In This Issue

Today is National Hepatitis Testing Day, a day that reminds me that yet another chronic disease disproportionately impacts Black people. It's as good a place as any to begin to look at America's health disparities and figure out strategies to improve the health outcomes of Black Americans. The good news is that we actually have a cure for hepatitis C. The bad news is many Black people who are living with hepatitis C don't know that the cure exists, don't have access to it or even worse don't even know that they have hepatitis C. But there's never been a better time to find out your hep C status—treatments are available and each of us can take steps to prevent the disease.

In this issue we mark National Hepatitis Testing Day and build on the momentum of National Women's Health Week, last week, by helping to increase awareness about hepatitis B and hepatitis C among women, including by preventing mother-to-child transmission. We also share an overview of the activities that New York State, which last January implemented the nation's first hepatitis testing law, has engaged in to carry out and evaluate the new legislation. AIDS.gov reports.

We continue our series about the 2015 Heroes in the Struggle awardees, this week looking at our corporate winner, Janssen Therapeutics, Division of Janssen Products, LP.

We profile African American HIV University fellow Shalaurey Jones in Los Angeles. And we announce our 2015 BTAN Preconference and PrEP Summit at the USCA in September.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill