Health care access
Policy positions
HIVMA gives HIV clinicians and researchers a voice in the federal policymaking process. All standing policy positions have been approved by the IDSA and HIVMA Boards of Directors.
Ending HIV as an epidemic
Principles for Ending HIV as an Epidemic in the United States: A Policy Paper of IDSA and HIVMA outlines the policy reforms needed to end HIV as an epidemic and includes HIVMA’s policy recommendations for advancing them.
Health care access
Financing Mechanisms for Street Medicine and Other Low-Barrier Models of Care (February 2025)
This brief provides guidance for expanding access to services for people with HIV experiencing homeless by helping providers develop and sustainably fund low-barrier clinics, with a focus on street medicine programs.
Innovative HIV care and treatment models
A Systems Level Approach to Innovative HIV Care and Treatment Models in the United States: Street Medicine and Differentiated Service Delivery outlines new ways of delivering health care to individuals not well served by traditional health care systems and policy recommendations for implementing them. Learn more in the Science Speaks blog series that discusses the need for change and the role of providers and community health workers.
Learn more on the Science Speaks blog
More resources
In “To End the HIV Epidemic, We Need to Reach Unsheltered Homeless Populations,” an October 2023 article in Health Affairs Forefront, HIVMA members Wendy Armstrong, MD, FIDSA, Tyler Evans, MD, FIDSA, and Hansel Emory Tookes III, MD, MPH, called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement policies to facilitate implementation of street medicine programs to reduce HIV disparities among people who are unhoused.