In This Issue

 This week we begin the first in a series about the 2016 Fellows of the African American HIV University by highlighting the work of Texas-based HIV and reproductive-justice advocate Mukamtagara Jendayi, cofounder of the Afiya Center, which serves North Texas women of color.

We also run a piece from our friends at Kaiser Health News about 35-year-old Miami internist Hansel Tookes. Tookes's relentless advocacy for needle exchange helped push Florida's legislature to approve that public-health measure, recently signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott, making Miami-Dade's the first legal needle-exchange program in the Southern United States.

The Obama administration has begun to reach out to Millennials in preparation for Open Enrollment. And Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th about mass incarceration has premiered on Netflix and in some theaters around the nation. Earlier this summer we reported on the connection between mass incarceration and the HIV epidemic in Black America.

Finally, this week in Chicago, Congressman Danny Davis, Ambassador Deborah Birx, local clergy, the Black Treatment Advocates Network (BTAN), and many partner organizations are coming together for a four-day convening about ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Windy City, including the Black AIDS Institute's AIDS 2016 Update on the research presented in July at the International AIDS Conference in South Africa. If you are in the Chicago area, we invite you to join us. Read on for more information.

Yours in the struggle,

Phill