by Mark S. King | Sep 10, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Oh, USCHA, how we love you. You are the Grand Hostess of the HIV/AIDS community, and nowhere else can anyone working for, volunteering in, or living with the reality of HIV find so many beloved allies, frontline workers, and friends. And sometimes, well, we...
by Mark S. King | Aug 31, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Monkeypox, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
In the center of the latest maelstrom at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the last week – on the heels of a deadly mass shooter who killed a police officer and shot out multiple CDC office windows – has been Demetre Daskalakis, MD, a career...
by Mark S. King | Aug 26, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Paul Kawata has been such a fixture of the HIV arena – literally since the epidemic began in the early 1980s – that his retirement from NMAC as Executive Director feels as unbelievable as it is inevitable. In a remarkable conversation between Paul and myself...
by Mark S. King | Jul 9, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Todd Heywood, known by his friends as simply “Heywood,” has been an outspoken HIV survivor, renowned investigative journalist, and queer advocate for most of his life. So it should come as no surprise that when Heywood got a cancer diagnosis last year, he has used it...
by Mark S. King | Jun 27, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
As press conferences go, the one held this week for the #SaveHIVFunding effort by the national advocacy group PrEP4All was a doozy. But not for the usual reasons. There were no shocking announcements from the slate of public health advocates and workers. There were no...