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Though not as great as Republicans claim, the opioid legislation includes victories for drug user advocates.

Up to $266 million to be moved from a number of health programs. Here’s how you can help stop it.

470 seats are up for grabs in Congress. Here’s how you can be an informed and active voter.

After calls to lawmakers and activists, here’s what I learned about those Ryan White dollars.

Methamphetamine overdose deaths have skyrocketed in an epicenter of the opioid crisis.

During AIDSWatch 2018, HIV advocates visit Capitol Hill to lobby for the needs of people living with and at risk for HIV. [VIDEO]

Lawmakers advance 25 measures to fight the epidemic, with 30 more to come. But is this just “nibbling around the edges” of the crisis?

Elsewhere in the Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations process, Congress attempts to restore order.

Any joy from the bills put forward this week is snuffed out by the absence of any new funding in the House and Senate legislative packages.

The FDA commissioner wants drugmakers to “end the shenanigans.”

Here’s how FOSTA-SESTA will endanger sex workers and increase HIV risk.

As Congress looks to fund the government for 2019, Trump tries to rescind funding for 2018.

The rescission proposal would cut funds from nondiscretionary domestic programs such as Ryan White HIV/AIDS programs.

HIV advocates in DC, as captured in hashtags, pics and videos.

As a government shutdown looms yet again, HIV advocates await details about future funding.

For starters, the law could shut down internet sites, forcing sex workers on the street, where they’re in even more danger.