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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Monday, September 28, 2020**

SPONSORED BY THE HEALTHCARE ANCHOR NETWORK

IT IS UNDENIABLE: RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. As members of the
Healthcare Anchor Network and
leaders of 39 healthcare organizations addressing the disproportionate
Black and Brown mortality of the COVID-19 pandemic, we say without
hesitation that

**Black Lives Matter.**
Systemic racism results in generational trauma and poverty, while also
unquestionably causing higher rates of illness and death in Black and
Indigenous communities and communities of color. We stand united as
frontline organizations against racism, injustice, and inaction and
commit to specific steps to
help overcome the healthcare disparities in the communities we serve.
Read the full statement .

AHEAD OF PRINT

COVID-19

After A COVID-19 Vaccine: Collaboration Or Competition?

By Harris Meyer

As COVID-19 vaccines and therapies emerge, critical questions remain
about access and affordability around the world. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

HIV/AIDS

State-Level Discrimination Policies And HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Adoption Efforts In The US

By Stephen Bonett, Steven Meanley, Steven Elsesser, and José
Bauermeister

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug regimen recommended for people
at high risk of getting HIV to prevent them from being infected. Little
research exists on how state-level policies might be related to
differential PrEP uptake across the United States. Stephen Bonett and
coauthors examined HIV criminalization, nondiscrimination laws for
sexual and gender minorities, Medicaid expansion, Ryan White funding,
and sociodemographic characteristics in relation to the PrEP-to-need
ratio, a measure of PrEP uptake. Read More >> 

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

LEGAL & REGULATORY ISSUES

The Right Prescription For Health Data Privacy: Reflections On The
AMA's New Privacy Principles

By Deven McGraw, Dena Mendelsohn, and Mark Savage

In response to new regulations enabling patients to use smartphones and
third-party apps to collect and manage their health information, the
American Medical Association (AMA) released a set of Privacy Principles
more robust than HIPAA's requirements. In this blog post, we highlight
some laudable advances in the AMA's Principles but express some
concerns about the AMA's exemption of covered entities. Read More >>

**A CLOSER LOOK**-Substance Use Disorder

It's the end of National Recovery Month, and substance use disorder
remains a major issue for many Americans. In 2016 Robert Blendon and
coauthors thought that the opioid epidemic was an issue with potential
for rare bipartisan consensus. Now in 2020, have policy makers been able
to effectively work together to address the issue? Reread Blendon and
coauthors' 2016 blog post.

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