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Keith Christopher. (1957–1998) American actor and singer who was best known for roles of HIV positive characters in NBC soap opera Another World and CBS daytime drama The Guiding Light. [ 13 ][ 14 ][ 15 ] Brad Davis. (1949–1991) American actor; played the part of Billy Hayes in the film Midnight Express.
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.
Legends. Elite Model Management. Gia Marie Carangi[2] (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American supermodel, considered by some to be the first supermodel. [3][4] In 2023, Harpers Bazaar ranked her 15th among the greatest supermodels in the 1980s. [5] She was featured on the cover of numerous magazines, including multiple editions ...
Website. www.maryfisher.com. Mary Fisher (born April 6, 1948) is an American political activist, artist and author. After contracting HIV from her second husband, she has become an outspoken HIV/AIDS-activist for the prevention, education and for the compassionate treatment of people with HIV and AIDS. Fisher is particularly noted for speeches ...
Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Known for. HIV/AIDSactivism. Hydeia Loren Broadbent(June 14, 1984 – February 20, 2024) was an American HIV/AIDSactivist who advocated through appearances in national media and as a spokesperson for related foundations. Born with HIV, Broadbent began taking part in trials for treatment of HIV at the age of three.[1]
Academic advisors. Robert Gallo. Flossie Wong-Staal (née Wong Yee Ching, Chinese : 黄以静; pinyin : Huáng Yǐjìng; August 27, 1946 – July 8, 2020) was a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. She was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes, which was a major step in proving that HIV is the ...
AIDS-related pneumonia. Education. Horace Mann School. Alma mater. Parsons The New School for Design. Occupation. AIDS activist. Alison L. Gertz (February 27, 1966 – August 8, 1992) was an American AIDS activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Gertz died of AIDS-related pneumonia.
Alma mater. University of Florida. Known for. First known case of clinically-transmitted HIV. 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]