In This Issue

If you're going to be in Los Angeles, we invite you to join us on Thursday at Heroes in the Struggle, a star-studded gala where celebrities like Danny Glover (Color Purple, Lethal Weapon), Brian J. White (Scandal), Shaun Robinson (Access Hollywood), Naomi Campbell (Empire) and other Black celebrities from film, stage, television and music, will honor Jussie Smollett, Gregorio Millett, Vanessa Mills and Janssen Therapeutics, a division of Janssen Products, LP. We kick off the celebration at 6:30 p.m. at the Director's Guild. Read on to learn more about the evening.

The list of preventive services that people are entitled to receive without paying anything out of pocket under the Affordable Care Act continues to grow. Hepatitis B screening for adolescents and adults at high risk for infection, including PLWHA, is among the latest additions. Our friends at Kaiser Health News reports.

The webinar "Hepatitis C Prevention Opportunities Among People Who Inject Drugs: Confronting the Growing Epidemic" presented by Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy last month has been uploaded online as a webinar, as slides and in transcript form. AIDS.gov shares social media strategies for reaching youth written by Anthony Roberts Jr., vice-chair and communications chair of the Young Black Gay Men's Leadership Initiative.

Our friends at Equality Florida, an LGBT rights advocacy organization explain why they embrace of the struggle for racial justice, including the #BlackLivesMatter movement's call for policing that is fair, accountable and bias free.

Finally, any day now, we expect the Supreme Court to rule on King v. Burwell, the case challenging the federal tax subsidies that millions of Americans buying health insurance on the federal exchange at healthcare.gov rely on. Learn what's at stake.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill