘non-essential health benefit.’ The federal government through regulation seems to be starting to close that loophole for marketplace and small group plans, but for the larger employer plans, that really are the guilty parties, we need to continue to push the administration to act. Bills are also pending in several states and in the Congress. This is just a start, but to end AFPs, the government must step in stop these nefarious schemes.”

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Advocates cheer HIV funding levels in spending bill

by | Mar 21, 2024

“After House Republicans initially put at risk the nation’s progress in ending HIV, we are relieved that House and Senate congressional negotiators have agreed to maintain funding for domestic HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs,” Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, said in a news release Thursday (March 21).

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Can MISTR Close the Equity Gap in PrEP Uptake?

by | Mar 19, 2024

Said Carl Schmid of HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, which often advocates for the preservation of the 340B program that appears to drive MISTR’s profit model: “I really like MISTR. They are providing a lot of PrEP out there. They make it very easy for people to get, which is what we want, and do it all without having to go into a medical office. And you get no stigma from providers and it’s very sex-positive. It’s really the model to expand PrEP that we’ve been asking for.”

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