Tim Murphy
Contributing EditorTim Murphy, based in Brooklyn, has been writing about HIV/AIDS for 25 years, for publications and organizations including TheBody, TheBodyPro, POZ, New York Magazine, The Nation, Housing Works, and Lambda Legal. He is the author of the 1980s New York City AIDS saga Christodora and the new novel Correspondents, which is set between two families in Boston, Beirut, and Baghdad during the years of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Latest by Tim Murphy
The Guard Is Changing at the Nation’s Biggest LGBTQ Youth Shelter
Carl Siciliano and Alex Roque talk about the first leadership turnover at New York City’s Ali Forney Center since its 2002 founding.
For Black New Yorkers, HIV Progress Is Challenged by Housing Costs and Trump Anti-Immigrant Policies
Despite the Big Apple’s HIV rates falling for everyone, Black New Yorkers still are the most vulnerable.
South Side Chicago Organization Puts a Family Touch on HIV Treatment and PrEP Adherence Support
With a “for us, by us” approach, Brothers Health Collective reaches a community often missed by larger organizations.
In Tampa Bay, PrEP and U=U Education Are Needed Most for Young Men of Color and Transgender Women
“PrEP is our number-one priority, but it’s not easy. There’s a lot of misconceptions and misinformation out there.”
Affordable Housing and Injection Drug Use Crises Make HIV Success Unequal in San Francisco
While the city has become a global model that ending the HIV epidemic is possible, the impact of the tech boom has created problems for the city’s most marginalized residents.
Tackling HIV Racial Disparities in the City of Angels
Amidst skyrocketing housing costs and historic racial segregation, APLA expands its work to Black and brown neighborhoods.
Dallas’ HIV Services Are Robust. But the County’s Numbers Are Still Stubborn, Say Caregivers
Though services are there, workers in Dallas’ HIV caregiving force say that retaining people in these services is a problem.
South Carolina’s Multi-Faceted HIV Epidemic Must Contend With Harmful State Laws
Though South Carolina is in the middle of an opioid epidemic and is ranked sixth nationally for HIV/AIDS prevalence, needle exchange is illegal in the state.
In Mississippi, Efforts to Fight HIV Epidemic Clash With Health Care Disenfranchisement
Fighting Mississippi’s HIV epidemic is about more than just getting people living with HIV or at risk for HIV on a pill. It means confronting the reality that for many in the state, their primary care doctor is the emergency room.
Black Transgender Activist Kiara St. James on Her Strategic Vision for 2020—and on Getting Help With Holiday Depression and Anxiety
“I realized it wasn’t normal for me to feel the hopelessness I was feeling.”