In This Issue

Cedric Sturdevant's work as a project coordinator at My Brother's Keeper in Jackson, Miss., just kicked to a whole 'nother level. After graduating from the African American HIV University's Science and Treatment College, Sturdevant, who is also a local BTAN co-chair, has seen his stock and effectiveness in his community rise. We report.

Mississippi Learning: Cedric Sturdevant

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.

Cedric Sturdevant lives and works in Jackson, Miss., where he is a very busy man. His primary job is project coordinator at the HIV/AIDS organization My Brother's Keeper, where he works with young Black MSM living with HIV/AIDS, implementing programs to help them foster healthy relationships. But his passion and commitment extend to other local AIDS-advocacy organizations: He is both the president of the board of Mississippi in Action and a facilitator for its men's HIV/AIDS support group.

Pennsylvania Governor Talks Up Plan To Expand Medicaid His Way

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett may have kept an eye this week on his fellow Republican governor in Ohio, John Kasich, as Kasich bypassed his own Republican legislature to expand the state's Medicaid program. As part of the Affordable Care Act, states have the option to give coverage to low-income adults, with the federal government picking up most of the tab. Only about half the states so far have planned to do that, starting Jan. 1, and Pennsylvania has, so far, not been among them.

HIV Clinicians in US Youth Survey Agree on Starting ART at 500 CD4s

Most clinicians caring for teens and young adults in a US survey agreed with national guidelines to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) at a CD4 count of 500 cells/µL, and most believed evidence about the value of starting ART at high CD4 counts.

Watch Gay Black Men Talk About Coming Out and Black Masculinity

Atlanta filmmaker Chase Simmons recently produced the documentary "Dear Dad," which explores the lives of eight gay men of color and their experiences coming out to their fathers. In an interview with HuffPost Live, Simmons says he used the documentary to come out as gay to his own father, and discussed the themes of black masculinity, religion and the challenges faced by single mothers.