In This Issue

When she was a teenager, Patrice Curry discovered that her mother had HIV. This week, this cast member of the popular VH1 reality show Basketball Wives tells us about how learning of her mother's diagnosis and experiencing her subsequent death from AIDS during Patrice's young adulthood changed Curry's entire life. Read on to learn about her empowering messages for HIV-positive parents.

Greater Than AIDS Ambassador and AIDS.gov blogger Deondre Moore reached out to PLWHA who older than him to ask what insight they could share with him—or a younger version of themselves.

The federal government is improving its efforts to reduce HIV risk and improve health among transgender people. In this issue we learn about several new activities the government has underway or is about to begin. And while faith communities are essential to the effort to end HIV/AIDS, the feds are just now involving religious communities in the national response to hepatitis. Our friends at AIDS.gov report.

As we mark the close of National Minority Health Month, we want to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Office of Minority Health.

Finally, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island vote today. Don't forget to head to the polls to make your voice heard!

Yours in the struggle,

Phill