Rate Of Uninsured Stays Flat In 2010, Census Reports

Nearly 50 million Americans lacking health insurance was the best economic news to come out of the bleak U.S. Census figures released today.

Medicare Steps Up Enforcement of Equal Visitation and Representation Rights for Same Sex Partners in Hospitals

Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)announced new guidance to support enforcement of rules that protect hospital patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner.

Community Input for 2012 International AIDS Conference

In October, planning committees convened by the International AIDS Society will begin to make decisions about non-abstract-driven sessions that will occur at the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC in July 2012. Planning will begin on everything from the opening ceremonies and plenary sessions to special symposia, workshops, and other presentations and discussions designed to address the most pressing issues and topics facing the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

In This Issue

Many people with HIV also have hepatitis. Here, HIV specialist Dr. Teresa Mack, an associate medical director at New York City's St. Luke's-Roosevelt hospital, educates readers about how to manage an HIV/hepatitis co-infection.

We also run ColorLines.com's Q&A with Richard Wolitski, a deputy director in the CDC’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Division, about the CDC's concern regarding the increase in new HIV infections among young Black gay and bisexual men, as well as its new Testing Makes Us Stronger HIV-testing campaign.

Ask the Doctor: What Is Hepatitis-and-HIV Co-Infection?

Every month, HIV specialist Theresa Mack, M.D., M.P.H.--an associate medical director at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital's Medical Group in Harlem, N.Y.--will answer your most pressing HIV/AIDS questions.