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• HIVMA Board Member Appointed to Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS

Council will play key role in the development of a new National HIV/AIDS Strategy

Statement from HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) Chair Michael S. Saag, MD, FIDSA

The IDSA Education and Research Foundation (ERF)/National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) Joint Research Awards provide support for promising young researchers who may not otherwise find funding.  Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 awards.

Helpful links to global relief and response resources for the earthquake in Haiti.

Nearly 1,500 leading physicians, nurses, and public health experts have joined together to urge Ugandan political leaders to reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill under consideration in that country’s Parliament.

Joined by nearly 140 organizations, HIVMA urges Congressional leaders to raise Medicaid primary care payments to Medicare levels.

Comparison of the House and Senate health care reform bills and assessment of how they stack up with respect to HIVMA’s policy priorities.

HIVMA weighs in with priorities for House/Senate negotiations on the final health care reform bill.

Statement from HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) Chair Michael S. Saag, MD, FIDSA