Testing Together, now under way in Chicago and Atlanta, Georgia, takes an unusual approach: It encourages gay male couples to get tested together and hear their results together. After delivering the results, a counselor talks with the couple about what to do next, including agreements they may want to make with each other about sex and health.

We have recently learned of the passing of the Rev. Richard Younge. At the national level, Father Younge served as president of the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition (NEAC), a member of the General Convention’s Commission on HIV/AIDS, and a board member of the Episcopal Society for Ministry in Higher Education (ESMHE). Quoting Fr. Young: “My ministry has been quite intentional for the diocese in all its diversity and I would want it to be presented as such.”