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The Last Clean Snapshot: What the CDC's 2024 HIV Data Tells Us About What Comes Next
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its National HIV Prevention and Care Objectives: 2026 Update on May 18, 2026, presenting the most recent national picture of the U.S. HIV...

Travis Roppolo
May 255 min read
When the Target Is SSRIs, the Risk Is the Six Protected Classes
On May 4, 2026, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. closed a daylong Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Institute summit on mental health and overmedicalization by announcing a federal initiative...

Travis Roppolo
May 186 min read
When Oversight Fails: Iowa's $22 Million Contract Pharmacy Scandal and the Structural Fragility of ADAP Financing
On March 6, 2026, the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services filed a nine-page complaint in Polk County District Court alleging that NuCara Specialty Pharmacy failed to remit more than $22...

Travis Roppolo
May 47 min read


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?

Travis Roppolo
Mar 309 min read


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.

Travis Roppolo
Mar 235 min read


ADAPs Work. Federal Policy Is Defunding Them on Accident.
ADAPs achieve 87% viral suppression but face funding crisis as multiple policies erode 340B rebates.

Travis Roppolo
Mar 16 min read


Florida's ADAP Cuts Put 16,000 People Living with HIV at Risk
Florida ADAP cuts eligibility from 400% to 130% FPL, threatening 16,000 PLWHA.

Travis Roppolo
Jan 256 min read
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