In This Issue

We run the second installment of our four-part series about our 2015 Heroes in the Struggle awardees, profiling Vanessa Mills, the founder and executive director of Empower U Inc., in Miami. We also wrap up our two-part series about the healthcare challenges transgender people face.

This time we focus on factors that increase the likelihood that people will engage risky behavior and the difficulties some face in their attempt to obtain and take hormone therapy.

May is Hepatitis Awareness Month. Our friends at AIDS.gov share some social media tools that can help create awareness of viral hepatitis. Women are more vulnerable than men are to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and diseases (STDs). They're also less likely to have symptoms. Nancy C. Lee, the director of the Office of Women's Health, provides six tips to reduce your risk.

And there's more good news about healthcare reform—this time from the Cleveland Clinic, which has cut its charity care spending significantly.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill