Congress Extends SCHIP and
Abstinence-Only Program
Following passage in the Senate on December 18 and the House
the following day, Congress sent President Bush a Medicare bill
(S
2499) that would delay for six months a Medicare physician
fee cut set to take effect on January 1, 2008 and also extend
the current authorization for the State Children's Health
Insurance Program (SCHIP) through March 2009.
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CDC Updating HIV Incidence
Estimates
Following recent media reports speculating that the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) new estimates of
domestic HIV incidence will show an increase of new infections
from 40,000 each year to close to 60,000, CDC issued a statement
on December 3 clarifying that while it is developing an improved
system to estimate the number of new HIV infections in the U.S.,
the estimates are not yet final.
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Global Pediatric HIV/AIDS
Bill Introduced in Congress
Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) introduced
the "Global Pediatric HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Act" (S
2472) on December 13.
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AIDS Alliance Updating Part
D (Title IV) Directory, Please Send Changes
AIDS Alliance currently is updating its Part D (Title IV)
Directory. The current AIDS
Alliance Part D (Title IV) Directory is online for your
review. If your project's contact information has changed,
or is about to, please email
AIDS Alliance with any staff, address, phone, or email
changes by January 4.
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