In This Issue

This week we continue our series on the Fellows of the African American HIV University with a profile of Quintin Stroud and his work in the Motor City.

We continue to keep our eye on the Republican efforts to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, by sharing a Kaiser Health News story about the Republicans' efforts to make the law collapse by other means, including by undermining the cost-sharing subsidies and tax credits that make co-payments, annual deductibles and monthly premiums affordable to millions.

Recently the Justice Department announced that it had negotiated a settlement in a discrimination lawsuit against the Pea Ridge, Arkansas school district. You may remember that the district refused to allow children who had a family member living with HIV to attend school until the children themselves had been tested for HIV and the district had reviewed the results.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have published a strategy for eliminating hepatitis B and C. This is particularly important for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) because so many PLWHA have a hepatitis coinfection.

And our friends at AIDS.gov remind you of their weekly virtual office hours. They will also be holding their fantastic social media lab at the Circle of Harmony and SYNC 2017 conferences occurring later this month.

Finally, all of us know that elections have consequences. Next week, we will take a look at one of those consequences—the fact that President Trump now has the authority to propose a federal budget that reflects his priorities—and that budget's implications for people living with HIV and AIDS.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill