When Eric was diagnosed with HIV at 26, a doctor told him to plan for his funeral and give up on the idea of children. Today he’s a husband and the father of two HIV-negative sons, and the world’s first Burundian-Dutch Drag King living openly with HIV, a title he wears as both armor and…
‘Do you mind if I’m smoking while we’re talking?” enquires Andreas Angelidakis as we both recline on a bean bag in the form of a fallen classical column. “Do you mind if it’s narcotics? If it’s cannabis?” He extracts an elegantly constructed spliff wrapped in pink cigarette paper from his black Nike windcheater and lights…
Nurse Mpho Matloane prepares a syringe filled with the drug Lenacapavir which he prepares to administer to Kegoratile Aphane (left) at the Phedisong clinic in Ga-Rankuwa, north-west of Pretoria, on Dec. 2, 2025. Ihsaan Haffe/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ihsaan Haffe/AFP via Getty Images JOHANNESBURG — South Africa rolled out a new,…
