In This Issue

Last week in Chicago, before the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) began, the Black Treatment Advocates Network (BTAN) held its national meeting. BTAN participants traveled in from all over the United States. Writer Rod McCullom reports on both the BTAN meeting and USCA's opening session.

Thousands Attend Opening of USCA 2011 in Chicago

An estimated 3,000 people--including HIV/AIDS advocates, policy experts, health care professionals, elected officials and people living with HIV/AIDS--arrived in Chicago for the 15th Annual United States Conference on AIDS (USCA 2011) Nov. 10-13. The conference, sponsored by the National Minority AIDS Council, is the largest HIV/AIDS gathering in the nation.

Road to AIDS 2012: A Series of Town Hall Meetings--Washington, D.C.

D.C. Takes the National HIV/AIDS Strategy to Task on Inclusion

The second in a series of articles about the Road to AIDS 2012, a 15-city tour that seeks to define the state of the U.S. epidemic and that leads up to the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., in July 2012. The first installment reported on the Bay Area meeting.

The inclusion of all groups in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) was a predominant theme on the second stop of the Road to AIDS 2012 tour.

Walgreens HIV Centers of Excellence Pharmacies Now Top 500 Nationwide in Areas Most Impacted by HIV/AIDS

At the U.S. Conference on AIDS in Chicago, Walgreens announced that has now certified more than 500 of its pharmacies as HIV Centers of Excellence (COE) in communities highly impacted by HIV, as identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It will also be expanding its partnership with Greater Than AIDS, a national campaign developed by the Kaiser Family Foundation with the Black AIDS Institute in response to HIV/AIDS in the United States.

Will This Generation's Magic Johnson Please Stand Up?

It was the disclosure heard around the world.

On Nov. 7, 1991, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, then only 32 years old, stepped up to the microphone, addressed the press and uttered the words, "Because of the HIV virus that I have attained, I will have to retire from the Lakers today. I just want to make clear, first of all, that I do not have the AIDS disease ... but the HIV virus."