Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is extremely effective in treating opioid use disorder and in helping to sustain recovery. It’s critically important to expand access to MAT by ensuring that providers can obtain the training required to prescribe and dispense it. Linked below is information about a new…Read More
January 28, 2019
Free Online Training for Medication-Assisted Treatment
December 4, 2018
Help end the HIV, Hep C & STD Epidemics in California
Project Inform is pleased to be one of the key leaders of a critically important and innovative effort to end the HIV, HCV and STD epidemics in California. We have the tools we need to effectively address these epidemics and our coalition of over 85 community…Read More
November 30, 2018
Rededicating ourselves to fierce advocacy on World AIDS Day 2018
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day, conceived of by two public information officers from the World Health Organization in the 1980s as a day of HIV “awareness and remembrance.” Increasing awareness is important. Our lives count, and when the very existence of those we love and fight…Read More
November 28, 2018
Project Inform and AIDS United Release Report on Efforts to Bring Safer Consumption Spaces to U.S.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 28, 2018 CONTACT: Kyle Murphy, 202-876-2820, kmurphy@aidsunited.org Identify key barriers and offer specific strategies to extend funding and advocate for their establishment Washington, DC – AIDS United and Project Inform released a report today examining current efforts to bring Safer Consumption Spaces…Read More
November 19, 2018
RX ALERT: Requirements for furnishing and dispensing drugs during a declared state of emergency
CPhA would like to remind pharmacists about the Board of Pharmacy’s requirements for furnishing prescription drugs in a declared state of emergency. Under Business and Professions Code 4062, a pharmacist may, in good faith, furnish dangerous drugs and devices without a prescription as long as: It’s in…Read More
California Health Advocates (CHA) received communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that people with Medicare who live in or were evacuated from a FEMA-declared wild fire emergency or disaster area will be eligible for a Special Election Period (SEP) to switch, disenroll…Read More