IDSA and HIVMA echo the concern expressed by UNAIDS about the use of racist and homophobic language regarding the current monkeypox outbreak.

In his budget plan for fiscal year 2023, President Joe Biden calls for important investments to grow the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative and to create a National PrEP Program that will dramatically increase access to PrEP and reach many more of the 1.2 million people who could benefit from it.

HIVMA is deeply concerned by the harm that the “Parental Rights in Education” bill passed today by the Florida legislature will have on the health and quality of life of LGBTQ youth and families if signed into law.

IDSA and HIVMA strongly urge Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop government interference in the patient-health care provider relationship by withdrawing the order released last week that classifies medical treatment provided to transgender youth as “child abuse.”

On this World AIDS Day, HIVMA welcomes the release of the Biden-Harris Administration’s 2022 National HIV/AIDS Strategy, which will provide an important road map for ending HIV as an epidemic in the United States.

IDSA and HIVMA applaud the bipartisan introduction of the Bolstering Infectious Outbreaks (BIO) Preparedness Workforce Act by Reps. Lori Trahan (D-MA) and David McKinley (R-WV), H.R. 5602, and its inclusion in an Oct. 26 Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing. 

New board members affirm commitment to work to address health disparities and end the HIV epidemic. The HIV Medicine Association is pleased to announce the election of a vice chair and three new members to its Board of Directors and to name Marwan S. Haddad, MD, MPH, as its new chair.

IDSA and its HIVMA support the Biden Administration’s call for new global commitments to control the COVID-19 pandemic and applaud the Administration’s initial steps of donating vaccine doses and making financial contributions to COVAX, the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative.