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The first AIDS-related storyline on a daytime soap opera in the United States, [1] Dawn was introduced as the sister of Chad Rollo and a love interest for Scott LaSalle. She soon learned that she had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, and died of AIDS in 1988. 1987: Designing Women: CBS: Kendall Dobbs: Tony Goldwyn
Gil Turner (born Gilbert Strunk; May 6, 1933 – September 23, 1974) was an American folk singer-songwriter, magazine editor, Shakespearean actor, political activist, and for a time, a lay Baptist preacher. [3]
African-American Missouri teenager who was the victim of the first confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. His death baffled doctors because AIDS was not discovered and officially recognized until June 5, 1981, when five San Francisco doctors discovered the disease, long after Rayford's death. [270]
Peter McRobbie as Dr. Max Essex, one of the first to suspect that a retrovirus was the cause of AIDS and to determine that HIV could be transmitted through blood; Christian Clemenson as Dr. Dale Lawrence, a member of the CDC's Task Force on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections; Neal Ben-Ari as Dr. Tom Spira, a research scientist at the CDC
Kieran Turner, a documentary filmmaker who created the web series “Wallflowers,” died Dec. 23 in West Hollywood. He was 56. Turner’s death after a battle with cancer was confirmed by Christy ...
This is a timeline of HIV/AIDS, including but not limited to cases before 1980. Pre-1980s See also: Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases Researchers estimate that some time in the early 20th century, a form of Simian immunodeficiency virus found in chimpanzees (SIVcpz) first entered humans in Central Africa and began circulating in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) by the 1920s. This gave rise ...
Joseph Kibler was born with HIV, but through a strict regimen of medications, he's currently undetectable. He and his wife, Carey Cox, are currently expecting their first baby in April 2025, and ...
Turner died on May 24, 2023, following a long period of illness, including a stroke in 2013, an intestinal cancer diagnosis in 2016 and kidney failure, which required an organ transplant in 2017 ...