We get it: Mayor Fenty is one helluva busy guy. In his first few months on the job, he’s hit the ground running on issues ranging from public safety to schools to Congressional representation. One area where some residents feel he’s been curiously quiet, though, is on the District’s ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis. Among them is the newly formed Metro D.C.chapter of The Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA), which writes that with “Adrian Fenty’s first 100 Days more than half over, it is clear that he has failed to lead on HIV/AIDS in the District.”

Is this accusation fair? In his first week as Mayor, Fenty dismissed Marsha Martin as director of the District’s Administration for HIV Policy and Programs (now HAA, the HIV/AIDS Administration). Though many thought she might have been making progress from Lydia Watt’s much-maligned AHPP tenure, her post lasted only 16 months. We learned in the weeks following that her departure was just the beginning of a complete DoH overhaul. More than a month later, however, the HAA remains without a permenant director and is still being overseen on a part-time basis by DoH Director Gregg Pane.

The C2EA claims that Martin’s dismissal came without a specific replacement in mind, leaving the agency foundering, and that Fenty’s 100 Day Plan fails to adequately address the city’s HIV health crisis. The deadline for the Mayor’s specific pledge to hold an HIV Summit during his administration’s first 90 days is now less than a month away, and there’s concern the Summit still hasn’t gotten off the ground. The 100 Day Plan was ambitious, for sure, but was it too much for the new administration to fulfill? Are those living with the HIV/AIDS crisis in the District being ignored, again, in the crush to do too much at once?