Official Involved in Bush-Era Purge of Gay Employees Now in Trump Administration

Department of Agriculture official has a LGBT-unfriendly past

A government investigation found that Jim Renne was a key player in a scandal in which staff were targeted on the basis of sexual orientation.

It was one of the uglier scandals of the Bush administration: Top officials at an agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers launched a campaign against their own employees based on suspected sexual orientation, according to an inspector general report.

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Finally, a group of influential leaders in the AIDS movement have written an editorial about how important it is for the nation to adhere to the National AIDS Strategy. 

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This week we continue our series on the Fellows of the African American HIV University with a profile of Quintin Stroud and his work in the Motor City.

We continue to keep our eye on the Republican efforts to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, by sharing a Kaiser Health News story about the Republicans' efforts to make the law collapse by other means, including by undermining the cost-sharing subsidies and tax credits that make co-payments, annual deductibles and monthly premiums affordable to millions.

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AAHU Fellow Quintin Stroud: We Need More Trained Leaders in Black Communities

AAHU Fellow Quentin Stroud

One in a series about recent graduates of the African American HIV University (AAHU).

Thirty years ago, Quintin Stroud was fearful. He had just been diagnosed with HIV and was afraid to seek medical treatment because everyone he knew who had taken the antiretroviral medication azidothymidine (AZT) had ended up dead. He didn't trust the medication at all. It wasn't until years later, with the encouragement of his friends, that he finally went to see a doctor.

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