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Important Win for Public Health: Supreme Court Upholds ACA Preventive-Care Protections
AVAC welcomes today’s ruling affirming the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s preventive services mandate, including coverage for PrEP at no cost to patients. This decision represents a critical victory for public health, health equity, and the millions of people who rely on preventive services to stay healthy and safe.
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FDA Approves Injectable Lenacapavir for PrEP
AVAC welcomes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of injectable lenacapavir (LEN) for the prevention of HIV as PrEP.
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AVAC Condemns Removal of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
AVAC strongly condemns Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for removing all members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This committee of vaccine experts—with decades of experience in vaccine development, delivery and safety—is responsible for developing the country’s vaccine policies and recommendations for the CDC.
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AVAC Denounces White House Effort to Codify DOGE Cuts to Health, Research and Foreign Assistance
AVAC denounces recent proposals and actions by the US administration that signal a clear intention to defund and eliminate lifesaving global health research, development and delivery programs. If passed by Congress, proposed funding rescissions for the current year’s budget would claw back billions of Congressionally appropriated dollars for critical, life-saving programs.
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AVAC Condemns HHS Mass Layoffs
AVAC condemns the US administration’s ongoing reduction in force of the US Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees 13 agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
Court Decision Reinforces Constitutional Principles, But Does Not Relieve Humanitarian Crisis
A federal district court in Washington, DC, granted in part and denied in part a motion for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought by AVAC and Journalism Development Network (JDN). The motion asked the court to allow humanitarian work to continue while the lawsuit challenging the administration’s foreign-assistance freeze moves forward.
Monday Payment Deadline Is a Step Towards Relief in Foreign Assistance Case
On behalf of plaintiffs AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and Journalism Development Network, Public Citizen attorneys appeared in court today to argue for a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration, to enable humanitarian work to continue while a lawsuit challenging the administration’s attempted termination of foreign assistance moves forward.
Trump Cannot Ignore The Law, SCOTUS Rules
The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to evade compliance with a federal court’s order to lift the freeze on foreign assistance.
As Supreme Court Weighs Halt to Foreign Assistance Funding, Lives Hang in the Balance
The Trump administration’s last-minute plea asking the Supreme Court to override a temporary restraining order requiring the administration to keep its commitment to recipients of foreign assistance funding should be rejected, according to a brief filed today by Public Citizen Litigation Group on behalf of AVAC and Journalism Development Network.
Motion for Civil Contempt Filed in Foreign Aid Freeze Lawsuit
Today, on behalf of AVAC and the Journalism Development Network, Inc., Public Citizen Litigation Group filed a motion for civil contempt in its lawsuit seeking emergency relief from the freeze on foreign assistance funding and orders to stop work.
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