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Ma. Dolzura Cortez (1960 or 1961 – 1992) was a Filipino who died of AIDS. She was the first Filipino with AIDS to publicly discuss her life and her experience living with HIV/AIDS. [1] [2] Cortez responded to a newspaper ad looking for a person living with HIV/AIDS who was willing to have their life serialized in print and later developed ...
As an incorporated town, Tusayan has a land area of only 144 acres (58 ha), or 0.225 square miles (0.58 km 2), making it the smallest town in Arizona by area. [ 5 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the census-designated place (CDP) in 2000 had a total area of 28.6 square miles (74 km 2 ), of which 28.6 square miles (74 km 2 ) is ...
2 million women worldwide became infected with HIV/AIDS. [35] 1.2 million women around the world died from HIV/AIDS. [35] 2008 Native American women became the third most likely to contract HIV/AIDS, following Black and Latina women. [37] Native American women are found to be 2.4 times as likely to contract HIV/AIDS, compared to white women ...
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]
American AIDS activist, worked with ACT UP in the 1980s and 1990s, now codirector of the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale. [73] Jahnabi Goswami (born 1976) Indian AIDS activist and first woman in the Northeast to declare her HIV status. [74] Eve van Grafhorst (1982–1993) Australian-born New Zealand AIDS campaigner.
Kayla Jean Mueller (August 14, 1988 – February 6, 2015) was an American human rights activist and humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona, United States.She was taken captive in August 2013 in Aleppo, Syria, after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital.
On May 19, 2009, Powell was supposed to be moved to a psychiatric unit for observation on suicide watch.At 11:00 a.m., Powell was placed in an outdoor cage to await cell transfer, during which she was exposed to temperatures of 107 °F (42 °C) for a period of four hours; the transfer was delayed due to a "disturbance at the observation ward". [7]
Kimberly Ann Bergalis (January 19, 1968 – December 8, 1991) was an American woman who was one of six patients purportedly infected with HIV by dentist David J. Acer, who was infected with HIV and died of AIDS on September 3, 1990. [1]