Justices further elevate the right of religious exercise and the role of sectarian institutions in American society, in two separate rulings
US: Trump administration removes non-discrimination protections for transgender people in health care
US: Health Care Advocates Push Back Against Trump’s Erasure of Transgender Rights
US: HHS Finalizes Rule on Section 1557 Protecting Civil Rights in Healthcare, Restoring the Rule of Law, and Relieving Americans of Billions in Excessive Costs
US: The Fight Over the Affordable Care Act and Birth Control Is Back at the Supreme Court
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US: Supreme Court will review religious health care exemptions
In a move that LGBT legal activists see as “deeply worrisome,” the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday (January 17) said it will review two appeals in which the Trump administration is seeking to make it much easier for employers to exclude health insurance coverage for some medical procedures by saying such procedures violate their religious beliefs or moral conscience.
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US: HHS hands out free HIV prevention drugs. Do you qualify?
US: HHS Launches Ready, Set, PrEP Campaign
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication has been shown to reduce the risk of new HIV infection by as much as 97% when taken consistently. However, experts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recently released an analysis on the state of the HIV epidemic which indicates that PrEP is “vastly underutilized.”