by Mark S. King | Jun 2, 2016 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The issues of race, gender and privilege crackled through the recent HIV Is Not A Crime (II) conference like a live wire, throwing sparks at every turn. From the main stage to the hallways, attendees called out white classism, the utter failure of the criminal... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 27, 2016 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The college student had real concern in his eyes when he asked me a question during a recent presentation at American University. “Isn’t it true,” he asked, “that the HIV epidemic continues because people who know they are positive keep infecting other people?” It is... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 18, 2016 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
When Sadiq Ali heard about a clinical trial for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) happening in the United Kingdom in 2013, the athletic 26-year old hesitated. He worried about what starting PrEP might say to people about his sexual behavior. The stigma he associated... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 12, 2016 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
Stigma is insidiously quiet. It is conjured in the mind, born of discomfort and fear, and then it is projected at “the other” among us. It judges them and isolates them. And it happens without a sound. Stigma lets us take comfort in seeing things in others about... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 6, 2016 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
In a profoundly troubling lawsuit against the City of Baton Rouge and local HIV/AIDS non-profits, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has forced federal funds to be withheld while AHF continues their litigious temper tantrum over not receiving a Ryan White Care Act...
