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The eldest of three daughters, Bergalis was born in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, in 1968, where her family lived until moving to Florida in 1978. In 1985, she enrolled at the University of Florida and majored in business. A devout Catholic, Bergalis always maintained that she was a virgin and that she never used I. V. drugs.
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.
At the time of the fire, the family was staying with relatives at an undisclosed location. The cause of the fire was described as "suspicious," and the arsonist was never caught. [3] [4] After the arson, the Ray family settled in nearby Sarasota. The brothers attended Gocio Elementary School in spite of opposition from groups like Citizens ...
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 ...
David J. Acer (November 11, 1949 – September 3, 1990) was an American dentist who allegedly infected six of his patients, including Kimberly Bergalis, with HIV. [1] The Acer case is considered the first documented HIV transmission from a healthcare worker to a patient in the United States, [2] though the means of transmission remain unknown. [3]
Susan Cowell, a politically savvy leader in the Rochester LGBTQ community who spearheaded the early local response to AIDS in the 1980s, died Saturday at age 71 after a long period of illness.
Heterosexual male; former runaway who returned to his family after contracting HIV; died of an AIDS-related illness. He was the world's first soap opera character to contract the disease, and also the first to portray an HIV/AIDS character on a major television show outside North America. 1991: Neon Rider: CTV: Walt: Philip Granger
Family Randall Robinson (brother) Maxie Cleveland Robinson Jr. [ 1 ] (May 1, 1939 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] – December 20, 1988) [ 4 ] [ 5 ] was an American broadcast journalist , most notably serving as co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight alongside Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings from 1978 until 1983.