Washington, DC (December 1, 2025) – A statement from Bruce J. Packet, II, the Executive Director of the American Academy of HIV Medicine: “Today, World AIDS Day, is a moment to honor those we’ve lost, uplift the communities still fighting, and reaffirm the commitment needed to...
WASHINGTON, DC (December 1, 2025): The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM) today announce that AAHIVM has formally endorsed the clinical and educational content of APhA’s Pharmacy-Based HIV Prevention Services Certificate Training Program and Microcredential. The endorsement follows a...
WASHINGTON, DC: The American Academy of HIV Medicine welcomes the second class of the Dr. Dawn K. Smith HIV Prevention Clinical Fellowship. These Fellows demonstrate the passion and dedication to HIV prevention for which Dr. Smith was well-known. The 2025 class includes: Jaimee K. Colvin, MSN, APRN,...
Dear Academy community, As many of you will know by now, the House has passed the Senate version of HR.1, the budget reconciliation bill, which now goes to the President to be signed into law. This outcome is certainly not what we had hoped for as advocates,...
The Academy has reviewed a draft of the Trump Administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that was recently leaked to media outlets. The proposed budget includes extensive cuts to our nation’s public health infrastructure and explicitly...
Eliminating Essential Public Health Services Harms All Americans On Tuesday, April 1, the Trump Administration began sweeping cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which resulted in the dismantling of a range of divisions and agencies within the HHS. The week prior,...
Washington, D.C.: The American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM) announces the second year of the Dr. Dawn K. Smith HIV Prevention Clinical Fellowship, funded by a grant through ViiV Healthcare. The fellowship provides comprehensive HIV prevention training for clinicians who do not practice HIV medicine...
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Academy of HIV Medicine, in partnership with Vindico Medical Education, have launched a new online course for providers that addresses the urgency of increasing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and the need for equitable preventive care. This new course is...
On Monday, January 20, 2025, the Trump White House issued numerous executive orders, and several affect those in the LGBTQIA community. One executive order rescinds many of the orders issued during the Biden presidency, including Executive Order 13988, Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis...
Technology used to screen for social needs among people with HIV. WASHINGTON, DC: The American Academy of HIV Medicine and the Institute for Technology in Health Care have awarded the 2024 Cesar Augusto Caceres Award for Innovations in HIV Prevention and Care to Jessica Ridgway,...