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Statement on upcoming Supreme Court oral arguments on preventive services coverage requirement case

Apr 16, 2025

We urge the Court to uphold the preventive services requirement, as supported by the Trump administration. President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. are prioritizing prevention as a key component of making our country healthier. Preventing chronic infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis through testing and PrEP covered by private insurance is critically vital, especially now that the federal government is seeking to reduce spending. Without the coverage requirement, people at risk of HIV and hepatitis will likely forgo accessing the services or depend more on government programs for their testing and PrEP. However, we are not adequately addressing the needs of the uninsured today, and, given current budget constraints, which are bound to get worse, we will certainly not be able to afford the necessary preventive services for the insured without the coverage requirement. If we are to prevent infectious disease and other health conditions, the Court has no choice but to uphold access to these necessary preventive services.

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Statement on Decimation of CDC HIV Prevention Staff and Other Key Programs

Apr 1, 2025

In a matter of just a couple days, we are losing our nation’s ability to prevent HIV. The expertise of the staff, along with their decades of leadership, has now been destroyed and cannot be replaced. We will feel the impacts of these decisions for years to come and it will certainly, sadly, translate into an increase in new HIV infections and higher medical costs.

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Statement on elimination of HHS Office of Infectious Diseases & HIV Policy & Other HHS staff cuts

Mar 28, 2025

Today the Trump administration continued its decimation of our nation’s response not only to HIV, but to hepatitis and STIs. While we wait to learn specifics on how many staff who support CDC’s HIV and hepatitis prevention programs will be eliminated, all staff at the government’s central coordinating office which develops strategic plans, coordinates agency actions, collects and communicates vital data, administers the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative, and oversees the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, have been fired.

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Statement on reported cuts & changes to CDC HIV prevention programs

Mar 19, 2025

We cannot end HIV without a fully functioning and sufficiently funded HIV prevention program. If the administration has new ideas on how to conduct HIV prevention, including testing, surveillance, education and PrEP outreach, we are more than willing to discuss them. While we are making progress in reducing the number of new cases, and saving billions of dollars in the process, we must do better—32,000 new infections each year is far too many. But we cannot unilaterally cut the funding that Congress has appropriated and that states, local governments, and community-based organizations rely on to carry out their public health responsibilities to address HIV and other infectious diseases. Without those federal resources, the number of new cases and the lifetime costs of treating them will just, sadly, multiply.

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20 HIV & hepatitis organizations urge the U.S. Supreme Court to protect preventive services coverage

Feb 25, 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,” said Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute. “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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