New 'San Francisco Principles' Turn the Spotlight on HIV Long-Term Survivors
Kevin Zhou
It started during the 2020 International AIDS Conference. Normally a massive in-person gathering of tens of thousands, the weeklong meeting instead became virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We realized our experience with HIV and AIDS is kind of unique,” said HIV/AIDS advocate and long-term survivor Vincent Crisostomo. In online presentation after online presentation, Crisostomo and fellow advocate Hank Trout also began to realize something else: a lack of perspectives from long-term HIV/AIDS survivors.
After the conference, following in the footsteps of the Denver Principles of 1983, Crisostomo—a program manager for the Elizabeth Taylor 50-Plus Network—and Trout—a senior editor for