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This is a categorized, alphabetical list of people who are known to have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the pathogen that causes AIDS, including those who have died. AIDS is a pandemic. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 84.2 million [64.0–113.0 million] people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 40.1 ...
Using WHO statistics, in 2012 the number of people living with HIV was growing at a faster rate (1.98%) than worldwide human population growth (1.1% annual), and the cumulative number of people with HIV is growing at roughly three times faster (3.22%). The costs of treatment is significantly increasing burden on healthcare systems when budgets ...
Colony Brands, Inc. (formerly, The Swiss Colony, Inc.) is a mail-order and electronic retail company known for its cheese, sausage, chocolate, fruitcakes, and other food products. The company also features extensive offerings in furniture, home decor, apparel, entertainment products, and electronics. It is one of the largest direct marketers in ...
Laurene Powell Jobs (born 1963), widow of Steve Jobs, founder of Emerson Collective. Anton LaVey (1930–1997), founder of the Church of Satan, author, musician and occultist, lived and died in San Francisco. Eleanor Dumont ( Madame Moustache) (1829–1879), Gold Rush era professional card dealer and gambler.
As of 2018, about 700,000 people have died of HIV/AIDS in the United States since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and nearly 13,000 people with AIDS in the United States die each year. [ 7] With improved treatments and better prophylaxis against opportunistic infections, death rates have significantly declined. [ 8]
The National AIDS Memorial Grove, or "The Grove," is located at the de Laveaga Dell in eastern Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco, California.. The Grove is a dedicated space and place in the national landscape where the millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to heal, hope, and remember.
sfaf .org. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation ( SFAF) is a nonprofit [1] organization dedicated to providing services for people with HIV/AIDS, with a mission to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States. They were founded in 1982, at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. SFAF is one of the largest and oldest community-based AIDS service ...
Robert Boyle "Bobbi" Campbell Jr. (January 28, 1952 – August 15, 1984) [ 1] was a public health nurse and an early United States AIDS activist. In September 1981, Campbell became the 16th person in San Francisco to be diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma, [ 2] when that was a proxy for an AIDS diagnosis. [ 3] He was the first to come out publicly ...