Recent Press Releases

As a global organization dedicated to health as a human right, to social justice, and to individual autonomy and choice, AVAC strongly condemns the decision by a federal judge in Texas who issued an unprecedented preliminary injunction that suspends the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone, a safe and effective abortion medication approved more than 20 years ago.

A new ruling by a US federal judge in Texas strikes down a provision of the Affordable Care Act that required insurance coverage of many preventive services, including HIV testing and the prevention drugs use for Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and doubles down on the judge’s previous ruling in a separate case that PrEP provision violates some individuals’ religious freedom. The current ruling will not only affect HIV prevention services, but endangers access to contraception, vaccinations, routine health screenings and a wide range of prevention services.

Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson and partners announced that the Mosaico study, a large-scale HIV vaccine efficacy study, was stopped early for non-efficacy. The vaccine regimen was found to be safe.

As a global organization dedicated to health as a human right, to social justice, and to individual autonomy and choice, AVAC condemns the decision by a federal judge in Texas who ruled in favor of a historically homophobic, misogynistic, and discriminatory plaintiff. A conservative activist sued on behalf of a Texas company claiming that adhering to a provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring employers to provide coverage for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs violates their religious rights.