In This Issue

Recently ESPN aired The Announcement, a documentary depicting Black AIDS Institute Hero in the Struggle recipient and long-time partner Magic Johnson's courageous and groundbreaking decision to go public with his HIV status. Writer Janice Littlejohn reports.

In February delegates from the Black Treatment Advocates Network attended the Microbicide Trials Network annual conference. Several participants share their most important takeaways.

Grant Colfax, M.D., M.P.H., takes the helm as director of the Office of National AIDS Policy, forming working groups about women and HIV.

David Holtzgrave, Ph.D., chair of the department of health, behavior and society at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health shares his thoughts about the challenges that our nation faces to implementing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, even as the U.S. prepares to host the International AIDS Conference. We cover the Road to AIDS 2012 town hall meeting in Houston. Ambassador and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby looks forward to AIDS 2012. The Institute of Medicine releases its report on monitoring HIV care in the United States.

Finally, this week marks a monumental occasion for people living with HIV and AIDS: the Supreme Court hears oral arguments about the individual mandate, which lays at the heart of the Affordable Care Act. Our friends at Kaiser Health News, which is providing outstanding and comprehensive coverage of this issue, consider the consequences should this important piece of legislation be overturned.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill