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Joseph Sonnabend, MD

Physician and AIDS Researcher

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R.I.P. Joseph Sonnabend, MD

The pioneering AIDS researcher and clinician was 88.

Remembering Joyce Wallace, a Champion for Female Sex Workers

She was also one of the first doctors in New York City to care for people who had AIDS.

A Look Back at the Year a Rare Cancer Was First Seen in Gay Men

I was one of those physicians providing care to gay men in New York City when AIDS first came to attention.

an hourglass with sand running downwards

COVID-19 and the Plight of Older People

Are sufficient resources being allocated to staff at care homes or to families who care for their elderly relatives?

COVID-19 and the Early Response to AIDS

Can we avoid repeating the mistakes made in the medical response to HIV?

The WHO’s Unwise Recommendation for Gay Men

A more balanced response would have been a call for more research for a fuller description of those individual situations where to use PrEP.

How to have sex in an epidemic: 30th anniversary

It was written with two HIV positive patient collaborators of mine, Michael Callen and Richard Berkowitz.

Transmission of HIV From Infants To Their Mothers

This title may surprise some. In a paper from a group at CDC I learned yet another HIV/AIDS related acronym. It’s CBWT.

Have we ignored a very simple procedure that could significantly reduce the risk of sexual transmission of HIV to men from women?

Not washing immediately after sex may actually have a significant protective effect for men at risk from heterosexual intercourse.

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The 2012 revised DHHS HIV treatment guidelines and what’s wrong with expert opinion.

There are plenty of other experts who are not so certain that starting treatment above 500 CD4 lymphocytes will confer a net benefit.

Dual HIV Infection

We have known for quite a long time that it’s possible to be infected with HIV more than once.

HIV and Herpes Viruses

These trials of the effects of anti-herpes treatment on HIV also represent missed research opportunities.

PrEP Trial Reports: iPrEx

Too often the results of prevention trials are presented in ways that exaggerate the benefits of an intervention.

Treatment as Prevention: Protecting patient autonomy

Patient autonomy is just a particular instance of individual autonomy, a term that may sound pretty dry and academic but if we used the term i...

Interferon and AIDS: Too much of a good thing

Interferon also has widespread effects on the immune system and elsewhere, some of which can be harmful if prolonged.

Anal Cancer and HIV

I was prompted to write this entry after reading an important report about HIV and anal cancer which has just appeared

Remembering the Original AZT Trial

I’m going back 24 years to recall a significant event in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

PrEP iPrEx Trial Reports

I may as well jump in immediately: The iPrEx trial of pre-exposure prophylaxis is a failure. Maybe a shocking statement in view of the univers...