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Not Just Gay Men: Honoring the Stories of Women With HIV 40 Years Later Courtesy of the subject This article is part of “AIDS Is 40. But It Really Isn’t,” a series of personal stories, news reports, and interviews that pushes back against commonly held narratives regarding the start of the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic. On June 2, the Today show released a six-minute video news report titled, “40 years since first AIDS cases, men living with HIV share their perspectives.” In it were old news clips from the early years of the epidemic showing imagery of hospitals, clinics, and ill-appearin...

Biden Is Currently Facing 3 Epidemics May 25, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden gestures during his remarks, as Vice President Kamala Harris looks on, before a signing ceremony for the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in the East Room of the White House on May 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The legendary American singer Ray Charles crooned in “Georgia on My Mind” that “The road leads back to you.” And he was right. In November 2020, during the presidential election, people across the nation looked on to see Georgia’s ballots come in. And Georgia people delivered. Their votes confirmed then–Demo...

Virginia Proves HIV Criminalization Laws Are Harder to Repeal Than They Should Be April 21, 2021 Deirdre Johnson was among advocates living with HIV in Virginia who just got the state’s criminalization law softened. Courtesy of Tyler Studio/Atlanta Advocates who’ve long fought to repeal outdated laws in more than 30 states that criminalize people for having sex without disclosing their HIV status experienced mixed emotions when Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on April 1 signed a bill into law that replaces the state’s old one. On the happy side, the new law requires that accusers prove thei...

Joseph Sonnabend, Brilliant Early AIDS Doctor, Would Treat Patients for Free Feb. 3, 2021 Simon Watney When it comes to legendary HIV/AIDS doctors, there are the big celebrated names, like Anthony Fauci, M.D., David Ho, M.D., and Mathilde Krim, Ph.D. And then there’s Joseph Sonnabend, M.D., a gay South African who left medical research work in London in the 1970s to treat sexually transmitted diseases in New York City gay men. He ended up becoming one of the city’s most important early treaters of AIDS, someone whose unusual linking of research and primary care led to the prolongation of ...