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.  

Men living with HIV enjoy a diminished risk of prostate cancer that is not an apparent result of differences in screening or other various risk factors evaluated in a recent study, aidsmap reports. Publishing their findings in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, researchers studied 17,424 HIV-positive and 182,799 HIV-negative men enrolled in care at Kaiser Permanente (KP).  

Tweaking a protein expressed by most liver cancer cells has enabled scientists to make a vaccine that is exceedingly effective at preventing the disease in mice. Liver cancer is among the fastest-growing and deadliest cancers in the United States with a 17 percent three-year survival rate. Vaccines help direct the immune system to attack invaders by showing it a representative substance, called an antigen, that the body will recognize as foreign, in this case, AFP for liver cancer.  

WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 2 million people who got health insurance under President Barack Obama's law have data discrepancies that could jeopardize coverage for some, a government document shows.

Health care advocates said on Thursday that four insurers offering plans in the new federal marketplace discriminated against people with H.I.V. or AIDS by requiring them to pay high out-of-pocket costs for drugs to treat H.I.V., including generic medications.  

A complaint being filed with the federal government says some Florida health insurance companies are discriminating against people with HIV/AIDS.

The Orange Is the New Black star on politics, happiness and why genitalia isn't destiny.  

More than four years after enactment of the health law, six in 10 Americans say neither they nor their families have been affected by the sweeping measure, according to a poll released Friday.  

(MCT) SEATTLE - Julie Lewis remembers every last detail. The moving box she was carrying, the phone call, the doctor on the line telling her, "You better sit down."  

WASHINGTON - President Obama's new plan to fight climate change depends heavily on states' devising individual approaches to meeting goals set in the nation's capital, a strategy similar to the one he used to expand health care, often with rocky results.  

Eight million people have signed up for private, often subsidized health insurance under Affordable Care Act, President Obama said this month. Millions more obtained new coverage through the Medicaid program for the poor.