In This Issue

No group in the in the United States is more impacted by HIV than Black people. According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey, most Black Americans know someone living with HIV/AIDS.For many of us that person is a close family member. This week, we profile newsmaker Dr. Grant Colfax, director of the Office of National AIDS Policy, who is leading the nation's effort to get to zero new infections.

Two recent studies have found that HIV remained detectable in the semen of some MSM who were taking antiretroviral meds that had made HIV undetectable in their blood. We run the International AIDS Society's write-up of the study that took place in the United States.

We run the last in Ron Valdisierri's series of interviews from AIDS 2012 -- this one with Tiffany West, chief of the Strategic Information Bureau in Washington D.C.'s, health department's AIDS division. Finally, Gov. Mitt Romney has named Cong. Paul Ryan to be his running mate. We run a piece from our friends ColorLines that describes why the author can't imagine a worse choice for people of color. And, as always, check out What We're Reading.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill