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HIV organizations sounding the alarm as PrEP coverage case reaches SCOTUS

by | Mar 7, 2025

“Obviously the Biden admin defended the preventative services. We were not sure if the Trump administration would defend the coverage in the ACA, and it would have been bad if they did not, but they did and it was very, very, very critical to the case and how the Supreme Court will address it,” added Schmid. “That was a big deal, and so we talked before about PrEP and religious [freedom] but that’s no longer the issue … the Trump administration said the secretary has power over the task force members; they can make appointments, fire them, decide whether insurers should cover the preventive services that they recommend. We may not like that but they seem to be saying, ‘We have power, the secretary has power, so it’s OK.’ That may save the preventive services at the Supreme Court, that brief.”

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HIV and hepatitis groups ask Supreme Court to protect PrEP, testing

by | Mar 4, 2025

“Coverage of no-cost preventive services, including HIV and hepatitis testing, along with PrEP, now rests with the highest court in the land. In our brief we laid out the critical role testing plays in linking people to life-saving medications and, in the case of hepatitis C, curative treatment, along with the importance of people knowing if they have an infectious disease. We describe the growing importance of PrEP in preventing HIV, including long-acting PrEP drugs which are almost 100 percent effective in preventing HIV,” Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, said in a statement. “We emphasize that coverage of preventive services by private insurers will help end HIV and hepatitis and losing them would certainly damage the public health of our country and increase medical costs.”

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Twenty nonprofit HIV and hepatitis organizations asked the the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s preventive services requirement

by | Feb 26, 2025

Twenty nonprofit HIV and hepatitis organizations asked the the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s preventive services requirement, which mandates most health insurance plans to cover PrEP, a drug that prevents HIV, at no cost. The court is reviewing a case filed two years ago by several Christian-owned businesses in Texas that challenged the ACA’s preventive services requirement, arguing that the PrEP coverage requirement violated their religious rights. The organizations argued that removing access to evidence-based preventive measures will have a “devastating impact, not only on those at risk for acquiring HIV and hepatitis, but also the population at large.” The court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in April. The nonprofits include national and state groups from around the country that promote access to and carry out HIV and hepatitis testing along with PrEP for the prevention of HIV.

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SCOTUS urged to uphold ACA preventive coverage mandate

by | Feb 25, 2025

The brief filed on behalf of the HIV + Policy Institute and 19 other organizations says USPSTF recommendations “have been essential to the prevention of HIV, hepatitis and many other infectious and chronic diseases for millions of Americans. After the passage of the Affordable Care Act (‘ACA’), the Task Force’s recommendations became a critical first step in ensuring effective interventions are covered by health insurance. A wholesale invalidation of the coverage requirement for Task Force’s recommendations would strike a critical, unnecessary and costly blow to the battle to end HIV, hepatitis and other infectious diseases,” the brief argues.

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