AHF to Release Rare Bird Revised Hardcover Edition of ‘Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World’

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thirty-five years after its founding, AIDS Healthcare Foundation details its inspiring legacy. Award-winning journalist Patrick Range Mcdonald takes readers behind the scenes of the monumental events that helped to make the nonprofit organization the global leader in the fight against the AIDS/HIV epidemic and other public health issues.

Books are now available wherever good books are sold, including Amazon and the Rare Bird Books website.

About Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Crusade to Change the World

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.

For the revised edition, a new color photo insert has been added, and McDonald writes an afterword that updates AHF’s life-saving work since 2014. That includes AHF’s timely effort to address the nation’s housing affordability and homelessness crises through a housing provider division, Healthy Housing Foundation, and a housing advocacy division, Housing Is A Human Right. AHF has utilized the adaptive reuse of existing buildings to produce more than 1,400 low-income and homeless units since 2018, with thousands more in the pipeline. AHF has also been a leading force in addressing the global COVID-19 pandemic.

About Patrick Range McDonald

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

Praise for Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change 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 organization, 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 organization."
―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 Rare Bird

Rare Bird is a Los Angeles–based publishing company founded by Tyson Cornell, former Marketing and Publicity Director of Book Soup, a legendary independent bookstore on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. Rare Bird is known for high quality literary and entertainment books by notable authors such as Jack Kerouac, Chuck Palahniuk, Bella Thorne, William T. Vollmann, Sean Penn, Ashley Blue, Jerry Stahl, “Miss” Mercy Fontenot, Frank Capra, Karmen Karma, J. G. Ballard, Malia James, and many others.