923 - A Critical Moment in the Fight Against HIV
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.8 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
About this episode:
The United States stands at a pivotal juncture in eradicating HIV. Despite recent advancements, including the development of an effective new form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an uncertain future marked by cuts to Medicaid and research hurdles threatens to undo the country’s progress. In this episode: Jeremiah Johnson, Executive Director of PrEP4All, sheds light on the urgent need for equitable access to PrEP and what’s at stake if we fail to scale up initiatives to test, prevent, and treat HIV.
Guest:
Jeremiah Johnson is the Executive Director of PrEP4All—an organization that seeks to prevent the spread of HIV by identifying data-driven policy solutions to increase access to PrEP.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland’s Health Department.
Show links and related content:
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Trump’s Policies Could Undermine the Fight to End America’s HIV Epidemic—Tradeoffs
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Financing and Delivering Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to End the HIV Epidemic—Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
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A National PrEP Program to End the Nation’s HIV Epidemic—Public Health On Call (April 2022)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.1 | It's Lindsay Smith-Rogers. |
| 0:33.1 | Today, the future of the HIV epidemic in the United States. |
| 0:37.4 | Jeremiah Johnson is a longtime HIV advocate and the future of the HIV epidemic in the United States. Jeremiah Johnson is a longtime HIV |
| 0:39.7 | advocate and the director of Prep for All, an organization that supports more resources for HIV |
| 0:45.6 | prevention. He speaks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the nation at a crossroads with HIV, with the |
| 0:52.0 | opportunity to end the epidemic and the alternative that it could |
| 0:56.2 | get a lot worse. Let's listen. Jeremiah Johnson, thanks so much for coming to public health on call. |
| 1:03.7 | How are you doing today? I'm doing fine. How are you doing, Josh? I'm doing fine. I'm looking forward |
| 1:09.8 | to this conversation. I'm familiar with your work calling for more HIV prevention in the United States. |
| 1:17.6 | Could you tell our audience about your organization? |
| 1:20.6 | Sure. |
| 1:21.6 | So I'm the executive director at Prep for All. |
| 1:25.6 | And as you said, we focus a lot on advocacy and policy |
| 1:31.4 | advocacy related to HIV prevention and specifically pre-exposure, prophylaxis or prep, |
| 1:38.5 | which if you're not familiar with that, is the use of antiretroviral medications. |
| 1:43.8 | There are certain regimens that |
| 1:45.1 | been approved by the FDA to prevent acquisition of HIV for people who are HIV negative. |
| 1:51.4 | And we've been really focused since our founding in 2018 to get more equitable access to this |
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