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Recent Release: NASTAD, Kaiser Family Foundation Report Provides 'Inventory' Of HIV Prevention Efforts In The U.S.
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors and the Kaiser Family Foundation released a report that "provides the first, comprehensive inventory of HIV prevention efforts at the state and local levels" and is based on a survey of 65 state health departments, including all state and territorial jurisdictions and six U.S. cities. The report "is intended to offer a baseline picture of how HIV prevention is delivered across the country. ... " ("The National HIV Prevention Inventory: The State of HIV Prevention Across the U.S.," July 2009).

Study Rewrites Textbook On Key Genetic Phenomenon
Because females carry two copies of the X chromosome to males" one X and one Y, they harbor a potentially toxic double dose of the over 1000 genes that reside on the X chromosome.
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For Many Young Adults, No Health Insurance, No Regular Doctor, USA
Approximately 5 million adults age 19 to 23 in the United States had no health insurance in 2006 for the entire year and 30 percent of them said they didn"t think it was worth the cost, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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President Obama Joins In Chorus Of Complaints About CBO Figures

President Barack Obama joins the chorus of Democrats who criticize Congressional Budget Office numbers and claim that their analyses estimates aren"t fair. The criticism comes after the agency provided $1 to $1.6 trillion estimates for two of the Democrats" draft health care reform bills. ABC News reports on the question of whether President Obama will dismiss whatever price tag the CBO eventually attaches to the final version of the congressional Democrats" proposal: "The reason politicians and their staffers are wondering is because for the first time, last night the president expressed frustration at the way CBO - long regarded as a fair and non-partisan arbiter - makes its analyses." Some Democrats, such as Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., expressed frustration that the CBO doesn"t factor in cost-savings from prevention programs or their other health benefits. Meanwhile, President Obama also talked about the CBO estimates and "promised that "about two-thirds of the cost would be covered by reallocating dollars that are already in the health care system -- taxpayers are already paying for it -- but it"s not going to stuff that"s making you healthier." Roughly a third more "will come from new revenue" - a tax increase on wealthier individuals." He also noted that the hard figures don"t "count all the savings that may come from prevention, may come from eliminating all the paperwork and bureaucracy because we"ve put forward health IT, it doesn"t come from the evidence-based care and changes in reimbursement that I"ve already discussed about. ... The CBO, which sort of polices what all various programs cost, they"re not willing to credit us with those savings" (Tapper, 6/25). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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