Advocacy

HealthHIV works to put health first and engage leaders at all levels of government to:

⦁ Improve health disparities
⦁ Treat the medically underserved
⦁ Understand the changing primary care setting
⦁ Advance chronic disease management
⦁ Create medical homes in HIV
⦁ Redefine how HIV fits into a broader health care debate

HealthHIV brings a re-energized approach to addressing the advocacy agenda. Please join us on Facebook and sign-up to receive HealthHIV email updates.

CMS Decision on PrEP Coverage Expansion

In an announcement by CMS, Medicare Part B will now cover PrEP drugs, which were previously covered under Medicare Part D and often came with deductibles and coinsurance or co-pays. Under the new Medicare Part B coverage, beneficiaries will no longer have co-pays or deductibles for PrEP. Links to online resources are also provided below:

The national resource center for care coordination and pozitively aging with HIV

The National Resource Center from HealthHIV builds the capacity of HIV and primary care providers to coordinate care for people living and aging with HIV across a lifetime. This program enhances provider and patient knowledge related to the experiences of PWH over 50 and the comanagement of conditions associated with aging with HIV through data collection and medical education.