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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHF Sues FL Health Dept. to Block Emergency Rule Cutting HIV Drug Access for Thousands...

KERNERSVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mission Mobile Medical Group today announced that Mollie Williams, DrPH, MPH, has been appointed to lead the National Mobile Health Policy Center, a new initiative dedicated to advancing policies and practices that enable mobile health programs to deliver care to every corner of the country. The Policy Center will serve as a hub for evidence and insight, translating on-the-ground experience from mobile health programs into policy priorities that expand acces...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This morning AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) filed an administrative action to challenge the validity of the emergency rule enacted by the Florida Department of Health, prior to a hearing scheduled yesterday morning with State Administrative Law Judge W. David Watkins. The Florida Department of Health has invoked emergency powers designed to protect public health in order to cut 16,000 Floridians off their HIV medications. On the eve of a court hearing chall...

OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Health care workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees will hold a rally outside Ontario PC MPP George Darouze’s office to protest funding cuts by the provincial government. The government’s fall economic statement shows a plan to cut hospital funding by 10 per cent in real terms over three years by 2027-28 as projected spending fails to cover the six per cent annual cost inflation for hospitals, says CUPE. The consequences of fiscal restraint are alr...

OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Health care workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees will hold a rally outside Ontario PC MPP George Darouze’s office to protest funding cuts by the provincial government. The government’s fall economic statement shows a plan to cut hospital funding by 10 per cent in real terms over three years by 2027-28 as projected spending fails to cover the six per cent annual cost inflation for hospitals, says CUPE. The consequences of fiscal restraint are alr...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An Administrative Law Judge today ordered an emergency hearing for Wednesday, February 25, in AIDS Healthcare Foundation's legal challenge to the Florida Department of Health's plan to slash eligibility for the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program, known as ADAP. Beginning March 1, the Department plans to cut the qualifying income for the program from roughly $62,600 to $21,000 for an individual, dropping thousands of Floridians living with HIV from the cover...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, 42 organizations sent a letter to lawmakers urging Congress to eliminate the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation....

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advocates Rally at Florida Capitol to Protect Lifesaving HIV Drug Access for Thousands...

OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As hospitals cut hundreds of jobs and eliminate vacant positions amidst budgetary constraints imposed by the Conservative government, the largest health care union in Ontario is warning about longer wait-times, rushed care, preventable mistakes, and overcrowded hallways. CUPE released a new research report, “Driven to the brink: projected cuts to intensify Ontario’s hospital crisis,” which contrasts the additional resources required to simply maintain existing service l...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) célèbre la Journée internationale du préservatif (ICD) le 13 février avec un message simple : « Just Use It! », afin de remettre les préservatifs, l’un des outils les plus efficaces et les plus rentables dans la prévention du VIH et des IST, sous les feux de la rampe. Les commémorations organisées dans près de 50 pays par les équipes nationales d’AHF allieront divertissement, créativité et éducation à la distribution gratuite de pré...