Wednesday January 4, 2023; 6:25 PM EST
- Recalling his work with and in the face of Dr. Anthony Fauci during the early years of the H.I.V.-AIDS crisis, Peter Staley shares some lessons of activism, including having to push hard on institutions that are at least nominally charged with helping to solve the crisis. Staley also comments explicitly on the importance of having people with H.I.V. on all the committees guiding the medical research. Patient advocacy, having a seat at the table and a meaningful voice in the conversation, and not just one voice at one table, as well as pressing hard on institutions from outside and insisting that progressive changes not evaporate at the end of one person's term in office--these are some of the lessons in Staley's remembrance of Dr. Fauci's work in those years.#