In This Issue

Next week, the Black AIDS Institute will be at the U.S. Conference on AIDS in Washington, D.C. On Tuesday, September 8, before the Conference kicks off, the Institute will host the 2015 Black Treatment Advocates Network (BTAN) National Meeting, where BTAN's leadership will discuss progress toward ending the AIDS epidemic in Black communities and create a strategy for 2016. On Wednesday, September 9th, we'll host the BTAN Black PrEP Summit, to discuss strategies to increase PrEP uptake in Black communities, particularly among Black gay and bisexual men. We open this issue with a story about these meetings, which we invite you to join. Just click through on the links to register.

After publishing the 2020 Update to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy last month, the White House has released a companion guide to provide detailed information about the quantitative indicators that will measure the nation's progress.

In an era in which we are constantly reminded of racial bias in the criminal justice system and policing, our friends at Kaiser Health News turn the spotlight on the health care system, asking whether it can ever be cured of unconscious racial bias.

Recently the CDC released its updated STD Treatment Guidelines. They've also developed the STD Tx Guide, a companion mobile reference device for healthcare providers. Our friends at AIDS.gov report.

Finally, we recently marked the one-year anniversary of the uprising in Ferguson. We run a piece from Colorlines where activists respond to the St. Louis County prosecutor's decision to issue summonses to them and the journalists who were arrested during the protests last year.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill