{"id":3779,"date":"2025-02-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2025-02-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T10:00:00","slug":"journalists-talk-southern-health-care-hiv-drug-access-medicaid-expansion-vaccination-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=3779","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Talk Southern Health Care: HIV Drug Access, Medicaid Expansion, Vaccination Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News contributor Sarah Boden discussed cats and bird flu on KVPR\u2019s \u201cCentral Valley Daily\u201d on Feb. 12. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvpr.org\/podcast\/central-valley-daily\/2025-02-12\/feb-12-the-danger-of-bird-flu-on-our-domestic-cats\">Click here to hear Boden on \u201cCentral Valley Daily\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Boden\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/domestic-indoor-cats-bird-flu-public-health-risk-pets-humans\/\">House Cats With Bird Flu Could Pose a Risk to Public Health<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News South Carolina correspondent Lauren Sausser juxtaposed the increasing trendiness of rural health care and the lack of Medicaid expansion in the South on America\u2019s Heroes Group on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/ppr0hBetDmk\">Click here to watch Sausser on America\u2019s Heroes Group<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Sausser\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/south-carolina-clemson-rural-health-medicaid-expansion-clinics\/\">Across the South, Rural Health Care Has Become \u2018Trendy.\u2019 Medicaid Expansion Has Not.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News contributor Rebecca Grapevine, of Healthbeat, discussed the barriers to lifesaving HIV drugs in Georgia on America\u2019s Heroes Group on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/ppr0hBetDmk\">Click here to watch Grapevine on America\u2019s Heroes Group<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/prep-hiv-drug-biden-rule-access-georgia-barriers-remain\/\">Biden Rule Cleared Hurdles to Lifesaving HIV Drug, but in Georgia Barriers Remain<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed childhood vaccination rates on WUGA\u2019s \u201cThe Georgia Health Report\u201d on Feb. 7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuga.org\/show\/wuga-health-desk\/2025-02-07\/georgia-health-report-are-childhood-vaccination-rates-falling\">Click here to hear Whitehead on \u201cThe Georgia Health Report\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Whitehead\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/childhood-vaccination-rates-exemptions-conservative-states-public-health\/\">Childhood Vaccination Rates, a Rare Health Bright Spot in Struggling States, Are Slipping<\/a>,\u201d co-reported with Daniel Chang<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News public health local editor and correspondent Amy Maxmen discussed the U.S.\u2019 pulling out of the World Health Organization on America\u2019s Heroes Group on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CX_UFDeAFDA\">Click here to watch Maxmen on America\u2019s Heroes Group<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Maxmen\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/us-exit-from-who-global-health-trump-executive-order\/\">What a US Exit From the WHO Means for Global Health<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/on-air-february-15-2025-bird-flu-rural-health-hiv-prep-vaccines\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News contributor Sarah Boden discussed cats and bird flu on KVPR\u2019s \u201cCentral Valley Daily\u201d on Feb. 12. Click here to hear Boden on \u201cCentral Valley Daily\u201d Read Boden\u2019s \u201cHouse Cats With Bird Flu Could Pose a Risk to Public Health\u201d KFF Health News South Carolina correspondent Lauren Sausser juxtaposed the increasing trendiness of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}