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Seeking peer review after expansion

• File:Symbol b class.svg Canadian AIDS Society — Seeking peer review after 90% expansion and addition of credible citations
• File:Symbol c class.svg Nancy Brooks Brody (1962–2023), created by Nayyn as part of the 2025 #1day1woman and Revolutionary women article drives from Women in Red.
  • American artist and activist, cofounder of fierce pussy and ACT UP member; exhibited in MoMA as a part of Greater New York, 11 Oct 2015 – 7 Mar 2016. Her website: www.nancybrooksbrody.com; Oral history interview at Smithsonian; Interview from Visual AIDS; Profile at Mutual Art. Obit: ArtForum, Art News, Justin Vivian Bond (on Instagram)
• File:Symbol c class.svg Gina Brown (born 1965 or 1966), created by Nayyn as part of the 2025 #1day1woman article drive from Women in Red.
  • Social worker and community organiser, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, LinkedIn, HIV PJA, The Well Project. Interviews: Vox, NOLA Times-Picayune, HIV Positive magazine, HIVE Online (video). Note, this is Gina Brown MSW, not Gina Brown MD from NIH Office of AIDS Research. Note: She is not (Q39274495).
• File:Symbol start class.svg Linda Scruggs (born c. 1964), created by SDGB1217 as part of the 2025 #1day1woman and Alphabet run: K & L article drives from Women in Red.
  • Co-exec-director of US service organisation Ribbon, founding member of Positive Women's Network USA, founding member of US National Black Woman HIV Network. Mentioned by Barack Obama when launching his National HIV/AIDS Strategy; profiled in Poz in 2012, in Plus in 2015; mentioned in The Lancet and Poz, quoted by UNAIDS on 40th anniversary of Denver Principles. Biogs on LinkedIn, Ribbon and The Well Project.

Biographies

To raise to GA status

These are articles that should only need a little effort to reach Good Article status. Once they achieve GA-status, articles that have not already appeared on the Main Page in the Did You Know? section can be nominated; these are highlighted with ?, linking to the nomination page.

• File:Symbol b class.svg? Peter Allen (musician) (1944–1992) — Australian singer-songwriter, Liza Minnelli's first husband
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Arthur Ashe (1943–1993) — African-American tennis player who died of AIDS after a blood transfusion.
• File:Symbol c class.svg? Amanda Blake (1929–1989) — American actress
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Perry Ellis (1940–1986) — American fashion designer.
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Anthony Fauci (born 1940) — American clinician; director of NIAID (1984–2022), Chief Medical Advisor to the President (2021–2022). Very little mention of his role in the early US AIDS Crisis and the controversies surrounding it. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his B-class biography, other sources include NYT tribute on Fauci's retirement by ACT UP alumnus Peter Staley
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Halston (1932–1990) — American fashion designer.
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Fran Lebowitz (born 1950) — American writer
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Liberace (1919–1987) — American pianist.
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Keith Haring (1958–1990) — American artist.
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Rock Hudson (1925–1985) — American actor; one of the first “household names” to die of AIDS; good biography with good section about his illness and death, but little mention of how much the Reagans refused to help him gain treatment in Paris; see Buzzfeed
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Derek Jarman (1942–1994) — British filmmaker
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Simon Nkoli (1957–1998) — South African activist
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) — Soviet ballet dancer, defected in 1961
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Robert Reed (1932–1992) — American actor best known for playing the patriarch Mike in The Brady Bunch; died of bowel cancer with his HIV status listed as a contributing factor on his death certificate.
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968) — German fine-art photographer living in London; no "Personal life" section and no mention of his own HIV status. See interview with Dazed.
• File:Symbol b class.svg? Pedro Zamora (1972–1994) — Cuban-American reality star on The Real World, the first out, HIV+ man to appear on mainstream television and the first ever same-sex commitment ceremony

Needing greater expansion, or work on a specific area

• File:Symbol start class.svg Donald Acheson (1926–2010) — British clinician, Chief Medical Officer for England, 1983–1991; biography doesn't mention his work on the Early AIDS Crisis at all
• File:Symbol stub class.svg Lawrence K. Altman — American journalist at The New York Times, wrote the first news article about AIDS; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• File:Symbol c class.svg Arthur J. Ammann (1936–2021) — American pediatric immunologist at UCSF and expert in infantile cytomegalovirus, who realised the US blood supply was contaminated with HIV; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague. Global Strategies obit, "A conversation with 3 viruses", with Ammann's thoughts on Asian Flu, Covid-19 and AIDS, San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series, volume 3, review of his 2017 Lethal Decisions: The Unnecessary Deaths of Women and Children from HIV/AIDS, 2017 interview with Journey with Jesus
• File:Symbol c class.svg Jane Anderson (physician) (born 1952) — British physician; co-founded BHIVA, chair National AIDS Trust; championed women in HIV
• File:Symbol start class.svg John-Manuel Andriote (born 1958) — American journalist and author
• File:Symbol start class.svg Elizabeth Balgobin (1965/66–2024) — British charity leader, CEO of Blackliners, the UK's first organisation for Black people affected by HIV and AIDS, trustee of National Emergencies Trust, head of ED&I at the Chartered Institute of Fundraising; previously founding chair at Voice4Change England and grant officer at BBC Children in Need. Biogs: National Emergencies Trust. Interviews: On (her own) Mental Health, On Covid 2nd-order effects, On honours, Career retrospective (podcast), In Cause & Effect on Medium. Obits: National Emergencies Trust, Third Sector magazine, Civil Society magazine, short thread from Marc Thompson (with a mention of a podcast, but you'd need to listen to all 4h43m or 5h54m to find the right interview)
• File:Symbol start class.svg Jacqui Banaszynski (born 1952) — American journalist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and now a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her 3-part series "AIDS in the Heartland", humanising AIDS by profiling a rural couple, one of whom became the 125th Minnesotan to die of AIDS on July 25, 1987, at the age of 37. About the series; parts 1, 2, 3.
• File:Symbol c class.svg Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 1947) — French Nobel Laureate, co-discoverer of HIV with only a C-class biography, despite being of Top-importance
• File:Symbol c class.svg Christopher Bell (scholar) (1974–2009) — American scholar of disability studies working in the area of HIV/AIDS, race and ethnicity
• File:Symbol start class.svg Richard Berkowitz (born 1955) — American sex worker and activist from New York, co-author of How to Have Sex in an Epidemic; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• File:Symbol stub class.svg Mike Beuttler (1940–1988) — British Formula 1 driver, only known LGBTQ+ driver to have raced at that level; died of AIDS in 1988
• File:Symbol start class.svg Norbert Bischofberger (born 1954), Austrian clinician, chief scientific officer at Gilead, involved in development of tenofovir disoproxil, Truvada and (unrelated to HIV) sofosbuvir and Tamiflu; see article
• File:Symbol c class.svg Virginia Bottomley (born 1948) — British politician. Nothing about her tenure as Secretary of State for Health 1992–1995, when she cut funding for HIV and campaigners protested using "I'm an evil Tory bigot", an anagram of her name: see The Guardian, West Yorkshire Queer Stories, Wellcome
• File:Symbol c class.svg Hydeia Broadbent (1984–2024) — American activist, 2024 POZ icon. Refs: POZ icons 2024
• File:Symbol b class.svg George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) — US President during the early Crisis years. No mention of his approach to the AIDS Crisis (or lack thereof).
• File:Symbol c class.svg Gia Carangi (1960–1986) — American model, "world's first supermodel"; one of the first famous women to die of AIDS (having contracted HIV through her IV drug use).
• File:Symbol c class.svg Cecilia Chung (鍾紹琪, born 1965) — Hong Kong–American activist and civil rights leader, first trans and first Asian director of San Francisco Pride, SF Health Commissioner, PACHA commissioner, 2024 POZ icon. Refs: POZ icons 2024
• File:Symbol stub class.svg Christopher Coe (1953–1994) — American novelist
• File:Symbol start class.svg Emmanuelle Cosse (born 1974) — French politician, activist and former president of ACT UP-Paris
• File:Symbol start class.svg Spencer Cox (activist) (1968–2012) — American activist at ACT UP New York and Treatment Action Group who helped design the clinical trials that led to the introduction of protease inhibitors. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his Start-class biography.
• File:Symbol start class.svg James W. Curran — American clinician, head of the AIDS taskforce at the CDC during the early AIDS Crisis. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his Start-class biography.
• File:Symbol start class.svg Demetre Daskalakis (born c. 1973) — Greek-American physician and activist; NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2014–2020), CDC Director of Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (from 21 Dec 2020). HIV.gov announcement, CDC announcement, GMHC announcement, HIV Plus mag article, NBC article Ellines biog
• File:Symbol start class.svg Dennis deLeon (1948–2009) — American activist, president of the Latino Commission on AIDS, posthumously 2024 POZ icon. Refs: POZ icons 2024
• File:Symbol start class.svg George Deukmejian (1928–2018) — American politician, Governor of California (1983–1991); only a cursory mention of the Early AIDS Crisis in his biog. He's mentioned in the last episode of the 2023 miniseries Fellow Travelers, where 2 characters try to persuade Deukmejian not to veto a bill regarding healthcare for PWAIDS
• File:Symbol c class.svg Martin Duberman (born 1930) — American historian, award-winning author of 2014 Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the battlefield of AIDS
• File:Symbol c class.svg Gaëtan Dugas (1953–1984) — Canadian flight-attendant, long misidentified as "patient zero" of the North American AIDS Crisis; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• File:Symbol c class.svg Charles Farthing (1953–2014) — New Zealand physician. Cofounded first HIV service in UK at St. Stephen's Hospital, London; clinical trials for thymosin, AZT and foscarnet; founding chair of APPG HIV/AIDS; medical director at AIDS Healthcare Foundation during protease revolution impacts, 2001–2007. Guardian obit
• File:Symbol c class.svg Richard Feachem (born 1947) — British clinician, HIV/AIDS researcher
• File:Symbol start class.svg Nigel Finch (1949–1995) — English filmmaker. A little more in the foreword to the 2021 reissue of Simon Garfield's The End of Innocence, excerpted in full for Esquire; his boyfriend Rupert Haselden, whose interview forms the foreword, might also be notable?
• File:Symbol c class.svg David France (writer) (born 1959) — American writer and filmmaker, Stonewall Book Award winner
• File:Symbol c class.svg Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler (born 1938) — English politician, Secretary of State for Health and Social Services during the start of the AIDS crisis in the UK, his Start-class biography makes little reference to the impact he had on the British government having a response, let alone its content. Was instrumental in UK govt sending a leaflet to every household in the UK in February 1987, the biggest AIDS-related public health campaign in the world at the time. [Edits made]
• File:Symbol c class.svg Gao Yaojie (高耀潔, 1927–2023) — Chinese gynecologist and AIDS activist who revealed China's AIDS epidemic, including the Bloodhead scandal due to the Plasma Economy in Henan. Articles: Christian Science Monitor, Human Rights Watch; biogs: Vital Voices, China.org.cn, Institute for the Study of Human Rights; obits: The Guardian, South China Morning Post, NPR, Time, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, France24, Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation
• File:Symbol start class.svg Elizabeth Glaser (1947–1994) — American actor and AIDS campaigner after having contracted HIV from a blood transfusion in childbirth; her daughter Ariel (1981–1988) was infected through breastfeeding and her son Jake (born 1984) was infected in utero is an elite controller with the mutation CCR5-Δ32. Her Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has reached an estimated 20 million women worldwide, testing 17 million, and enrolling more the 2.2 million in its HIV care and support program: Plus
• File:Symbol start class.svg Gregg Gonsalves (born 1963) — American activist and epidemiologist; cofounder of the Treatment Action Group, associate professor at Yale School of Public Health and 2018 MacArthur Fellow. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague and in his MacArthur biog. He's also been very active in the Covid-19 pandemic.
• File:Symbol start class.svg Vincent Hanley (1954–1987) — Irish radio DJ; one of the first men to die of AIDS in Ireland. A little more information from Irish Queer Archive on Instagram.
• File:Symbol c class.svg Mark Harrington (born 1958 or 1959) — American activist and researcher; cofounder of the Treatment Action Group and 1997 MacArthur Fellow. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague and in his MacArthur biog.
• File:Symbol start class.svg Terry Higgins (1945–1982) — Welsh clerk and DJ; one of the first men to die of AIDS in the United Kingdom, Terence Higgins Trust, the UK's biggest service organisation, was founded in his memory
• File:Symbol c class.svg Amber L. Hollibaugh (1946–2023) — American writer, filmmaker and political activist. Sources: Google Scholar; sources for The Heart of the Matter: IMDb, TCMDb (US only), PBS, ACT UP NYC part 1 and part 2, Variety review
• File:Symbol stub class.svg Victor Hugo (artist and window dresser) (1942–1993) — assistant to Andy Warhol, boyfriend of Halston
• File:Symbol start class.svg Peter Hujar (1934–1987) — American photographer
• File:Symbol c class.svg Sheila Jackson Lee (1950–2024) — American politician. No mention of her work for PLWHIV. Gregg Gonsalves mentioned it in his skeet about her death; KHOU obit (US only); Yale Daily News obit
• File:Symbol start class.svg Margaret Johnson (scientist) — British clinician; cofounded BHIVA, first dedicated HIV doctor at the Royal Free Hospital; championed women in HIV
• File:Symbol c class.svg Ed Koch (1924–2013) — American politician; Mayor of New York 1978–1990, during the height of the AIDS Crisis How to Survive a Plague offers the potential for expansion about this aspect of his mayoralty.
• File:Symbol start class.svg Mathilde Krim (1926–2018) — Swiss-American researcher; early AIDS researcher and funder of Joseph Sonnabend; cofounder of amfAR; held a press conference to attempt to calm the argument between Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier over the discovery of HIV. Mentioned in How to Survive a Plague. Obits: NYT, Peter Staley, AIDS History project, TAG
• File:Symbol stub class.svg Josh Kruger (1984–2023) — US activist. Coverage includes profile on injectables in Poz, 2023
• File:Symbol c class.svg Dennis Levy (born 1948) — American activist; CEO and founder of Black and Latino AIDS Coalition.
• File:Symbol start class.svg James O. Mason (born 1930) — American clinician; CDC director and US Surgeon General during the AIDS Crisis; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• File:Symbol start class.svg Stewart McKinney (politician) (1931–1987) — American politician; Republican representative for CT-04 (1971–1987); coined the phrase "too big to fail"
• File:Symbol c class.svg Rodger McFarlane (1955–2009) — American activist; first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis and co-founder of ACT UP NYC; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• File:Symbol c class.svg David Mixner (1946–2024) — American activist and author. ITN nomination for his death was declined, due to too much maintenance required. Obits: CovidHealth.com
• File:Symbol b class.svg Paul Monette (1945–1995) — American author, poet and activist based in West Hollywood
• File:Symbol c class.svg Luc Montagnier (born 1932) — French immunologist; Nobel Laureate co-discoverer of HIV with only a C-class biography, despite being of Top-importance
• File:Symbol c class.svg Alan Murphy (1953–1989) — British guitarist with Kate Bush, Go West and Level 42
• File:Symbol start class.svg Ann Northrop (born 1948) — American author, active in ACT UP New York City. More information in Let the Record Show
• File:Symbol start class.svg Judith Peabody (1930–2010) — New York socialite and philanthropist, active fundraiser for Gay Men's Health Crisis, People With AIDS Coalition, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center and the development of an AIDS research laboratory at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
• File:Symbol stub class.svg Cindy Patton (born 1956) — American sociologist and historian specialising in the history of the AIDS epidemic
• File:Symbol start class.svg Mark Patton (both 1958) — American actor, first male scream queen as lead in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and subject of Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (which will be a useful ref, see Lee Mandelo's review)
• File:Symbol start class.svg Ron Penny AO (1936–2019) — Australian immunologist, made first AIDS diagnosis in Australia. Obit from JWire
• File:Symbol start class.svg John Preston (American author) (1945–1994) — American writer, editor and pornographer
• File:Symbol start class.svg Lisa Power (born 1954) — British LGBT and AIDS activist, cofounded Stonewall, policy director of Terrence Higgins Trust, ex-ILGA Secretary General, HIV policy officer in London during the early Crisis years
• File:Symbol start class.svg Ken Ramsauer (died 1983, aged 27) — American businessman; first person with AIDS to be subject of a national network television news special in the US, being interviewed by Geraldo Rivera on 20/20; see NYT obit
• File:Featured article star.svg Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) — US President during the early Crisis years. Section "Response to AIDS epidemic" is very brief and minimises his inaction; see Buzzfeed
• File:Featured article star.svg Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) — US First Lady during the early Crisis years. No mention of Rock Hudson or her inaction around AIDS; see Buzzfeed
• File:Symbol start class.svg Steve Rubell (1945–1989) — American nightclub owner and hotelier, founder of Studio 54, died of AIDS
• File:Symbol start class.svg Mark Schoofs — US journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize at the Village Voice for reporting on AIDS
• File:Symbol c class.svg Sarah Schulman (born 1958) — American novelist, playwright, historian and lesbian rights activist. Several of her written works are redlinked below. Good interview with Jacobin about Let the Record Show
• File:Symbol b class.svg Randy Shilts (1951–1994) — American journalist, author of Stonewall Book Award winner And the Band Played On; died of AIDS
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Joseph Sonnabend (1933–2021) — South African clinician. lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his GA-class biography, including his own bisexuality and sex life, his move to New York City and much of his work during the AIDS Crisis. Also, this interview with Patrick Strudwick has more about his background, his time in NYC and his interest in music and composition. It might be worth contacting Buzzfeed to see if they'll release any of their photos on an Open licence (though now he's dead that's less of a concern). NYT obit, Brian Deer Sunday Times piece from 1992.
• File:Symbol b class.svg Susan Sontag (1933–2004) — American writer and critic; very little about her and AIDS
• File:Symbol start class.svg Larry Speakes (1939–2014) — White House Press Secretary for most of the Reagan administration; very little about his jokes and repeated indifference to the AIDS Crisis. Refs: When AIDS was Funny, a short film via Vanity Fair; VF article 1 Dec 2015; Washington Post 1 Dec 2015; New York magazine Dec 2013; Vice 1 Dec 2015; Buzzfeed 2 Dec 2013; FT 7 Dec 2016
• File:Symbol stub class.svg Michael Staniforth (1942–1987) — British actor, known for Rentaghost
• File:Symbol start class.svg Sean Strub (born 1958) — American writer, activist and entrepreneur. Founder of POZ, 2024 POZ icon. Refs: POZ icons 2024
• File:Symbol stub class.svg Juan Suárez Botas (1958–1992) — Spanish illustrator and filmmaker; inspiration for Jonathan Demme to make Philadelphia. Stub is almost entirely based on his NYT obit; more about him in Rolling Stone interview with Demme.
• File:Symbol start class.svg Sandra Thurman — US public servant, director of ONAP under Bill Clinton, chief strategy officer at Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator and PEPFAR, senior advisor for strategy and development at CDC, director (and faculty member) at Rollins School of Public Health; honoured with an "Elizabeth Taylor Commitment to End AIDS award" in 2021. Biogs: Rollins SPH, Clinton White House, WebMD, Robert Carr Fund; Liz Taylor award: Variety, THR, ETAF; Clinton appointment: (Q48831839)[Edits made]
• File:Symbol start class.svg Tseng Kwong Chi (曾廣智, 1950–1990) — Hong-Kong-born American photographer, active in the East Village art scene, brother to Muna Tseng and frequent photographer of Keith Haring's work. Refs: NYT retrospective, Apple Daily retrospective (in Chinese), NYT obit, Visual AIDS biog. Artist's site (by sister): mid-length biog, longer biog
• File:Symbol c class.svg Urvashi Vaid (1958–2022) — Indian and American activist, lawyer and writer; ED of US National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and AIDS activist. Almost no mention of her work during the Early AIDS Crisis. Refs: Advocate obit, LA Blade obit, memorial thread from Sarah Schulman
• File:Symbol start class.svg Paul Volberding — American HIV/AIDS researcher, founded the first inpatient ward for people with AIDS in the San Francisco General Hospital; mentioned in several SF sources, including several of the references cited at Bobbi Campbell, such as Andriote 1999
• File:Symbol c class.svg Tom Waddell (1937–1987) — American doctor and decathlete; founder of the Gay Games. Article is pretty good, but needs better inline referencing
• File:Symbol start class.svg Mark Wainberg (1945–2017) — Canadian researcher; discovered 3TC, IAS president 1998–2000, founded JIAS in 2004. See POZ.com obit.
• File:Symbol start class.svg Edmund White (born 1940) — American novelist and biographer, co-founder of GMHC
• File:Symbol start class.svg Rupert Whitaker OBE (born 1963) — British psychiatrist, immunologist, and patient advocate; cofounder of Terrence Higgins Trust, ex-boyfriend of Terry Higgins
• File:Symbol start class.svg Phill Wilson — American activist. Former AIDS coordinator in LA, former cochair of the LA HIV Health Commission, founding president and CEO Black AIDS Institute, appointed to Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in 2010, 2024 POZ icon. Refs: POZ icons 2024

For creation

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• Prof Sir Michael W. Adler CBE FRCP (born 12 June 1939) — British GUM physician. Emeritus prof at Royal Free and University College Medical School; founded National AIDS Trust; founding editor AIDS (journal); founding member APPG HIV/AIDS; advisor to UK govt, UN, European Commission, WHO; involved in first sexual health and HIV strategy in England in 2001. Married to Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington. Refs include UCL biog, Who's Who?subscription required Companies House
• Gregg Alton, American lawyer; EVP Corporate and Medical Affairs at Gilead Sciences; see profile, NAACP article, @greggalton; File:Gregg Alton crop 2012 CHF HIV AIDS 058.jpg
• Robert Atkins (art historian) — American art historian, author and founder of Visual AIDS. Ref: Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders
• Duke Armstrong (1949–1988) — San Francisco lawyer, leatherman and Republican Party activist, president of the board of Concerned Republicans for Individual Rights. Sued on behalf of bathhouses closed during the early Crisis Years. Papers available offline at GLBT Historical Society. Mentioned in Leo Herrera's Fathers Project #4 (NSFW!), a fictional imagination of what might have been, without AIDS.
• Karen Beckerman — San Francisco (and now New York) obstetrician, authored first paper suggesting antiretroviral treatment would reduce transmission (IAS Conf 1998, abs 459, review). IAS profile, UKCAB training transcript, UCSF mag 15:42, HTB meeting review 2002, HTB paper review 2002, BBC. Mentioned in (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
• Lucy Bradley-Springer — American academic researcher, editor of J. Assoc. Nurses AIDS Care, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: UC Denver. Citations: PubMed, ResearchGate, AETC, OCLC WorldCat. Mentioned in (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
• Françoise Brun-Vézinet — French virologist who helped discover HIV; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• Ulysses Burley III — American doctor and religious leader, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, World Council of Churches, autobiog, GreatBlackSpeakers.com. Interviews: Black Collegian, NPR
• Alessandro Ceccarelli — Italian and British archæologist, head of LGBTQ+ policy at Welsh Govt, community leader at Fast Track Cymru, repeatedly named to Pinc List
• Michelle Collins-Ogle — American healthcare worker, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, PIDS video, Am Assoc HIV Med LinkedIn, BuzzFeed, Newsweek. Mentioned in (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
• Delores Dockrey (died 2020) — New Jersey activist and leader; died of Covid-19. See Poz 100 honouring and Poz.com obit
• Richard Dworkin — New York activist, boyfriend of Michael Callen; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• Darrel Ellis (1958–1992) — American artist, died shortly before a MoMA exhibition including his work. Poz.com article
• Roger Enlow (1948–2009) — American clinician; official AIDS liaison for New York City municipal government. Mentioned in How to Survive a Plague. obit
• Kitty Fischer (activist) (b. 1927) — Czechoslovak Auschwitz survivor saved by a gay prisoner. Oral history interviews: US Holocaust Museum, USC Shoah Foundation, EHRI
• Alvin Friedman-Kien — American dermatologist; coauthor of first paper linking AIDS and Kaposi's sarcoma; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague. See New York magazine feature and NYU biog. Mentioned in (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
• Gary Garrels — American art curator (formerly at MoMA, Dia Art Foundation and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and founder of Visual AIDS. Ref: Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders
• Prof Brian Gazzard — British HIV physician, with Dr Charles Farthing set up the UK's first HIV service at St. Stephen's Hospital, London; founding member APPG HIV/AIDS. Charles Farthing's obit, which he wrote, gives frank insight into the Early AIDS Crisis in the UK
• Eileen Glutzer — San Francisco nurse who appears in We Were Here. Articles: Cool Grey City of Love, Nature Medicine Blog, San Francisco Chronicle, Curating an Archive of Feelings: Tracing Lesbian Narratives Through the AIDS Crisis into 21st Century Queer Collections & Spaces
• Grissel Granados (born 1986) — Mexican/American healthcare worker, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, HIV Plus mag, LinkedIn. News: BuzzFeed, Newsweek
• Abderrahim el Habachi — Moroccan and Welsh activist and writer, Glitter Cymru, Fast Track Cardiff & Vale.
• John Hanning (born 1961) — American artist named to Out's OUT100 in 2017; author of Unfortunate Male (2015), creator of exhibition I Survived AIDS (2017). See also Visual AIDS: biog, review of Unfortunate Male; Printed Matter book review; book details
• Ronald Johnson (HIV activist) (born c. 1948) — American activist and public servant; first NYC citywide coordinator for AIDS policy (1992–1997), associate ED policy at GMHC (1997–2006), member of PACHA (1996–2001), VP policy & advocacy at AIDS United (2011? – 2017) As of June 2023 is chair of US PLWHIV Caucus; recognised by ETAF and others in 2018 (Desert Charities News); profiled in Plus in 2018, in POZ in 2021; quoted by The Body in 2019, Positive Women's Network in 2021, SAGE USA in 2023; co-authored op-ed in the Washington Blade and called for SOGI&SH training in NY state in 2020; mentioned in Poz at 40th anniversary of Denver Principles
• Rae Lewis-Thornton — American activist: "Emmy Award Winning AIDS Activist Rae Lewis-Thornton rose to national acclaim when she told her story of living with AIDS in a cover story for Essence Magazine". She has been living with HIV since 1983; profile as a Poz icon 2025
• Philippe Mangeot (born 1965) — French educator and activist; former president of ACT UP-Paris
• Christophe Martet (born 1959) — French journalist, former president of ACT UP-Paris
• Patrick O'Connell (artist) (1953–2021) — American artist and activist; founding director of Visual AIDS. Obits: NYT, Plus, UNAIDS, LA Blade, Gay Times; Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders (and in POZ); POZ interviews: 1 Jun 1997, 27 Jul 2015
• Charles Ortleb — American journalist; publisher and editor of Christopher Street and the New York Native and prominent AIDS dissident; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• Prof Anthony Pinching (Anthony John Pinching, born March 1947) — British immunologist at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. Did significant work on immunology of HIV in the 1980s, incl 1984 meeting report (QID Q93777314), also worked on ME/CFS; founding member APPG HIV/AIDS; ¿trustee at Terrence Higgins Trust?; recent evidence to UK Infected Blood Enquiry (25pp); refuted HIV denialism on Channel 4 in 1990
• Helen Schietinger — American nurse coordinator of UCSF's first AIDS clinic, worked with the AIDS Action Council and Red Cross Societies as an AIDS consultant; now active in Witness Against Torture (an anti-Gitmo organisation). Co-coordinator of the Fifth National Lesbian and Gay Health Conference, contributing to the Denver Principles demanded there (see Callen, 1988 and Poz, 2023); interviewed in (cited in Bobbi Campbell), wrote a chapter in What to Do about AIDS: Physicians and Mental Health Professionals Discuss the Issues, writes for Sojourners, mentioned in Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America by John-Manuel Andriote. Mentioned in (P2093) of (Q34945295), so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
• Scott Schoettes — American lawyer; HIV project director at Lambda Legal, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, Lambda, HuffPo. The Seattle Lesbian, on award, The Body, on appointment at Lambda. Interviews: AIDS Chicago, BuzzFeed, Newsweek. Articles: HuffPo on Obamacare, 2012, speech to 2013 Lavender Law conference, via POZ.com
• Thomas Sokolowski (1950–2020) — American art historian and founder of Visual AIDS, formerly chief curator at the Chrysler Museum of Art, director of The Andy Warhol Museum, director of Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University and member of jury for Flight 93 National Memorial. Refs: Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders; Carnegie Museums biog; obits: NYT, Art news, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rutgers, Visual AIDS
• David Stuart (sexual health activist) (c. 1965 – 2022; ORCID 0000-0003-4056-6730) — British (Australian?) support worker at 56 Dean Street in London, coined the term "chemsex" and was interviewed at length in the 2015 docu film of the same name. Autobiog; Obits: PinkNews, FilterMag, London Friend, GayTimes, Attitude, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Scottish Drugs Forum, VIH.org (in French), from a friend. Other links: Op-ed on chemsex for Plus magazine, Stuart on 1985 film Buddies; 2014 podcast interview, 2013 paper: "Sexualised drug use by MSM: background, current status and response" (pp6–10)
• Tim Sweeney (activist) (born 1954 or 1955) — American director/CEO of Lambda Legal, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Empire State Pride Agenda and Gill Foundation, amongst others; winner of Judith Peabody award. See Gay City News piece from Judith Peabody award
• Dan Turner (AIDS activist) (died 1990, aged 42) — San Francisco-based playwright, previously personal secretary to Tennessee Williams; founder of People With AIDS movement. See How to Survive a Plague, Andriote 1999 and obits: NYT, LA Times
• Cleews Vellay (1964–1994) — French activist; former president of ACT UP-Paris.
• Jason Veasey (born c. 1980) — American actor. Interviewed in Poz June 2025
• Pietro Vernazza — HIV/AIDS researcher in St. Gallen, Switzerland, author of the Swiss statement that undetectable = uninfectious. See IAS 2017 interview, ResearchGate, TheBodyPro, background and impact of the Swiss statement (Medical Brief ZA, NAM UK), professional biography. Mentioned in (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once he has a Wikidata item created.
• Michael Waldholz — US journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize at The New York Times for his AIDS reporting

History articles and summaries

• File:Symbol c class.svg HIV/AIDS in Australia is relatively detailed but makes no mention of cultural history, for example Holding the Man
• File:Symbol c class.svg HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean contains some good content, but most countries are missing, with details only present for Barbados, Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica. See also HIV/AIDS in North America; North America in this context goes as far south as Panama and includes all Caribbean islands. The coverage of Cuba could be improved from the 2003 paper A Comparative History of AIDS in Latin America: Brazil and Cuba
• File:Symbol start class.svg HIV/AIDS in Europe has very cursory details about several countries, sometimes only a single sentence
  • Several countries don't have their own articles, for example France, Ireland; see Template:Europe_topic at the footer of HIV/AIDS in Europe for redlinks and Template:HIV and AIDS for missing links
• File:Symbol start class.svg HIV/AIDS in New Zealand is very cursory
• File:Symbol stub class.svg HIV/AIDS in North America is a poor stub, with even the single-sentence descriptions of prevalence in most cases only showing information from 2007. Note that North America in this context goes as far south as Panama and includes all Caribbean islands.
• File:Symbol stub class.svg HIV/AIDS in South America is a poor stub, with even the single-sentence descriptions of prevalence in most cases only showing information from 2007. The coverage of Brazil could be improved from the 2003 paper A Comparative History of AIDS in Latin America: Brazil and Cuba
• File:Symbol start class.svg HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom is surprisingly cursory, even before the lack of mention of cultural history
  • Needs revising to reflect contemporary data and language
  • Needs to mention the individuals who pioneered clinical care, community activists, hospices and the charitable sector.
  • Needs to mention HIV Action plans and the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS (listed for creation, below)
  • Needs to mention devolved healthcare and Fast Track Cymru (listed for creation, below)
  • Treatment and prognosis section needs review; include mention of BHIVA and 90-90-90 and 95-95-95 targets
  • Needs to mention treatment and healthcare are free on the NHS (in all 4 nations), linking to NHS guidelines and BHIVA
  • Needs to mention Equality Act 2010 protections
  • PrEP section needs updating
  • Timeline needs some significant milestones adding: Avert founded 1986, National AIDS Trust and All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS founded 1987, NATSAL in 1990, HAART guidelines in 1997, Liverpool University Drug Interactions launched 1999, HIV i-Base in 2000, Sexual Health and HIV strategies (Wales 2000, England 2001, Scotland ¿2002?), London first Fast Track City in 2018, Fast Track Cymru first country 2025, opt-out testing.
  • Refs: aidsmap, LSHTM, political and social history from Diva
• File:Symbol start class.svg LGBT history in Canada has no mention of HIV/AIDS; there is content in HIV/AIDS in Canada that can be incorporated as a starting point, as can the biography of Gaëtan Dugas

Medical terms, medications and opportunistic infections

• No article 90-90-90, the UNAIDS "treatment for all" target; see UNAIDS
• No article AIDS survivor syndrome
• File:Symbol start class.svg Cabotegravir — Start-class article with little detail beyond brief mentions of regulatory approval and use for long-acting PrEP
• File:Symbol start class.svg Entry inhibitor
• File:Symbol start class.svg HIV tropism — and merge Trofile assay into it
• File:Symbol start class.svg Long-term nonprogressor
• File:Symbol c class.svg Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection — No mention of impact of MAI-wasting in the early AIDS Crisis. No mention of whether or not this is / has been a significant problem in the Global South.
• File:Symbol c class.svg Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention — no mention of cabotegravir; generally needs (constant) updating, despite ORES assessment as FA-class (!!)
• File:Symbol start class.svg Protease inhibitor (pharmacology) — Start-class article with no mention of their dramatic impact on the Western AIDS crisis. Plenty of information at Discovery and development of HIV-protease inhibitors that could be incorporated here, although that article is dated and needs globalising
  • No article Protease revolution — Maybe we need a new article specifically about the cultural impact of the introduction of protease inhibitors. See, for example, retrospectives from Poz.com and The Body; contemporary reportage from the Indy 1 and 2; the intro to Psychosocial and Public Health Impacts of New HIV Therapies (2002)
• File:Symbol start class.svg Seroconversion — no mention of AIDS-specific stuff
• No article Swiss statement by Dr Pietro Vernazza on "Undetectable = uninfectious": BMS (2008) 89:5 (fr). See TheBodyPro, Medical Brief ZA, NAM UK; googling will find plenty of hits.
• File:Symbol c class.svg Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole — minimal mention of use for prophylaxis of Pneumocystis pneumonia; mentioned repeatedly (using US tradename of Bactrim) in How to Survive a Plague.
• No article Undetectable — we know now that someone with an undetectable viral load is not contagious, yet this Top-importance term has no article. See HTB special report, Swiss statement (fr), TheBodyPro, Medical Brief ZA, NAM UK, Quinn et al, NEJM 2000; googling "Undetectable = uninfectious" will find plenty of hits.

Organisations and events

• File:Symbol c class.svg 56 Dean Street — London sexual-health clinic, the largest in Europe and heavily involved work around PrEP; really good Gay Times article on Dean Street Express for its 10th anniversary
• File:Symbol redirect class.svg ACT UP-Paris (founded 1989) — French direct action group
• File:Symbol c class.svg AIDS Healthcare Foundation (founded 1987) — lots of information about litigation and condoms-in-porn stuff that could do with condensing and summarising; no mention of Michael Weinstein's controversial stance on PrEP
• File:Symbol start class.svg aidsmap (founded 1987) — website and leaflet publisher providing information to non-scientific audience
• No article All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS (founded 1987) — British legislative advisory committee; may need disambiguating between Parliament linked data IDs 1076 and 493873; members need adding to Wikidata
• File:Symbol c class.svg amfAR (founded 1983) — research charity headquartered in New York
• No article Blackliners (founded 1989, registered charity 1992, closed 2003) — UK service organisation focussing on Black PWA. Mention of founding in Pink News interview with Marc Thompson, Wellcome Collection items, Black Cultural Archives ref, US NIH National Library of Medicine: poster, Ethnic Minority publications: HIV graphic comms archive, JSTOR OA poster, full JSTOR image search, archived website, interview with co-founder Dawn Hill, Evidence to UK Parliament Health Select Committee (and following pages), Mem & Arts at UK Charity Commission
• No article Bloomsbury Clinic — sexual health clinic in London Official website, Bloomsbury Network site
• No article British Association of Sexual Health & HIV (founded 2003) — UK medical organisation
• File:Symbol stub class.svg British HIV Association — UK medical organisation
• File:Symbol c class.svg Day Without Art (founded 1989) — annual AIDS-awareness event
• File:Symbol c class.svg Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (founded 1988) — nonprofit working to prevent pædiatric AIDS. should only need a little effort to reach Good Article status, at which point it could be nominated for Did You Know?
• No article European AIDS Treatment Group
• No article Fast Track Cities — joint project from UNAIDS, UN-HABITAT, IAPAC and the mayoralty of Paris to end the HIV, tuberculosis, and viral hepatitis epidemics by 2030. Described by ; website at www.fast-trackcities.org
• No article Fast Track Cymru — Wales became the first nation globally to receive Fast Track status; website fasttrack.wales
• File:Symbol c class.svg Gay Men's Health Crisis (founded 1982) — AIDS service organization headquartered in (and primarily serving) New York City
• File:Symbol stub class.svg George House Trust (founded 1985 as Manchester AIDSline) — British HIV service organisation in Manchester
• File:Symbol start class.svg HIV i-Base (founded 2000) — British HIV service organisation
• File:Symbol start class.svg Infected blood scandal in France — the French article Affaire du sang contaminé has more information that could be used to expand it.
• No article International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
• No article Liverpool University Drug Interactions — website, www.hiv-druginteractions.org/checker
• File:Symbol stub class.svg London AIDS Memorial — lots of work got done in French for World AIDS Day 2025
• File:Symbol start class.svg London Lighthouse (founded 1986, closed 2013) — British hospice in London
• No article Martin Fisher Foundation (founded 2015) — British HIV service organisation in Brighton
• File:Symbol c class.svg Mildmay Mission Hospital (founded 1877, closed 1982, reopened for AIDS care in 1985) — British hospice in London. Article looks good and ORES suggests it's GA class, so might just need review
• File:Symbol stub class.svg National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (founded 1990) — British survey in response to the Early AIDS Crisis
• File:Symbol start class.svg New York Native (published 1980–97) — New York magazine that became a prominent AIDS dissident publication, edited by Charles Ortleb; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• No article "No obits", the famous 13 August 1998 headline from the Bay Area Reporter. 20th anniversary retrospective from the journalist who wrote that piece
• File:Symbol start class.svg People With AIDS — article could do with cleanup more than expansion. In the 40th anniversary month of the Denver Principles (redirects to the PWA article; could be split out?), POZ.com reprinted Mark S. King’s 30th-anniversary article “How the Denver Principles Changed Health Care Forever” from 2013
• No article Positive East — British HIV service organisation in London
• File:Symbol c class.svg President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic — 1987–1988 US investigation
• File:Symbol c class.svg Red Hot Organization — might just need review; the article is pretty long already.
• No article The Sussex Beacon — British hospice in Brighton, sussexbeacon.org.uk
• File:Symbol start class.svg Terrence Higgins Trust (founded 1982) — largest AIDS service organization in the United Kingdom
• No article TheBody.com (founded 1995) — a magazine website and HIV/AIDS resource headquartered in New York City, founded by James D. Marks, to which this article redirected before his biog was deleted
• File:Symbol start class.svg Visual AIDS — needs expansion and visuals (email sent for permission)
• No article Waverley Care — Scotland's primary HIV service organisation

Cultural artefacts (music, TV, film, theatre and literature etc)

• File:Symbol start class.svg 3 Needles — 2005 film by Thom Fitzgerald
• File:Symbol start class.svg 1985 (film) — 2018 film by Yen Tan
• File:Symbol c class.svg AIDS and Its Metaphors — 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag
• File:Symbol start class.svg AIDS: Don't Die of Ignorance — 1987 UK public health campaign. Can probably be expanded from National Archives; they ran an event for LGBTQ+ History Month in 2021 mentioning that John Hurt reads the voiceover with "Here is something new, dangerous, alien", given that he was previously known for Alien (1979) — and presumably also for Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), though they didn't mention that in the event.
• File:Symbol c class.svg And the Band Played On (film) — 1993 docudrama by Roger Spottiswoode.
• File:Symbol b class.svg Angels in America — 1993 Pulitzer, Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning play by Tony Kushner
• File:Symbol c class.svg Angels in America (miniseries) — 2014 TV miniseries adaptation, directed by Mike Nichols, awarded multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Awards
• File:Symbol c class.svg Art of the AIDS Crisis — very few images and the prose could be substantially longer
• File:Symbol start class.svg The Blackwater Lightship — 1999 novel by Colm Tóibín, short-listed for the Booker Prize
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Blond Ambition World Tour — 1990 concert tour by Madonna. There is no mention of the safer-sex advocacy Madonna did during the show and only a fleeting mention of Keith Haring; the documentary Strike a Pose shows a bunch of this.
• File:Symbol start class.svg Christodora — 2017 novel by Tim Murphy
• No article Close to the Knives — 1991 memoir by David Wojnarowicz
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Dallas Buyers Club — 2013 film by Jean-Marc Vallée. Needs updating to reflect Peter Staley's comments in his 2021 book Never Silent, including the initial inclusion of of AIDS denialism and the straightwashing of Ron Woodroof, summarised in this 2021 Vanity Fair article. The Melisa Wallack interview mentioned here may still be online
• No article Early AIDS Crisis — currently a redirect to a section of History of HIV/AIDS, but we lack a good article describing the early Plague Years in "the West"
• No article The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS — 1994 nonfiction by Simon Garfield, reissued in 2021. Foreward was excerpted in full in Esquire
• File:Symbol start class.svg The Farewell Symphony — 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White
• No article Fellow Travelers (novel) — 2007 novel by Thomas Mallon
• File:Symbol start class.svg Fellow Travelers (miniseries) — 2023 prestige TV miniseries based on novel by Thomas Mallon
• File:Symbol start class.svg Fellow Travelers (opera) — 2016 opera based on novel by Thomas Mallon
• File:Symbol c class.svg "For a Friend" — 1988 single by The Communards
• File:Symbol start class.svg The Green Road (Enright novel) — 2015 novel by Anne Enright, long-listed for the Booker Prize
• No article The Heart of the Matter (documentary film) — 1994 documentary film about HIV/AIDS among American women by Amber L. Hollibaugh (1946–2023). Currently a redirect to Hollibaugh's biography. Sources: IMDb, TCMDb (US only), PBS, ACT UP NYC part 1 and part 2, Variety review
• File:Symbol c class.svg It's a Sin (TV series) — 2021 British TV series. Sources: Gay Times conversation with actress Lydia West and Jill Nader, the actress who the character of Jill was based on; Gay Times conversation with actor Omari Douglas and Black 1980s musician Andy Polaris; Buzzfeed conversation with screenwriter/showrunner Russell T Davies and actor Olly Alexander on experiences of growing up gay in the UK; Radio Times interview with screenwriter/showrunner Russell T Davies on casting queer actors for queer roles; Radio Times interview with RTD after show's completion
• File:Symbol start class.svg Let the Record Show (Schulman book) — 2021 non-fiction book by Sarah Schulman
• File:Symbol start class.svg The Line of Beauty — 2004 Booker Prize–winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst
• File:Symbol start class.svg The Line of Beauty (miniseries) — 2006 TV miniseries adaptation, written by Andrew Davies and directed by Saul Dibb
• No article The Lost Child of Philomena Lee — book (about Philomena Lee) by Martin Sixsmith, adapted to Philomena (film)
• File:Symbol stub class.svg My American History — 1995 collection of journalism, by Sarah Schulman
• File:Symbol c class.svg The Normal Heart — 1985 play by Larry Kramer, largely autobiographical, which won multiple Tony Awards in its 2011 revival
• File:Symbol c class.svg The Normal Heart (film) — 2014 TV movie adaptation, written by Kramer and directed by Ryan Murphy
• No article People in Trouble (novel) — 1990 novel by Sarah Schulman, with very similar plot to Rent (musical)
• No article Rat Bohemia — 1995 novel by Sarah Schulman, named one of the 100 best LGBT books by the Publishing Triangle
• File:Symbol stub class.svg "Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)" — 1990 single by Jimmy Somerville
• File:Symbol start class.svg Red Hot + Blue — needs formatting properly and some expansion
• File:Symbol stub class.svg Sex Positive — 2008 documentary film about Richard Berkowitz
• File:Symbol start class.svg Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America — 1998 Stonewall Book Award-winning book by Sarah Schulman
• File:Symbol c class.svg Strike a Pose — 2016 documentary about Madonna's Blond Ambition World Tour
• File:Symbol start class.svg United in Anger: A History of ACT UP — 2012 documentary film by Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman
• No article Veronica (2005 novel) — 2005 novel by Mary Gaitskill, National Book Award finalist
• File:Symbol stub class.svg "The Way We Live Now" (short story) — 1986 short story by Susan Sontag, described as "a signature work in the literature of the epidemic"