JD Davids

JD Davids is the Managing Editor of TheBody.com, the web's largest resource on HIV.

A longtime LGBT and HIV activist, JD worked on pivotal efforts to arm a HIV treatment educators and activists living with HIV, slash the global price of HIV treatment, expand syringe access, win a national HIV strategy for the United States, mitigate the harm of Medicaid managed care and confront the crisis in prison medical care.

Along the way, JD was a member of ACT UP Philadelphia, co-founder of Project TEACH at Philadelphia FIGHT, community organizer at Health GAP and Director of Mobilization at AIDS Foundation of Chicago. JD founded Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) and the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA).

Now living in Brooklyn, NY, JD parents a kid, serves on the board of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and is a devoted ally of the Positive Women’s Network of the USA.