‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 25, 2025
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. Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS. His mother slept at his hospital bedside for two weeks: “She said, ‘God got you.’”
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