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This report describes progress HHS has made over the past year to implement the Department’s Advancing American Kidney Health (AAKH) initiative and the Executive Order that accompanied the initiative. The AAKH initiative, which was launched in July 2019, outlined specific action steps to transform kidney care by focusing on three goals: reducin

This report details takeaways and next steps from the HHS Health and Human Trafficking Symposium on November 28–29, 2018. The event was a 10-year followup to HHS’s 2008 National Symposium on the Health Needs of Human Trafficking Victims , which set an agenda for the past decade of research, policy, and practice at the intersection of health a

This brief reviews the literature on the cost of contraceptive coverage in private and public health insurance programs.  This brief was written by John Bertko, F.S.A., M.A.A.A., Director of Special Initiatives and Pricing in the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Sherry Glie