Journalists Dig Into Maine HIV Outbreak and Ever-Closer End to Enhanced ACA Subsidies

KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed Maine’s largest HIV outbreak to date, including the challenges in tracking transmission and treating people with the virus, on The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Public Health On Call on Dec. 1.

Click here to hear Pattani on Public Health On Call.
Read Pattani’s “An HIV Outbreak in Maine Shows the Risk of Trump’s Crackdown on Homelessness and Drug Use.”

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed rising health insurance costs on The Middle With Jeremy Hobson’s One Thing Trump Did on Nov. 20.

Click here to hear Rovner on One Thing Trump Did.

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<h1>Journalists Dig Into Maine HIV Outbreak and Ever-Closer End to Enhanced ACA Subsidies</h1>
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			December 6, 2025		</time>
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<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed Maine’s largest HIV outbreak to date, including the challenges in tracking transmission and treating people with the virus, on The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s <em>Public Health On Call</em> on Dec. 1.</p><ul><li><a href="https://podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/981-maines-largest-ever-hiv-outbreak">Click here to hear Pattani on <em>Public Health On Call</em>.</a></li><li>Read Pattani’s “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/hiv-outbreak-bangor-maine-syringe-services-programs-trump-homelessness/">An HIV Outbreak in Maine Shows the Risk of Trump’s Crackdown on Homelessness and Drug Use</a>.”</li></ul><p>KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed rising health insurance costs on The Middle With Jeremy Hobson’s <em>One Thing Trump Did</em> on Nov. 20.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-middle-with-jeremy-ho-102531530/episode/ottd-is-your-healthcare-about-to-308420186/">Click here to hear Rovner on <em>One Thing Trump Did</em>.</a></li></ul><p /><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/on-air-december-6-2025-maine-hiv-outbreak-homelessness-trump-aca-subsidies/?share=x">				Share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/on-air-december-6-2025-maine-hiv-outbreak-homelessness-trump-aca-subsidies/?share=facebook">				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/on-air-december-6-2025-maine-hiv-outbreak-homelessness-trump-aca-subsidies/?share=linkedin">				Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Journalists%20Dig%20Into%20Maine%20HIV%20Outbreak%20and%20Ever-Closer%20End%20to%20Enhanced%20ACA%20Subsidies&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2FMTY1ODgwOQ&share=email">				Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/on-air-december-6-2025-maine-hiv-outbreak-homelessness-trump-aca-subsidies/#print?share=print">				Print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li></ul><em><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—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/on-air-december-6-2025-maine-hiv-outbreak-homelessness-trump-aca-subsidies/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a <a target="_blank" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"></p>
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