WHAT WE'RE READING

A cross-section of articles we've read this week about HIV/AIDS, STIs and a wide cross-section of structural and systemic factors impacting HIV/AIDS in Black communities.

Science

HIV Patients 'Getting Old Before Their Time'

[MELBOURNE] While combination antiretroviral therapy has meant that people with HIV can live longer lives, research shows that the virus makes fundamental changes to the immune system by increasing the risk of developing age-related conditions.

Testing & Diagnostics

Realism Needed About the Benefits and Risks of Taking Part in HIV Cure Studies

A significant proportion of people living with HIV would be willing to take part in a study towards a cure for HIV, research presented at the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) in Durban, South Africa last month shows. However some potential participants may not fully understand that taking part in an early-phase study is highly unlikely to afford any personal clinical benefit, but might have the potential to cause harm.

Treatment

GlaxoSmithKline Is Working on a Much Simpler HIV Treatment

The prognosis for HIV/AIDS has made remarkable progress over the last two decades, transforming from a death sentence to a largely manageable condition.

Telling JJ: A Year After Learning She Has HIV, An 11-Year-Old Has a Breakthrough

JJ stepped off the yellow school bus and, still giggling, waited for two friends. She had just finished her first day of seventh grade, and as the three girls walked up the street, they took stock of their new teachers, rules and classmates.

Miscellaneous

Clinton Pushed LGBT Rights, Despite Foundation's Anti-Gay Donors

The Clinton Foundation has come intense media scrutiny partly as a result of donations it received from countries with anti-LGBT laws and questions of "pay-for-play" at the State Department, but LGBT advocates are defending the organization, asserting it has worked to advance human rights.

Microaggression and Bias in the HIV Community -- and What We Can Do About It

Have you ever had that experience where someone says something that was meant to be neutral, or funny or even complimentary, but it felt like a dig at your (or someone else's) race, gender, HIV status, sexuality or some other part of who they are?

Milwaukee, After the Fires

In mid-August Milwaukee experienced several days of unrest due to the police killing of 23-year-old Sylville Smith. Here, community leaders reflect on the before and after.

Obamacare Marketplaces Are in Trouble. What Can Be Done?

It has been a hard couple of weeks for Obamacare. The law's online marketplaces - where people were supposed to be able to easily shop for health insurance - have been suffering from high-profile defections and double-digit premium increases.

Obama to Guest-Edit Wired Magazine

It is perhaps only fitting that a president who rose to power by harnessing the internet would guest-edit one of the nation's leading technology and science magazines on the way out.

Race and Racism in the 2016 Campaign

Washington (CNN) - Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a bigot.

Clinton argued that Trump was normalizing white nationalism

READ: How NOLA's Housing Crisis Caught Up to Big Freedia

The New Orleans bounce music icon and reality TV star received a sentence of three years probation and a fine of $35,000 for Section 8 voucher fraud. A new Pitchfork article examines the housing problems that underwrote Big Freedia's conviction.