John Donnelly spent more than a decade covering the politics of AIDS and America's response to the pandemic for The Boston Globe. He lived for several years in South Africa and traveled the continent of Africa for The Globe immediately following PEPFAR's launch. After his career in journalism, he became an adviser to the President of the World Bank and received a Bellagio residency from the Rockefeller Foundation to write this book. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.