In This Issue 

This week we run three stories about the Affordable Care Act.

We begin with a look at Arizona governor Jan Brewer's decision to walk back her very vocal opposition to the ACA and to have her state participate in one of its key provisions--Medicaid expansion--after all. We also learn about the dramatic price reductions Maryland will offer its residents when its health insurance marketplace opens this October 1st and look at the work volunteer canvassers with nonprofit Enroll America are doing in Florida to prepare uninsured residents to participate in that state's marketplace. New research suggests that some sort of interplay exists between recent HIV testing, substance abuse during sex, and unprotected anal intercourse among 150 New York City MSM who had tested positive within the past three months.

And we run a piece from AIDS.gov about World Hepatitis Day, which last week commemorated the lives of people who suffer from or have lost their lives to this virus that all too often impacts people living with HIV/AIDS.

Yours in the struggle,

Leisha McKinley Beach