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Died. September 29, 2020 (2020-09-29) (aged 54) Palm Springs, California, U.S. Known for. First person cured of HIV/AIDS. Timothy Ray Brown (March 11, 1966 [ 1 ] – September 29, 2020) was an American considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Brown was called "The Berlin Patient" at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and ...
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.
Ryan White. Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990) [1] was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending classes following a diagnosis of AIDS. As a hemophiliac, White became infected with HIV from a contaminated factor ...
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 ...
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]
February 20, 2024. (2024-02-20) (aged 39) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Known for. HIV/AIDS activism. Hydeia Loren Broadbent (June 14, 1984 – February 20, 2024) was an American HIV/AIDS activist who advocated through appearances in national media and as a spokesperson for related foundations. Born with HIV, Broadbent began taking part in trials for ...
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 ...
David Kirby (activist) David Lawrence Kirby (December 6, 1957 – May 5, 1990) [1] was an American HIV/AIDS activist, and the subject of a photograph taken at his deathbed by Therese Frare. The image was published in Life magazine, [2] which called it the "picture that changed the face of AIDS". The image shows Kirby, near death, a vacant look ...