Educating Ministers: Deaconess Lindsay Bryant

One in a series of profiles of the 2013 Fellows in the Black AIDS Institute's African American HIV University's Science and Treatment College.

I am a 62-year-old mother and grandmother living in Richmond, Va., who retired from Verizon after 33 years. I am a member of St. Paul's Baptist Church, a mega-church with 13,000 members and four campuses. I've been a member since 1995, and I'm one of 100 ordained deacons.

Black US Women on ART Have Higher AIDS Death Rate Than White Women

HIV-positive African-American women taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) and enrolled in a large US prospective study had a higher rate of death from AIDS and new AIDS-defining illnesses than white women.

What Consumers Need To Know About The Obama Plan For Canceled Health Policies

President Barack Obama's pledge to Americans that they could keep their health plans if they liked them began to backfire last month.

Insurers sent cancellation letters to hundreds of thousands of customers holding individual and family policies, saying the plans didn't comply with health law provisions effective Jan. 1.

In NYC MSM With Rectal Bacterial Infection, 1 in 15 Gets HIV Yearly

One in 15 New York City men who have sex with men (MSM) with rectal chlamydia or gonorrhea got diagnosed with HIV infection within a year. In contrast, only 1 in 40 MSM seen at the same sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics but without rectal chlamydia or gonorrhea got diagnosed with HIV.

Addressing Stigma and Misconceptions: Kendra Taylor

One in a series of profiles of the 2013 Fellows in the Black AIDS Institute's African American HIV University's Science and Treatment College.

Kendra Taylor received a gift for her 24th birthday that she will never forget. The Chicago native was invited to speak at a conference in that city before almost 200 women. She had never spoken to such a large audience before, but to her surprise her presentation was well-received. Taylor believes this was due in large part to the training she had recently received as a Fellow in the Black AIDS Institute's African American HIV University's Science and Treatment College in Los Angeles.