by Mark S. King | May 22, 2019 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
Fainting is weird, especially the third time it happened during one weekend. By that time, I knew enough to grab a safe spot – the front steps of the house, I had been admiring the blooms in the courtyard – before the queasy rush that had suddenly consumed me would...
by Mark S. King | May 10, 2019 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Gilead Sciences, the pharmaceutical that makes Truvada, the only FDA-approved drug for PrEP, is having a great week in the public relations department. First, Gilead announced they were surrendering their patent for Truvada a year early, and now Federal...
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...