Ryan NicolJune 18, 2019
4min457
“We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity."
Tag: HIVUniversal Orlando Resort
Ryan NicolJune 18, 2019
Scott PowersApril 17, 2019
3min1014
Orange County is set to get $9.8 million overall.
Ryan NicolMarch 6, 2019
4min315
A bipartisan companion bill has been filed in the House.
Jacob OglesFebruary 25, 2019
7min903
Equality Florida applauds legislation catching law up to modern science.
Guest AuthorFebruary 13, 2019
5min476
"This is absurd. And frankly, it’s just plain wrong."
Scott PowersJanuary 25, 2019
4min318
Metro Orlando is home to about 10,000 to 12,000 people living with HIV or AIDS.
Ryan NicolJanuary 7, 20196min462
A bipartisan push is behind legislation that would allow for the expansion of Miami-Dade County’s needle exchange program throughout the rest of the state. The bill (HB 171) for the 2019 Legislative Session was filed Monday by state Reps. Shevrin Jones, a West Park Democrat, and Rene “Coach P” Plasencia, an Orlando Republican. In 2016, the Infectious […]
Guest AuthorAugust 20, 2018
5min232
Many efforts are underway to improve America’s health care system, but there is one issue affecting Florida’s most vulnerable patients that has yet to receive the attention it deserves. Floridians living with chronic and rare diseases are being denied lifesaving care simply because they benefit from charity aid — and this is all the result […]
Christine Jordan SextonMarch 30, 20185min349
The largest nonprofit AIDS health care provider in the nation is at risk of being blocked out of South Florida’s Medicaid market. AIDS Healthcare Foundation attorneys filed a written protest and requested a hearing after its managed-care division was not among the health plans selected to negotiate with state Medicaid officials to continue providing care […]
Guest AuthorJanuary 16, 2018
7min600
Since the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, public health experts have advocated for syringe exchange programs as one the most powerful tools to reduce the spread of viral infections — including HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C — by removing contaminated syringes from circulation. They have documented time and again that […]