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U.S. v. Skrmetti Is a Profound Setback for Transgender Youth and Their Families
Today’s Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti is a profound setback for transgender youth and their families across the country. By allowing Tennessee’s categorical ban on gender-affirming care for minors to stand, the Court has opened the door for other states to continue denying medically necessary, evidence-based care—care that every major medical and mental...
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Request to Protect and Preserve HIV and STD Prevention Infrastructure in Los Angeles County
As a follow up to the May 6, 2025, policy update on the End the Epidemics Coalition (ETE) Day of Action in Sacramento, this week APLA Health met with representatives from the Board of Supervisors and submitted the following letter urging the Board to identify emergency funding that will preserve our LA County HIV and...
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HIV Coalition Urges California to Backfill $60 Million in Federal-Level CDC Cuts
End the Epidemics–a coalition of more than 120 community-based organizations working to end the HIV, STI, viral hepatitis, and overdose epidemics in California–is calling for the state legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom to allocate $60 million in state funding to cover cuts at the federal level to HIV prevention. The funding could be re-allocated from...
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