In This Issue

We meet BTAN Los Angeles's Robin Banks, 29, who was diagnosed with HIV at the young age of 15 years old. She tells her story and how she came to raise awareness and end stigma in her community.

The White House Office of National AIDS Strategy reports on two town hall meetings it held in the Bay area this summer to increase dialogue with local communities.

Thursday is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day, a time when we come together to talk about HIV and AIDS among older Americans. Our friends from AIDS.gov provide all the Twitter hashtags and social media guides and information you'll need to raise awareness that day.

Kaiser Health News reports on the consequences of many states' decisions not to expand Medicaid, focusing on the financial fallout in the Carolinas. .

And a new report paints a distressing picture of the health conditions facing Black women in Georgia and Mississippi—home of the Black girl who we've come to know as the "Mississippi baby" and her mother—particularly as it relates to their reproductive health.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill