In This Issue

Today the Black AIDS Institute and BTAN chapters in Baltimore, MD, and Broward County, Florida, host AIDS 2016 Updates to provide an overview of key research presented at the International AIDS Conference and discuss how to tailor it to the local community. If you live in either of these cities, we hope to seeing you there. See AIDS 2016 Updates, below, to register.

Earlier this summer, the city of Washington, D.C., launched a campaign, #PrEPForHer, to increase the awareness and uptake of PrEP among Black women. Candace Y.A. Montague reports.

The nation observed National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day last week, a day when we remind ourselves of the epidemic's disproportionate impact upon gay and bisexual men. Richard Wolitski, the acting director of HHS's Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy asks why the new-diagnosis trends for gay and bisexual men, including Black gay and bisexual men, do not reflect the progress being made among other demographic groups—and how we shift our activities so that we get results? He also writes about the excitement he felt during this era of great progress, as he turned 52 at the USCA, a birthday he never expected to see more than 20 years ago, when he first received his diagnosis.

We marked National HIV & Aging Awareness Day, as well, late last month. ONAP director Dr. Amy Lansky writes about how the National HIV/AIDS Strategy applies to older people, including women.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened recently in Washington, D.C. We run a piece by ColorLines writer Kenrya Rankin about how her first visit to this new national treasure impacted her sense of Black womanhood.

Finally, our next AIDS 2016 Updates take place in Chicago on October 19, Jackson on October 27 and Richmond-Petersburg on October 29. You can register, here.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill