Sexual Health Empowerment For Trans People Highlighted in New Videos

Sexual options for trans people
Outshine NW and Project Inform announce the launch of two new videos promoting personal empowerment in sexual health decisions among transgender women and transgender men who have sex with men (TMSM).
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Five Health Issues Presidential Candidates Aren't Talking About — But Should Be

Overlooked topics
References to the Affordable Care Act — sometimes called Obamacare — have been a regular feature of the current presidential campaign season.
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In This Issue

Over the past five years in the United States, the rates of new HIV infections and HIV transmissions have declined; however, these improvements have fallen short of the goals set in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and have not occurred among Black gay and bisexual men. As we have cautioned here many times in the past, scaling up care and treatment isn't enough. Read on to learn more about a recent analysis of CDC data and what steps the researchers recommend for the future.
HIV Decline Falls Short of U.S. 5-Year Goal

Robert Bonacci, fourth-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Although HIV infection and transmission rates in the United States declined over the past five years, they fell short of White House targets, a new study finds.
Hepatitis C Kills More Americans than Any Other Infectious Disease

Jonathan Mermin, M.D., director of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Deaths associated with hepatitis C reached an all-time high of 19,659 in 2014, according to preliminary surveillance data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Read more: Hepatitis C Kills More Americans than Any Other Infectious Disease