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How HHS Secretary Reconciles Proposed Medicaid Cuts, Stopping The Spread Of HIV

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HHS Secretary Alex Azar at a White House roundtable discussion of health care prices in January. Azar tells NPR his office is now in “active negotiations and discussion” with drugmakers on how to make HIV prevention medicines more available and “cost-effective.”

In his State of the Union address this year, President Trump announced an initiative “to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years.”

The man who pitched the president on this idea is Alex Azar, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

“We have the data that tells us where we have to focus, we have the tools, we have the leadership — this is an historic opportunity,” Azar told NPR’s Ari Shapiro Monday Read More

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