HIV Awareness

Carlos del Rio, MD

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March 28, 2024
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VIDEO: Expanding accessibility to HIV treatment, care may help address disparities

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The most important thing is we need to make treatment and care available and accessible for those who don't have health insurance. Obviously, expanding Medicaid will be something very important? We need to make sure that people get treatment and prevention services irrespective of their ability to pay. Ryan White does that a little bit and has been incredibly helpful, but we need something similar to Ryan White for prevention and we need to expand what a program like Ryan White does. When you expand Medicaid, you're able to achieve that.