Where patients shape policy.

Community Access National Network

CANN is a national nonprofit healthcare access policy institute. We work where policy meets patients — analyzing drug pricing programs, state legislation, and the structures that decide who can afford care. Our work is grounded in three decades of patient and provider experience advocating for people living with HIV/AIDS, HCV, and substance use disorder, paired with rigorous policy analysis.

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340B Policy Center

Patient-centered analysis of the 340B Drug Pricing Program — how it's used, where it's drifting from its legislative intent, and what states are doing about it.

PDAB Policy Center

State Prescription Drug Affordability Boards are setting drug prices and reimbursement rates with patients fighting to be heard. We track who's impacted and how.

Public Statements

Where CANN goes on the record. Congressional testimony, regulatory comments, and press releases on federal and state policy as it moves.

The Latest from CANN

Our latest analysis on developing health care policy issues

A close-up of an open hand holding multiple HIV medication pills of different shapes, sizes, and colors.

A New Single-Tablet Option for HIV's "Forgotten Population" Could Change Lives. Will Policy Let It?

New Phase 3 data show a single-tablet regimen of bictegravir/lenacapavir could finally bring one-pill simplicity to long-term HIV survivors locked into complex regimens by decades of drug resistance. The science is closing the treatment gap. Will our policy systems do the same?

HIV/AIDS Policy

Travis Roppolo

Mar 309 min read

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The False Economy of Rationing Life

States are rationing HIV medications through prior auth and formulary cuts to solve ADAP budget crises — a strategy that costs more, drives resistance, and concentrates harm on the most vulnerable.

Health Equity & Community Care

Travis Roppolo

Mar 235 min read

The Quiet Pay Cut: Rising Health Insurance Costs Are Eroding Worker Compensation

Rising employer premiums averaging 9.5% erode wages, forcing workers to delay care.

Healthcare Access & Affordability

Travis Roppolo

Mar 157 min read

Who We Are

A healthcare access policy institute grounded in lived experience. Meet the team and see how we work.

Our Partners

The patient advocacy organizations, community health centers, and industry partners that shape and amplify CANN's policy work.

Our Coalitions

Three policy coalitions CANN convenes — NAWG (HIV/AIDS, since 1996), HEAL (viral hepatitis, since 2012), and the Industry Advisory Group.

HIV/AIDS

National ADAP Working Group (NAWG) strengthen access to essential treatment and support services by sharing policy insights, best practices, and coordinated advocacy across programs and partners.

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Viral Hepatitis

Advances education, leadership, and policy engagement to improve prevention, treatment access, and support services through collaboration with community advocates and national partners.

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HIV/HCV Co-infection

Provides a centralized information portal with updates, research insights, and policy context to help stakeholders better understand and respond to co-infection care and access challenges.

Where patients shape policy.

Community Access National Network

The Latest from CANN

A New Single-Tablet Option for HIV's "Forgotten Population" Could Change Lives. Will Policy Let It?

The False Economy of Rationing Life

The Quiet Pay Cut: Rising Health Insurance Costs Are Eroding Worker Compensation

HIV/AIDS

Learn more about NAWG

Viral Hepatitis

Learn more about HEAL

HIV/HCV Co-infection

Learn more about WATCH

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