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Anne-Christine d'Adesky is a journalist, author and activist.[1]
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She holds a Master Degree in Journalism from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and a Bachelor’s Degree from Barnard College.[2] In 1984, she was a foreign correspondent in Haiti. Here she began writing about HIV. She wrote about HIV/AIDS for the New York Native.[3] When she returned to the United States, she wrote about global AIDS and politics. She wrote for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Advocate and Out. She was an early member of ACT UP.[3] She is the founder and co-executive director of WE-ACT (Women’s Equity in Access to Care and Treatment), an organization that helps Rwandan women affected by HIV/AIDS.[1] She was a senior editor at Out magazine in the mid 1990s. She launched HIV Plus magazine, where she served as editor in chief for two years. She is the executive director of AIDS, Medicines & Miracles, based in San Francisco. She covers AIDS for magazines such as SEED, the Nation, and the Village Voice, and health agencies such as the World Health Organization. In addition to English, she speaks French, Spanish and Haitian Creole.[2]
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- 2004 Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS
- 1994 Under the Bone
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- 2003 Pills, Profits, and Protest (documentary) (co-producer)
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