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Colorado health chief’s testimony in whistleblower lawsuit against CDPHE wasn’t credible, judge says

A Denver District judge is allowing a whistleblower lawsuit against the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to move forward in a ruling that cast doubt on testimony from the agency’s leader. In a ruling last week, Judge Shelley Gilman denied the state’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by a former high-level employee, […]

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As HIV infection rates rise in Colorado, pharmacies can now prescribe preventative pills

Colorado this month became one of the first states in the nation to let pharmacists prescribe HIV prevention drugs, part of a public health effort to curb rising infection rates nearly a decade after breakthroughs in medicine that can stop HIV’s spread.  Starting this week, pharmacies can begin offering the daily preventative pill or an […]

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HIV-prevention funding is being slashed in Colorado, even as a growing number of people are diagnosed

An alert went out to health agencies in late summer: the number of Coloradans diagnosed with HIV was on the rise, especially women.  The state health department is now predicting 455 people will receive HIV diagnoses by the end of 2019, up from 409 last year. And this comes after more than a decade of […]