by Mark S. King | Apr 29, 2019 | My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
My first job in AIDS in the 1980s was at the Los Angeles Shanti Foundation, an organization that provided companions for the dying. When our founding director, Daniel P. Warner, retired from the organization, the final candidates for his job met with the full staff... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 23, 2019 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
I’m a Southerner, first and foremost. We love beauty pageants and drag queens. So, the new video series Anal About My Health is right up my (ahem) alley. Produced by MPACT (Global Men’s Health and Human Rights), the cheeky series is based on the actual life... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 2, 2019 | My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Advocates pressuring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to claim royalties from sales of ‘Truvada as PrEP’ report “strong interest” in congressional hearings on the growing controversy, based on visits to the Hill today between HIV advocates and... 
by Mark S. King | Mar 30, 2019 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
You are going to read this story and think it is too outrageous to be true. You would be wrong. And, especially if you are an HIV advocate attending AIDS Watch in Washington, DC, this week, you must demand that our elected officials answer for it. Here’s the... 
by Mark S. King | Mar 17, 2019 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
(The HIV community was dealt a sad blow this week when it was announced that the iconic non-profit HIV treatment advocacy organization, Project Inform, will end its programs. Project Inform’s Director of Research Advocacy, David Evans, has been working with the... 
by Mark S. King | Mar 5, 2019 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
(This nuanced press release from Treatment Action Group addresses the “another person cured of AIDS” story far better that I ever could. — Mark) New York, March 4, 2019 – Treatment Action Group (TAG) welcomes the report today of a possible long-term...
