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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. He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. He saw how care bolstered lives, but the federal government needed data to drive its approach to HIV. He has taken on the role of dad or uncle to many.