Keith Kilpatrick

Jan 16, 2025 | newrepublic.com | Keith Kilpatrick

What’s past is prologue: In 1987, Republican Senator Jesse Helms took to the Senate floor to defend an amendment to the appropriations bill that blocked funding for HIV programs that “promote, encourage, or condone homosexual activities.” That amendment passed 96–2 in the Senate and passed the House with only 47 objections.

Jan 16, 2025 | yahoo.com | Keith Kilpatrick

What’s past is prologue: In 1987, Republican Senator Jesse Helms took to the Senate floor to defend an amendment to the appropriations bill that blocked funding for HIV programs that “promote, encourage, or condone homosexual activities.” That amendment passed 96–2 in the Senate and passed the House with only 47 objections.

Dec 25, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Keith Kilpatrick

It was a dose of qualified good news. Signed in 2022, Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act gave the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services a power they’d sorely lacked since the agency’s conception: the ability to negotiate drug prices directly with the manufacturers. The law was by no means perfect. The cost savings are only for 10, albeit very expensive, drugs, and the negotiated prices only apply to Medicare and Medicaid rather than extending to every health care insurance plan.

Nov 29, 2024 | yahoo.com | Keith Kilpatrick

The year is 1998. While antiviral drugs to treat HIV had been approved a decade earlier, only five out of 33 million people who carried the virus were receiving the life-saving treatment. Nowhere was the situation worse than in South Africa. The country had the highest global prevalence of the disease with nearly one in five people infected and 200,000 children orphaned. Treatment options were limited.

Nov 26, 2024 | alliancemagazine.org | Keith Kilpatrick

In the world of public relations and strategic communications, the ability to shape narratives is often more powerful than presenting objective truths. This concept was at the heart of Peter Lykke Lind’s presentation, ‘Facts are for losers! Strategic Communications for a Winning Strategy’, hosted by the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC) at P4NE.