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American LGBT and AIDS activist, who conceived of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Featured in And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic and portrayed in Milk. [78] Cass Mann (1948–2009) AIDS activist/dissident and founder of the holistic AIDS charity Positively Healthy.
Globally, some 35.3 million are living with HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 36 million people have died since the first cases were reported in 1981 and 1.6 million people died of HIV/AIDS in 2012. [1]
Martin "Marty" Delaney (December 9, 1945 – January 23, 2009) [1] was an advocate for HIV/AIDS treatments. In 1985, he founded Project Inform, an education and public policy advocacy group concerned with HIV and AIDS, and continued to lead the organization until 2008. [2]
Magic Johnson announces his HIV diagnosis and retirement from the Lakers on Nov. 7, 1991, with NBA Commissioner David Stern and teammate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at his side.
Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist who gained media attention for being a part of America’s “first generation of children born HIV positive” in the late 1980s, died Tuesday. She ...
Opinion: In the U.S., we are fortunate to have easy access to free testing and medications to prevent and combat HIV-AIDS. Forty years ago, AIDS was a death sentence. Not today, but HIV is still a ...
After Pippin died in 1990, [3] [4] Pippins co-founded and volunteered with Miracle House, [5] [6] to provide housing and support for out-of-town families of AIDS patients. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] "If I can help these families get to New York and survive it, then all these boys wouldn't have to die without their mothers."
Longtime LGBTQ+ activist David Mixner, who was a leader in the fight for social change and equality, has died, LGBTQ+ Victory Fund President and CEO Annise Parker announced. HIV/AIDS activist ...