TAEP and the Health Law & Policy Clinic of Harvard Law School are evaluating and documenting access to care and services in states across the country, and helping communities grow their advocacy to improve access even in these challenging economic times. Click here to find SHARP reports and related materials.

Tracking Health Care Reform [click here for a summary of the latest developments]

Ensuring Passage of a Comprehensive Health Care Reform Bill in 2010

·      HIV Health Care Access Working Group's sign-on letter to members of the Senate urging passage of comprehensive health care reform bill (Feb. 4, 2010)

·      HIV Health Care Access Working Group's sign-on letter to members of the House of Representatives urging passage of comprehensive health care reform bill (Feb. 4, 2010)

Negotiations to Combine Senate Bill HR 3590 and House Bill 3962 (underway in Congress 2010)

·      HIV Health Care Access Working Group's abbreviated comments to the Obama Administration and Congressional leadership on priorities for a unified national health care reform bill (Jan. 14, 2010)

·      HIV Health Care Access Working Group's comments to Congressional leadership on priorities for a unified national health care reform bill (Dec. 30, 2009)

Senate bill HR 3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (passed by Senate on Dec. 24, 2009)

·      Manager's Amendment to H.R. 3590 (released Dec. 19, 2009)

·      HIV Health Care Access Working Group's comments to the Senate on H.R. 3590 (Nov. 30, 2009)

·      TAEP's analysis of Senate bill H.R. 3590 

·      At-a-glance index of major provisions of interest in H.R. 3590 

·      H.R. 3590 (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act)

House bill HR 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act (passed by House on November 7, 2009)

·      HIV Health Care Access Working Group's comments to the House of Representatives on HR 3962 (November 6, 2009)

·      TAEP's analysis of House bill H.R. 3962

·      At-a-glance index of major provisions of interest in H.R. 3962 

·      H.R. 3962 (Affordable Health Care for America Act)

Background Information on Health Care Reform & HIV/AIDS

·      Fact sheet on ETHA and Medicaid in national health care reform (May 7, 2009)

·         Health Care Reform Platform [detailed]

·         Health Care Reform Platform [summary]

TAEP in the Community

TAEP Director Robert Greenwald presented an update on the 2009 Ryan White Act reauthorization, the national health care reform debate, and TAEP's work to increase access to health care and services before the Louisiana Commission on HIV/AIDS and Hep-C, January 21, 2010.

Robert Greenwald presented an update on the status of the national health care reform debate at the NAS Community Consultation Meeting on HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment, December 10-11 2009.

Robert Greenwald's health care reform presentations at the 2009 US Conference on AIDS in San Francisco, Oct. 28-31:

·         Overview of the Major Health Care Reform Bills

·         The Future of Health Care: Health Care Reform and Beyond (with Laura Hanen, Director of Government Relations, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors)

Robert Greenwald presented an in-depth health care reform update at the August 31, 2009 meeting of the CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and Treatment.

Robert Greenwald presented a health care reform update at the CAEAR Coalition (Community Advocates for Emergency AIDS Relief) summer meeting in Washington, DC on June 15, 2009.

Robert Greenwald and Laura Hanen (Director of Government Relations, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors), co-chairs of the HIV Health Care Access Working Group, presented the Working Group's HIV Health Care Access & Advocacy Agenda at the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP) quarterly meeting on May 21, 2009 in Washington, DC.

Robert Greenwald presented TAEP's HIV Health Care Access & Advocacy Agenda to positive women around the nation on the Positive Women's Network's grassroots conference call on Women, HIV and Health Care Reform on May 8, 2009.

Robert Greenwald presented “AIDS Watch 2009: Our Health Care Access Advocacy Agenda” at AIDS Watch 2009.  The Treatment Access Expansion Project and the National Association of People with AIDS co-sponsored AIDS Watch, which took place in Washington DC on April 27-29.  This year’s AIDS Watch featured a Congressional Briefing on the Early Treatment for HIV Act (ETHA) and Health Care Reform. Lead House sponsors of ETHA, Representatives Eliot Engel and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, also attended and spoke at the briefing.

Robert Greenwald presented on “The Future of Health Care” at the Annual Community Partnership Meeting of the National AIDS Fund.  The meeting’s theme was “Stronger Together: Sharing Strategies to Manage Change” and tool place in El Paso, Texas, on April 22-25, 2009.

In The Headlines

·         Unified health care reform bill introduced in Senate. [read more]

·         House passes sweeping health care reform bill, 220-215. [read more]

·         President Obama signs extension of Ryan White CARE Act, end to HIV travel ban. [read more]

·         Early Treatment of HIV/AIDS Act ("ETHA") introduced in House and Senate. [read more]

TAEP's 2009 Agenda

To further our goal of maximizing access to increasingly effective HIV care and treatment, we focus on opportunities in four areas:

·         Increased testing

·         Reduction/Elimination of Late Diagnosis

·         Promotion of Early Access to Care

·         Reduction of Stigma

Read more about TAEP's work.