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The virus spread to his wife and youngest daughter, both of whom also died; this was the first documented cluster of AIDS cases before the AIDS epidemic of the early 1980s. [ 1 ] The researchers studying the cases referred to Røed as the "Norwegian sailor" or the anagram "Arvid Darre Noe" to conceal his identity; his true name, Arne Vidar ...
At the time of Ricky's death, they had broken up but remained close friends. [7] [8] Robert died of AIDS-related causes in 2000 at the age of 22. [9] Shortly thereafter, their father, Clifford Ray, attempted suicide but survived. [10] Randy Ray married in 2001 and lived in Orlando, Florida. He managed his HIV through medication. [11] He died ...
American AIDS denialist who refused interventions to reduce the risk of transmitting HIV to her children; her three-year-old daughter died of complications of AIDS in 2005. [451] Leonard Matlovich (1943–1988) American decorated Vietnam War veteran, fought U.S. military in 1975 for the right to serve as an openly gay man. [452] Kongulu Mobutu
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 ...
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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
Since 1981, nearly 39 million people globally have died from AIDS-related illnesses, the result of HIV if left untreated. In the 1980s and '90s, the height of the epidemic, gay and bisexual men ...
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is a major force in funding the study of pediatric HIV problems and tackling juvenile AIDS, both domestically and globally. Glaser's book In the Absence of Angels (1991), written with journalist Laura Palmer, was described as "a handbook of how the connected make waves in America".