Abstract When HIV/AIDS came to Hawai‘i in the early 1980s, Dr. David McEwan was one of the physicians most involved in treating the disease and advocating for patients. He was a founder of the non-profit Life Foundation (now renamed the Hawai‘i Health and Harm Reduction Center) and served or consulted with numerous task forces and other medical and social service task groups working on improving Hawai‘i’s response to the disease. In the 1990s, Dr. McEwan expanded his activism to the struggle for...