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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. When Sturdevant first tested positive for HIV in 2005, he didn’t seek treatment. He saw how care bolstered lives, but the federal government needed data to drive its approach to HIV. And policymakers ensured that almost everyone in the U.S.