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Leaked HHS Budget: Critical HIV Services Face Deep Cuts
A leaked Trump-HHS budget shows plans to gut HIV services, slash mental health funding, and dismantle public health infrastructure—undoing decades of…
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Travis Joseph Manint
System Failure: Inside the Collapse of HIV Data Protections
A sweeping purge of federal IT staff and unchecked data grabs are unraveling HIV privacy protections—threatening care, safety, and public trust.
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Travis Joseph Manint
Mixed Signals: Trump's Drug Policy Undermines Its Own Goals
What do you get when you combine performative punishment, gutted health agencies, and a wellness farm fantasy?
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Travis Joseph Manint
A System Under Siege
As Trump and RFK Jr. dismantle public health infrastructure, states cancel vaccine outreach and HHS faces mass layoffs. Here’s what it means.
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Travis Joseph Manint
PDAB Chicanery
Across the U.S., PDABs are undermining transparency and risking patient access to medications. Here's why the system is breaking—and who’s paying.
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Travis Joseph Manint

March 2025

HIV Long-Acting Injectables Face Policy Hurdles After CROI 2025
One shot a year could transform HIV care.
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Travis Joseph Manint
Patients Still at Risk: The State of Copay Accumulator Adjustment Policies in 2025
Copay accumulator policies make patients pay twice. It's 2025, and insurers are still profiting while patients go broke.
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Travis Joseph Manint
America's Vaccination Problem
Political interference in public health is fueling vaccine hesitancy, outbreaks, and policy failures—at the cost of children's lives.
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Travis Joseph Manint

February 2025

Influenza, and Bird Flu, and TB, Oh My!
The US faces its worst flu season in 15 years amid bird flu spread and unprecedented disruptions to federal public health systems.
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Travis Joseph Manint
The Strategic Dismantling of Health Equity Research
New funding rules censor research on health disparities, making systemic inequities unprovable—and easier to ignore.
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Travis Joseph Manint
Flying Blind: Public Health Without Population Data Following CDC Data Removal
Federal health agencies have removed thousands of public health datasets, creating a public health crisis by Trump Admin Executive Order.
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Travis Joseph Manint

January 2025

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