From: NYTimes.com To: [email protected] Subject: The New York Times Magazine: America's Hidden H.I.V. Epidemic Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 22:04:26 +0000 View in Browser Add to your address book. ; ,1111he New York limes The New York Times Friday. June 9. 2017 NYTimes.com "I was weak, had a fever of to3, couldn't even keep down water," Cedric Sturdevant recalled. Fifty-two years old, he has shared the story of his own H.I.V. illness over and over in his improvised role as visiting nurse, motivational coach and father figure to a growing number of young gay men and transgender women suffering from H.I.V. and AIDS in Jackson, Miss. For this week's cover article, Linda Villarosa reports on America's hidden H.I.V. epidemic: Black gay and bisexual men have a higher rate of infection than any country in the world. Using public-health data, policy and financial research, and interviews with experts and activists, Villarosa examines the history of how the AIDS crisis first took hold decades ago, the advances in lifesaving treatment and how fateful decisions along the way led to one of the nation's most shameful public-health failures. It's "a present that looks like the past," she writes — "but only for some." Elsewhere in the magazine, Jesse Baron profiles Andrew Left, who hunts for corporate fraud and gets rich doing it. Elisabeth Zerofsky writes about a mostly Muslim suburb of Paris where a new political party is emerging. And Annalisa Quinn writes about how the "witch hunt," which once made a scapegoat of the defenseless, has become a complaint of the powerful. Happy reading, Jake Silverstein Editor in Chief EFTA00681579