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 TAEP (DC Office)
 8401 Colesville Rd.
 Suite 505
 Silver Spring, MD
     20910
 Tel  240-247-1019
 Fax 240-247-0574
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TAEP (MA Office)
 32 Sheridan St.
 Boston, MA 02130
 Tel  617.390.2584
 Fax 617.390.2799
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Message from TAEP Director Robert Greenwald

2009 promises to be a year of positive policy change in the HIV/AIDS arena. Congressional leaders and the Administration appear poised to take on major national health care reform, presenting a unique and invaluable opportunity for increasing health insurance options and improving access to care. TAEP is actively working to inform legislation in Congress this session that will improve affordable access to comprehensive, quality care and/or increase funding for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and research.
 


June 18, 2009 :: Updated Action Alert!

Tell your Senators & Representatives in Congress:
1 - Health care reform must include expanded access to Medicaid for all low-income people!
2 - Passing ETHA is a critical part of health care reform for people living with HIV/AIDS!

3 - Health care reform must include a public insurance option to ensure access to meaningful care for people with HIV/AIDS!


[find your Senators' and Representatives' contact information]


Tracking Health Care Reform

·      TAEP's analysis of Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee's draft health care reform bill (Affordable Health Choices Act)

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

·        HIV Health Care Access Working Group's response to the Senate Finance Committee's proposals for health care reform (May 22, 2009)

·      TAEP's analysis of S.1099, Coburn health care reform bill (introduced in Senate on May 20, 2009)

·        HIV Health Care Access Working Group's comments to the Senate Finance Committee regarding health care delivery systems (April 21, 2009)

·      TAEP's analysis of S.703, Sanders health care reform bill (introduced in Senate on March 25, 2009)

·         TAEP's analysis of S.391, Wyden health care reform bill (introduced in Senate on February 6, 2009)

·         TAEP's analysis of Baucus plan for health care reform (unveiled on November 12, 2008)

·         Health Care Reform Platform [detailed]

·         Health Care Reform Platform [summary]

·         Health Care Reform Plan Comparison Chart

 


TAEP in the Community

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

·         Bill to establish a public health insurance option introduced in Senate. [read more]

·         House leaders outline health care reform priorities. [read more]

·         Bills to help close the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap introduced in the House and Senate. [read more]

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

·         Senate leaders introduce health care reform plans that could change the way low income individuals living with HIV/AIDS access care … [read more]

·         Bill to end the 2-year waiting period for Medicare coverage introduced in Congress ... [read more]

·         Stimulus Package helps preserve access to care through Medicaid …[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.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

















 


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