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Blog Post       Patient and Patient Advocates’ Reflections on Oral Health Care Challenges for Patients Living with HIV/AIDS

Patient and Patient Advocates’ Reflections on Oral Health Care Challenges for Patients Living with HIV/AIDS

In honor of World AIDS Day, and in alignment with AcademyHealth and the Weitzman Institute’s commitment to center the voices of lived experiences, this blog highlights patient/patient partners’ perspectives on challenges that patients living with HIV/AIDs experience in obtaining oral health care.
Posted Dec 6, 2023 By April Joy Damian, Ph.D., M.Sc.
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Addressing Social Needs through Medicaid: Lessons from Planning and Early Implementation of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots

As more states focus on addressing enrollee's social needs, North Carolina's Pilots project provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the implementation of 29 evidence-based services. This paper provides timely and practical findings and recommendations from the planning, capacity building, and early implementation of the program.
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