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Peter Staley’s talk at the opening session of CROI 2026 was a grim post-mortem of one of the most challenging years in recent HIV history – an ‘annus horribilis’ – a phrase Queen Elizabeth II used to describe 1992 and The Lancet applied to 2025.
Staley is a co-founder and president of the board of PrEP4All. He is most famously associated with the activism of ACT UP and was one of the founders of the Treatment Action Group (TAG). Staley was diagnosed with AIDS-related complex in 1985, while working as a bond trader on Wall Street.
“We all knew Trump’s second term would be worse than his first,” Staley said. “But few of us were prepared for the level of destruction – and the speed of it – that started immediately after his inauguration.”
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View all aidsmap reports from CROI 2026
SEE ALSO:
- POZ: CROI 2026 opens with calls to action
- HIV i-Base: US activist Peter Staley opens CROI: we must all be activists until the next US administration
- AJMC: From ending the HIV epidemic to uncertain ground: PrEP4All’s Peter Staley
- AVAC: CROI 2026: Science, solidarity and high stakes for the HIV response (overview of day 1 & day 2)
Source : aidsmap
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