AIDS in Gay America: Findings from Focus Groups
Between January and March 2012, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Black AIDS Institute conducted focus groups in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Dallas with men self-identifying as gay or bisexual to...
View ArticleHealth Reform: Implications for Women’s Access to Coverage and Care
This issue brief reviews how the Affordable Care Act is expected to affect access to care and affordability of health coverage for women. It also explains the provisions in the health reform law...
View ArticleNational Campaign Encourages Young People to “Get Yourself Tested” for STDs,...
NEWS RELEASE April 9, 2012 NEW YORK, N.Y. — The fourth annual GYT: Get Yourself Tested campaign kicks off National STD Awareness Month (April) with new initiatives on-air, online, and on the ground at...
View ArticleResponding to AIDS at Home and Abroad: How the U.S. and Other High Income...
This report examines the United States’ response to HIV over the last 30 years compared to that of other high-income countries. The report compares the U.S. to seven other similarly situated nations –...
View ArticleCoverage of Preventive Services for Adults in Medicaid
This brief highlights data from a survey of coverage of 42 recommended preventive services for adults in Medicaid fee-for-service programs as of October 2010. Medicaid programs must cover preventive...
View ArticlePutting Men’s Health Care Disparities On The Map: Access and Utilization...
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of racial disparities in health access and utilization among men of different races in the United States. It draws findings from the report, Putting Men’s...
View ArticleNational Survey of Teens and Young Adults on HIV/AIDS
This national survey of 15-24 year olds about HIV/AIDS finds that nearly three times as many Black teens and young adults, and twice as many Latino youth, say HIV/AIDS is an issue that concerns them...
View ArticleState Coverage of Preventive Services for Women under Medicaid: Findings from...
Medicaid is a critical source of health coverage and long-term care for millions of low-income women. Federal Medicaid rules require that the program cover many, but not all, important preventive...
View ArticleWomen’s Health Quiz: Health Coverage and the Affordable Care Act
Health insurance coverage is a critical factor in making health care accessible to women—women with health coverage are more likely to obtain needed preventive, primary, and specialty care services....
View ArticleGetting to Zero: Saving Children’s Lives with Vaccines
As one of the cornerstones of global health, widespread immunization through vaccines is critical to reducing child mortality and eradicating polio, two goals endorsed by the international community...
View ArticleWorkplace Wellness Programs, Healthy Behaviors and Health Reform
Many large employers offer financial incentives to their employees to exercise regularly, improve their diets, lose weight and quit smoking. Health reform proposals would write some of these incentives...
View ArticleGlobal HIV Prevention Progress Report Card 2010
The Global HIV Prevention Working Group is a panel of nearly 50 leading public health experts, clinicians, biomedical, and behavioral researchers, and people affected by HIV/AIDS, convened by the Bill...
View ArticleThe Future of U.S. Multilateral Engagement on Global Health: What’s the Right...
This November 16, 2010, webcast features an expert panel exploring the future of U.S. multilateral engagement on global health. It is part of the Foundation's U.S. Global Health Policy: In Focus series.
View ArticleWomen’s Health Care Chartbook: Key Findings From the Kaiser Women’s Health...
The Women's Health Care Chartbook presents findings from a national survey of women ages 18 to 64 and provides a look at the experience of women in the health care system. The chartbook includes data...
View ArticlePulling It Together: Changing the HIV Testing Message
In 2006 the CDC began recommending routine HIV testing in health care settings for everyone between the ages of 13 and 64. Annual testing is recommended for people at highest risk. Our 2011 survey of...
View ArticleAugust Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: The Uninsured and the Health Reform Law
The August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that even though 32 million uninsured Americans will gain health insurance under the ACA, only about half of non-elderly Americans currently without...
View ArticlePreventive Services Covered by Private Health Plans under the Affordable Care...
This fact sheet, Preventive Services Covered by Private Health Plans under the Affordable Care Act, examines which types of preventive services or benefits must be offered to individuals in general and...
View ArticleGrandfathering Explained
The Republican leadership in the House of Representatives recently indicated that it will be seeking to repeal regulations under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that govern the “grandfathered” status of...
View ArticlePulling It Together: Bono, Jon Stewart and the HIV/AIDS Message
One of the most interesting conversations on a health topic happened recently on The Daily Show between Bono and Jon Stewart. Bono told Stewart that we were “at the beginning of the end of the AIDS...
View ArticleInsurance Coverage of Contraceptives
In this post, we answer some of the key questions about the new contraceptive coverage policy generally, and more specifically, how it will be applied to religious organizations.
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