To curb HIV/AIDS, researchers have proposed a strategy to use drug treatment to decrease new transmissions so much that the epidemic eventually dies out. The concept requires changes in standards of when anti-retroviral therapy begins and who receives it. Could “treatment as prevention” prove to be the strategy to finally end the AIDS epidemic?

In this webinar, experts will highlight recent efforts involving knowledge developed from study of the microbiome, or the trillions of bacteria that help maintain a healthy ecological community within the human body.

This webinar will focus on key components of the ACA, which included more than two dozen provisions affecting oral health and education in the dental health professions. 

Most HealthCare.gov (federal exchange) enrollees from 2014 will be automatically re-enrolled for 2015 unless they have already chosen a plan or opted out.

The Kaiser Family Foundation will hold a web briefing to look at the impact of Medicaid expansion on the homeless.

A panel of experts in genetic testing for prenatal abnormalities will answer questions about a new generation of unregulated prenatal screening tests.

Senior CMS officials will host an on-the-record press conference call about the Affordable Care Act and open enrollment.

The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) webinar will explore open enrollment strategies and challenges faced by state-based exchanges and Medicaid agencies in states with federal marketplaces. 

During this web briefing exclusively for journalists, Gary Claxton and Larry Levitt, of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Program for the Study of Health Reform and Private Insurance, will discuss how the penalties will work, what options employers have for meeting the mandate, how employers might respond, and how these provision could affect coverage and costs for employers and workers.

Conference call to release “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases,” which includes a report card for how well states scored on 10 indicators of strategies to prevent and control infectious disease outbreaks in addition to national and global concerns.