Someone really needs to ask Dr. Fauci why he hates safe, effective, inexpensive generic drugs and ask him why he insists on speculation in the absence of evidence.
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Virginia Proves HIV Criminalization Laws Are Harder to Repeal Than They Should Be
April 21, 2021
Deirdre Johnson was among advocates living with HIV in Virginia who just got the state’s criminalization law softened.
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Advocates who’ve long fought to repeal outdated laws in more than 30 states that criminalize people for having sex without disclosing their HIV status experienced mixed emotions when Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on April 1 signed a bill into law that replaces the state’s old one.
On the happy side, the new law requires that accusers prove their sex partner’s intent to transmit HIV as well as their own actual transmission and diagnosis. Those changes set a new legal bar for accusers that’s nearly impossible to scale. The previous law only required proof of intent, putting the burden of proof on the partner living with HIV. Yet, on the bad side, the new law still classifies intent to transmit plus actual transmission as a felon
Joseph Sonnabend, Brilliant Early AIDS Doctor, Would Treat Patients for Free
Feb. 3, 2021
Simon Watney
When it comes to legendary HIV/AIDS doctors, there are the big celebrated names, like Anthony Fauci, M.D., David Ho, M.D., and Mathilde Krim, Ph.D. And then there’s Joseph Sonnabend, M.D., a gay South African who left medical research work in London in the 1970s to treat sexually transmitted diseases in New York City gay men. He ended up becoming one of the city’s most important early treaters of AIDS, someone whose unusual linking of research and primary care led to the prolongation of many lives as well as the start of two important organizations, amfAR and ACRIA.
Joseph Sonnabend, Early Force in Fight Against AIDS, Dies at 88
At the epicenter of the epidemic in New York City, he was a pioneer researcher who, as a clinician, also made house calls.
Dr. Joseph Sonnabend in 2014. As both a physician and a researcher, he was one of the most important figures in the fight against AIDS, if also one of the most unheralded.Credit.Simon Watney
Published Jan. 30, 2021Updated Feb. 1, 2021
When he was growing up in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in the 1930s and ’40s, Joseph Sonnabend would watch his mother, a physician, make house calls in the middle of the night and talk with patients on the phone at all hours. He didn’t want to follow that path, but he did study medicine and become a medical researcher, working alongside Nobel laureates in England on virology and immunology.