An AIDS patient's weekly dose of testosterone

Washington, D.C., artist and AIDS patient W. Maxwell Lawton gives himself a weekly testosterone injection and takes a plethora of prescription pills. Though fighting the disease was "a full time job," Lawton lived more than a decade longer than doctors predicted. He died in 2006.

Photograph by Karen Kasmauski

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