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Beyond Biomedical Breakthroughs: How Access Gaps Are Slowing the End of the U.S. HIV Epidemic

At U.S. Business Action To End HIV's 3rd Annual Coalition Meeting, hosted by Health Action Alliance in Washington, D.C., business leaders, policymakers, HIV experts, and community partners came together around a shared question: if we already have the tools to end the HIV epidemic, why aren’t we closer to the finish line? Across plenary discussions and breakout cohorts, conversations converged on a similar observation: we are constrained less by scientific capability than b

Nima Shiraz

Dec 22 min read

When Innovation Outpaces Equity: Lessons from the Democratized Diagnostics Panel at HLTH

This year's Democratized Diagnostics panel discussion at HLTH Inc. in Las Vegas, NV highlighted how the privatized and decentralized healthcare system in the U.S. that empowers innovation in diagnostics also necessitates it, because it fails, by design, to serve everyone equally or coherently. Against this backdrop, each innovator on the panel has leveraged the system’s open market to build new paths toward accessibility, using capital, technology, and consumer demand to de

Nima Shiraz

Oct 232 min read