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    Opinion: AIDS activist Mathilde Krim saved my life

    The founding chair of what is today amfAR was a leading voice for science and reason in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
    by Steven Petrow Jan 19, 2018 4 minutes
    Dr. Mathilde Krim, the founding chair of amfAR, died on Monday at the age of 91.

    Mathilde Krim, an indefatigable fighter against the virus that causes AIDS and a stalwart champion of those infected with it, died this week at age 91. Her death is a loss for the HIV/AIDS community, and for me personally.

    Krim saved my life — although not exactly in a way I could have imagined — and it was more than a decade before I could tell her my story and thank her on behalf of so many others.

    In the spring of 1986, I noticed a purplish lesion on my calf. Fearing it was Kaposi’s sarcoma, a cancer inevitably linked

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