Khafre Abif, MLS

HIV Street Medicine Senior Advisor

Khafre Kujichagulia Abif is an Atlanta-based Bisexual, HIV, and social justice activist, mental health advocate, writer, editor, and artist who has been thriving with HIV for 38 years.

He holds a Master of Science in Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh and has spent his career at the intersection of public health, advocacy, and community building.

He has served as a Community Organizer with the Southern AIDS Coalition, was among the bisexual leaders invited to brief the White House in 2014, 2015, and 2022, and was appointed to the Georgia State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Office of Civil Rights.

He was named one of HIV Plus magazine's 75 Most Amazing People Living with HIV and recognized on the POZ 100 as a long-term survivor. A pioneering librarian, he was among the first men of color to lead children's services at a major urban library system at the Brooklyn Public Library, and he later directed the Langston Hughes Library. He is also the editor of two anthologies amplifying the voices of people living with HIV.

As HIV Street Medicine Senior Advisor, Khafre will help inform WEA’s HIV Street Medicine: The Last Mile initiative, bringing lived experience, community insight, and decades of advocacy to work focused on reaching people who face homelessness, stigma, fragmented care, and barriers to sustained HIV treatment.

His leadership will help strengthen WEA’s commitment to care models rooted in trust, access, dignity, and the belief that HIV care must reach people where they are.