Gilead’s New Drug Descovy Spotlights Old Cracks in HIV Care

When Nicole Price was first diagnosed with HIV, her initial reaction was similar to what a lot of HIV-positive women first think: This doesn’t happen to women.

Price was diagnosed in 2000, when Magic Johnson was the heterosexual face of HIV and it wasn’t common knowledge outside medical communities that women could even get the disease. “It was this idea that it was just gay people and people who shot up drugs,” she said.

That hasn’t changed much, said Price, who up until May worked as a program manager for the female HIV support group BABES Network in Seattle. “When ...