In This Issue

We are just 4 days away from the beginning of Open Enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplaces and 34 days away from the date enrollment closes for coverage that begins on January 1, 2015. (February 15 is the final deadline for coverage for 2015.)

In this issue, we provide you with 5 steps to help you stay covered. And the ACE TA Center announces webinars to help prepare you to help your clients with open enrollment.

To end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, we must use all the tools in our biomedical toolkit. But PrEP uptake in the United States has been slow, especially in communities of color. In this issue we share six myths that are contributing to the lag. And Dr. Ron Valdiserri tells us about HRSA's PrEP consultation phone service to help clinicians learn who the most appropriate candidates are, how PrEP should be administered, the best practices for lab evaluations and more.

Even for people with health insurance, the cost of many medications remains exorbitant, as increasing numbers of insurers and employers shift the cost of high priced drugs onto the people who take them. This is particularly worrisome for PLWHA.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill