Journalists Talk Southern Health Care: HIV Drug Access, Medicaid Expansion, Vaccination Rates
³Ô¹Ï²»´òìÈ contributor Sarah Boden discussed cats and bird flu on KVPR’s “Central Valley Daily” on Feb. 12.
- Read Boden’s “House Cats With Bird Flu Could Pose a Risk to Public Health“
³Ô¹Ï²»´òìÈ South Carolina correspondent Lauren Sausser juxtaposed the increasing trendiness of rural health care and the lack of Medicaid expansion in the South on America’s Heroes Group on Feb. 12.
- Read Sausser’s “Across the South, Rural Health Care Has Become ‘Trendy.’ Medicaid Expansion Has Not.“
³Ô¹Ï²»´òìÈ contributor Rebecca Grapevine, of Healthbeat, discussed the barriers to lifesaving HIV drugs in Georgia on America’s Heroes Group on Feb. 12.
³Ô¹Ï²»´òìÈ Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed childhood vaccination rates on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Feb. 7.
- Read Whitehead’s “Childhood Vaccination Rates, a Rare Health Bright Spot in Struggling States, Are Slipping,” co-reported with Daniel Chang
³Ô¹Ï²»´òìÈ public health local editor and correspondent Amy Maxmen discussed the U.S.’ pulling out of the World Health Organization on America’s Heroes Group on Feb. 5.
- Read Maxmen’s “What a US Exit From the WHO Means for Global Health“