The notion that HIV was a “gay plague” - a moniker unfortunately attached to the virus by the gay press, who were the first to cover the disease in 1981 - dogged the response to the disease from outset. “It’s a rock and a hard place that we’re used to,” said Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC’s division of HIV/AIDS prevention, told STAT. Exclusive analysis of biotech, pharma, and the life sciences Learn More
