Did he have HIV, cause I’ve read that HIV causes kidney. Disease?
If he had HIV it wasn’t public. It’s quite possible. It’s such a shame, he was a very knowledgeable guy. Once he “came out” he turned very political...far left of course. He “unfriended” me on social media, then out of the blue, a few years ago, he called me “just to say hi”. What I didn’t know, what he didn’t tell me, was he was probably calling me to say “goodbye”. I hung up the phone thinking “that was very odd”. Maybe he had regrets.
The drugs which treat HIV are highly destructive to kidney health and function. The liver is hard hit too. So are the joints.