In This Issue

The Black AIDS Institute is proud to announce that a member of the Black Treatment Advocate Network has been named a community member of the DHHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. We profile Danielle Houston about the role she'll play in helping to craft these guidelines.

Also in this issue, President Obama didn't talk much about healthcare in his State of the Union address. But he did hint about what the upcoming months might bring. Kaiser Health News reports. An analysis performed by the National Cancer Institute has found that the currently available HPV vaccines could prevent more than 60 percent of anal cancers in HIV-positive MSM.

 Research shows that one in 300 high-risk American women gets infected with HIV every year, approximating the HIV incidence of adults in the Congo, Nigeria and Kenya. Most reported that had been unable to get the health care they needed during the previous 6 months. And new research shows that an immune-system protein normally found in semen might help facilitate male-to-female transmission of HIV.  It may also determine how infectious a male partner is.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill