“Monkeypox and H.I.V. have collided,” a C.D.C. researcher said. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome”
Why Monkeypox Vaccine Shortage May Threaten the Immunocompromised
By Gotham Rex on August 5, 2022
People with H.I.V. and other immune-system problems may need the full two-dose regimen, researchers say. But the shots, particularly second doses, are hard to come by. Source: New York Times
H.I.V. Infections Remain Persistently High, U.N. Reports
By Gotham Rex on July 27, 2022
More than 1.5 million people worldwide, many of them young girls, were infected amid pandemic disruptions in 2021. Source: New York Times
Hunter Reynolds, Artist Who Dressed Up AIDS, Dies at 62
By Gotham Rex on July 3, 2022
After he learned he was H.I.V. positive, he began making art — often performing as his gown-wearing alter ego — that told stories about the condition. Source: New York Times
Jeffrey Escoffier, Health Official and Scholar of Gay Theory, Dies at 79
By Gotham Rex on June 25, 2022
He wrote extensively on gay identity and history, but New Yorkers knew a different side of his work: his campaigns on H.I.V. and other health issues. Source: New York Times
The Secrets Ed Koch Carried
By Gotham Rex on May 7, 2022
To many New Yorkers, he was their brash and blustery mayor. But friends are now describing the private strain endured by a public man laboring to conceal his sexual orientation. Source: New York Times
Stephen Karpiak, Pathbreaking H.I.V. Researcher, Dies at 74
By Gotham Rex on November 7, 2021
His work helped change people’s attitude toward older people living with the virus that causes AIDS. Source: New York Times
How to Survive a Plague, Part 2
By Gotham Rex on July 23, 2021
The resistance to Covid vaccinations is eerily familiar to those who lived through the early days of the AIDS crisis. Source: New York Times
Ganga Stone, Who Gave Sustenance to AIDS Patients, Dies at 79
By Gotham Rex on June 4, 2021
At the height of the AIDS epidemic, she started God’s Love We Deliver, a charity that brought hot meals to people who were too ill to cook. Source: New York Times
Patrick O’Connell, 67, Dies; Raised Awareness of AIDS With Art
By Gotham Rex on May 3, 2021
As the founding director of Visual AIDS, he helped develop campaigns including “Day Without Art” and, most notably, the ubiquitous red ribbon. Source: New York Times
Joseph Sonnabend, Early Force in Fight Against AIDS, Dies at 88
By Gotham Rex on January 30, 2021
At the epicenter of the epidemic in New York City, he was a pioneer researcher who, as a clinician, also made house calls. Source: New York Times
New York Has a Cameo in ‘The Crown.’ Here’s What Really Happened.
By Gotham Rex on December 13, 2020
Princess Diana visited the city in 1989, a trip featured on the Netflix series and remembered fondly by the people she met. Source: New York Times
Black Voguers Populate Billboards in a Times Square ‘Midnight Moment’
By Gotham Rex on November 29, 2020
The opportunity to stage “Black Magic” in Times Square “was a great proposition to do something transgressive,” said the artist Rashaad Newsome. Source: New York Times
Frederick Weston, Outsider Artist Who Was Finally Let In, Dies at 73
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2020
For decades he made his art in dingy Manhattan hotel rooms, living hand-to-mouth, hoping for his big break. It finally arrived, just a few years before his death. Source: New York Times
Dr. Joyce Wallace, Pioneering AIDS Physician, Dies at 79
By Gotham Rex on October 27, 2020
Among the first to study the disease in the 1980s, she tried to stop its spread among thousands of New York City prostitutes. Source: New York Times