The Big IDea is an IDSA and HIVMA initiative that seizes the opportunity IDWeek 2019 in Washington DC will give infectious disease and HIV clinicians, scientists and public health practitioners from around the country to educate Members of Congress on federal funding and policy issues important to their patients, their clinical practice and research, and to public health.

The Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services Subcommittee’s hearing on the continuing Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo brought the unprecedented challenges posed by the current outbreak, as well as the responses needed before policymakers Thursday.

The White House budget proposal for 2020 recommends increases to the domestic HIV programs at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration and Indian Health Services that will be essential to keeping the administration’s promise of ending our nation’s HIV epidemic in the next decade.