In This Issue

For years people living with HIV/AIDS fought for the Affordable Care Act and now we have it. We are closing in on the March 31st deadline for enrolling in health care coverage. To encourage the stragglers to sign up, we run an essay by Magic Johnson who points us to a video in which he talks about how having health insurance coverage saved his life.

We continue our series on HIV Criminalization with our partners at ProPublica. We run a piece about HIV among women and girls by Hazel Dean, Sc.D., MPH, deputy director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at the CDC.

The National Medical Association has updated its recommendations for addressing the Hepatitis C—the most common cause of liver cirrhosis and primary liver cancer, and a key cause of liver transplants—crisis among African Americans. We run a piece by Charles D. Howell, M.D., A.F.A.G, professor and chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Howard medical school, discussing the new doctors' orders.

Finally, the Black AIDS Institute has held our early-bird drawings for the Drive Out AIDS, Win a New Car raffle. We begin a series where we tell you who won and what their prizes were.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill