Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), who act as middlemen between insurance companies and pharmacies, now dictate the pharmacies patients can use, driving up drug prices and undercutting small community pharmacies in …
HHR Poll: Broad Voter Support for Judge’s Directives on Homelessness in Injunction Against Los Angeles
HHR: New Poll Suggests Popular Support for Judge Carter’s Directives in Injunction Against Los Angeles on Homelessness; also Offers Early Voter Sentiment on L.A. Mayoral Election Matchups Zoom Press Conference: …
COVID-19: AHF Warns Biden Administration, ‘You Are Courting Disaster on Global Vaccines’
WASHINGTON (April 15, 2021) AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today called on U.S. President Joseph R. Biden to support the temporary waiver of patent rights for COVID-19 vaccines as currently proposed …
AHF Welcomes Biden’s Proposed 15% HUD Budget Increase
COVID’s devastating impact on housing and homeless services programs nationwide has stretched state and local budgets and responses from coast to coast Biden’s $68.7 billion FY ’22 budget proposal …
AHF Encourages Biden’s COVID Vaccine Diplomacy Efforts
With the State Department’s appointment of former USAID administrator Gayle Smith as coordinator of the United States’ global COVID response, the Biden administration takes an important step in global effort …
Compton: Community Leaders to Provide Free Food, PPEs, Sat., April 3rd, 12n–3pm
15,000 pounds of groceries and thousands of masks to be distributed FREE to food-insecure individuals and families at event at Compton’s Calvary Baptist Church LOS ANGELES (April 2, 2021) …
$13M Payday for Moderna CEO Shows Cause to Abandon Vaccine Patents
Multimillion dollar compensation highlights tone deaf corporate and personal greed versus disconnect with desperate global need for vaccines, most developed with some level of US taxpayer support According to Fierce …
An International Treaty on Pandemics is Vital, But Success Depends on Compliance, says the Panel for a Global Public Health Convention
LONDON/MIAMI (March 31, 2021) A newly formed Panel for a Global Public Health Convention applauded today the leaders of over 20 countries who jointly issued a call for a new …
No Transparency = No Confidence: Report on COVID-19 Origins Flawed from the Outset, says AHF
AHF calls for a complete re-do of the investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak – an independent scientific inquiry that is free from political interference and one that …
As STD Rates Explode, AHF Calls for Gov’t Funding for Innovative Prevention, Testing and Treatment
Since 2000, sexually transmitted infections in the US have more than doubled while at the same time, federal funding for STI prevention and care fell 40% AHF is calling …
