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The Spencer Cox Center for Health Opens in NYC

It serves more than 8,000 people in three Manhattan locations. 

Published
13 June 2013
From
Poz magazine news
Delivery of care
CALIFORNIA: HIV Patients Fight Mail-Order Drug Program

An anonymous Californian has filed a class action suit against United Healthcare Insurance, mail order pharmacy OptumRx, Pacificare Life and Health Insurance, and UnitedHealth Group for forcing HIV-infected patients to obtain HIV medications through the mail. “John Doe” claimed that receiving HIV drugs via mail violated his privacy since HIV medications that arrived in refrigerated containers would alert co-workers or neighbors to his infection.

Published
13 June 2013
From
Courthouse News Service
Delivery of care
Campaign approach increases enrolment of pregnant women on ART in South Africa

A targeted campaign among health workers, using quality-improvement (QI) health system methods, can significantly improve access to ART for pregnant women living with HIV in resource-poor settings, a

Published
04 June 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
US: Blue Cross To Allow HIV/AIDS Patients to "Opt-Out" of Mandatory Mail-Order Rx Drug Program

Anthem Blue Cross patients with HIV/AIDS may "opt-out" of a program that would have required them to obtain their medications by mail order under a settlement announced today by Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLC. Blue Cross members who opt-out can continue purchasing such medications at a retail pharmacy.

Published
24 May 2013
From
PR Newswire (press release)
Outcomes and prognosis
Expanded access to HIV treatment achieves big falls in mortality rates in China

Mortality rates fell sharply among people receiving antiretroviral therapy in China between 2003 and 2009, investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency

Published
23 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Finance and funding
US HIV Care Groups Fear Post-ACA Future

Community-based providers of HIV care and social services are expressing fear they could disappear as the health system becomes more integrated and their funding sources potentially dry up.

Published
22 May 2013
From
MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
PrEP
Majority of Italian HIV specialists would prescribe PrEP

Seventy per cent of Italian HIV specialists who answered an online survey would prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to people in their care who ask for it, at least

Published
21 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Retention and linkage to care
Case workers can re-engage a high proportion of HIV-positive people lost to long-term care

Caseworkers helped 50% of HIV-positive people in New York City who had dropped out of care re-engage with HIV medical care, investigators report in the online edition

Published
20 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Retention and linkage to care
People more likely to keep HIV clinic appointments if they believe their care providers know them as a person

People who believe their care providers know them as a person are more likely to keep their HIV clinic appointments, research conducted in the United States and

Published
13 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Access to medicines and treatment
Zimbabwe: ARVs Versus Migration

Rutendo is a cross-border trader and mother of three who has resorted to finding part-time employment as a domestic worker in neighbouring countries. Her main worry is when she fails to come back home on time to collect her ARVs.

Published
25 April 2013
From
allAfrica.com
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