Most Marketplace Customers Have New Filing Requirements This Tax Season

Enrolling in Obamacare

In addition to the normal thrills and chills of the income tax filing season, this year consumers will have the added excitement of figuring out how the health law figures in their 2014 taxes.

Viral Hepatitis Prevention Coordinators, a Vital CDC Program Helping to Achieve the Goals of the Viral Hepatitis Action Plan

John Ward, M.D., Director, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.5. Caption: Achim Jeremiah Howard

Viral Hepatitis Prevention Coordinators (VHPCs) are vital to the implementation of the nation's Action Plan for the Prevention, Care, & Treatment of Viral Hepatitis, and ultimately, achievement of 3 of the national goals of reducing viral hepatitis transmission and disease:

Staying Alive, as a Black Man

Trans Advocate and Mentor, Achim Jeremiah Howard, one of several men featured in Colorlines' "Life Cycles of Inequality"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQeP0oWSas#t=60

In May 2014, Colorlines began our Life Cycles of Inequity series. Over seven installmants, we have explored the ways in which inequity shapes the lives of black men, from high school forward. This week, we conclude the series with a hard, but necessary conversation about mortality.

In This Issue

After years at the CDC and, more recently, ONAP, Greg Millett has moved on to become vice president and director of public policy at amfAR. Here, we talk to him about ending HIV among MSM, one of the key populations that we must target in order to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in our generation.

Q&A: Greg Millett, Vice President and Director of Public Policy at amfAR

Gregorio Millett, Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of National AIDS Policy

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2010, Black gay men ages 13-24 accounted for 4,800 new HIV infections—more than twice as many as their White and Latino counterparts. Can community-based organizations administered and led by Black gay men, such as Us Helping Us in Washington, D.C.—which was cited this fall during the White House Briefing on Obamacare and the LGBT Community for its high rates of Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment—help reverse the trend?