Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World [Revised Edition] by Patrick Range McDonald

In a riveting portrait of the world’s largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the height of 1980s AIDS crisis to its position today as a global leader in the fight to control HIV and AIDS. This untold story highlights AHF’s bold history of activism, its hard-charging advocacy on the behalf of vulnerable people, and its heroic efforts to provide free HIV drug treatment around the world. With insider access, McDonald follows AHF for a year as it clashes with the Obama administration, the state of Nevada, and the World Health Organization. He interviews AHF’s key players, including firebrand president Michael Weinstein, and travels to AHF outposts around the globe. Along the way, McDonald discovers that AHF is a tenacious “people power” organization that brings hope and change to nearly all corners of the world.

"McDonald has managed a deft balancing act with this book: on one hand providing a fascinating inside view of a billion-dollar non-profit organisation, while on the other hand providing a history of both the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the AIDS crisis, full of human interest and compelling portraits of the major players in the organisation."
―The Lancet

"AHF is a powerful force for good in a society that often overlooks the vulnerable."
―Dr. Cornel West, noted intellectual, academic, and author of Race Matters

About the Author

Patrick Range McDonald is an investigative journalist, former staff writer at LA Weekly, and coauthor of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan's memoir. A New Jersey native, the Fordham University graduate lives in West Hollywood, California.