In This Issue

Children who acquire HIV from their mothers during pregnancy, labor, delivery or from breast-feeding need medical care throughout their youth. Vicki Tepper, Ph.D., director of the Pediatric AIDS Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore brings us up to speed on what happens to these children as they become adults.

Black gay millennials Guy Anthony, Kahlib Barton, and Patrick Ingram all blogged at the USCA last month. Read what they have been thinking about.

Stop worrying about Ebola long enoug to get your flu. While the Ebola virus is on many of our minds, thus far it has affected just a handful of Americans. Tens of millions of us will likely get influenza this season and for some of us it will be life-threatening. It's particularly important that those of us living with HIV/AIDS protect ourselves from the flu. Under the Affordable Care Act, flu vaccines are free when delivered by a health care provider in your insurer's network.

American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association's 2013 cholesterol guidelines issued suggest that statin therapy is not appropriate for many PLWHA, according to results of a 108-person analysis in Boston. We report.

And as we approach the next open enrollment period for the ACA's Health Insurance Marketplace (November 15, 2014 to February 15, 2015), HIV service organizations and community-based groups are gearing up to help people at risk for and living with HIV as well as others to enroll in coverage. We connect you to resources.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill