Best-selling author & award-winning journalist
A new, updated edition of Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Crusade to Change the World has been released by Rare Bird Books. The critically acclaimed book by Patrick Range McDonald reveals the inspiring, untold story of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world’s largest HIV/AIDS medical-care nonprofit. Read more...
Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years, a documentary that explores the life-saving work of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, premieres at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles on October 19. Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald served as the historical consultant for the film. Read more...
The Lancet, the prestigious medical journal, gives high praise to Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Crusade to Change the World. The book details the inspiring, untold story of the world’s largest AIDS non-profit, which provides free HIV treatment to underserved people in more than 40 countries. Read more...
In South Florida, at the World AIDS Museum on December 8, AIDS Healthcare Foundation co-hosted a book signing for Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Crusade to Change the World. The book received a glowing review from The Lancet, the prestigious medical journal. Read more...
During my research for Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Crusade to Change the World, I often met with the inimitable Dr. Esther Schumann. She was widely considered one of the most effective doctors at AHF, and the following excerpt shows why — she never gave up on her patients. Read more...
With little fanfare, in American cities outside New York and San Francisco, men and women fought heroic battles against politicians and government bureaucrats who refused to address the major public health crisis that was the AIDS epidemic. In Dallas, one such activist was Jamie Schield. Read more...
In the middle of Dongdan Park in Beijing, China, next to a volleyball court, there is a yellow demarcation line that gay men rarely cross. A few miles away, at Mundanyuan Park, deceased gay men have been buried alongside a condom-littered, bush-shrouded dirt trail that’s used as a secret cruising spot for sex. Read more...