In This Issue

As we continue our series on Black people's journeys to obtain HIV treatment, adhere to their regimen and reach an undetectable viral load, photographer Duane Cramer shares his experience with overcoming shame, adhering to his meds, and recently becoming involved in a new HIV-education campaign to encourage other people to get to undetectable.

We share a video from our friends at AIDS.gov that illustrates the steps along the treatment cascade and the benefits of HIV treatment. We also run an article that describes how fewer than 25 percent of Medicaid patients get linked to care within one year.

As the Affordable Care Act rolls out and the states have to create their own insurance marketplaces or participate in the one being created by the federal government, the previously united Republican is splitting in its stance against Obamacare. We run an article from Kaiser Health News that reports on a controversy playing out in Mississippi.

Americans want the government to reduce the federal deficit, but they don't want Medicare cut, according to the survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill