AJMC September 1, 2024
At the 25th International AIDS Conference, Emmanuel Nazaire Essam, MD, MPH, presented the analysis, “Medicaid Insurance Expansion and Its Association With HIV Outcomes in Nebraska, USA: An Observational Prospective Cohort Study.”
Post medical school, Emmanuel Nazaire Essam, MD, MPH, set to work caring for populations living in rural areas of his native Cameroon. HIV and AIDS were among the many health care–related challenges that these individuals faced, and these were compounded by several economic and social barriers, such as lack of adequate and reliable transportation, costs of care, and deficient health literacy.
He became not only a clinician and health care provider to people living with HIV (PLWH), but their logistics guru as well, planning strategies to increase access to...