* 1963 – Wan Yanhai, Chinese AIDS activist

In 2003 the constitutional secondary rights were used by the HIV / AIDS activist group the Treatment Action Campaign as a means of forcing the government to change its health policy.

* August 8 – Alison Gertz, American AIDS activist ( b. 1966 )

* February 27 – Alison Gertz, American AIDS activist ( d. 1992 )

These graphic, billboard-sized ads included depictions of a variety of shocking subjects, one of which featured a deathbed scene of a man ( AIDS activist David Kirby ) dying from AIDS.

* Nobel Peace Prize laureate and environmental activist Wangari Maathai was asked by a Time magazine interviewer if she stood by a previous alleged claim that " AIDS is a biological weapon manufactured by the developed world to wipe out the black race ".

The idea for the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt was conceived in 1985 by AIDS activist Cleve Jones during the candlelight march, in remembrance of the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.

* Jason Robertson, AIDS activist

* Robert Hilferty ( 1959 – 2009 ), journalist, filmmaker and AIDS activist.

This stance led him to offer public support to controversial groups like the North American Man Boy Love Association and to criticize both the mainstream gay rights movement and some of the movement's radical components, including the AIDS activist group ACT UP.

In 1997, writer and AIDS activist Larry Kramer offered his alma mater Yale $ 4 million ( and his personal papers ) to endow a permanent, tenured professorship in gay studies, and possibly build a gay and lesbian student center.

* Ilka Tanya Payán ( 1943 – 1996 ), Dominican-American actress and AIDS activist

Proposition 215 was conceived by San Francisco marijuana activist Dennis Peron in memory of his partner, Jonathan West, who had used marijuana to treat symptoms of AIDS.

* Maggie Rizer, supermodel & AIDS activist

In 1988 Galás joined ACT UP, the AIDS activist group.

Jason Robertson ( August 28, 1980-September 4, 2003 ) was an AIDS activist.

There is broad scientific consensus that HIV is the cause of AIDS, but some individuals reject this consensus, including biologist Peter Duesberg, biochemist David Rasnick, journalist / activist Celia Farber, conservative writer Tom Bethell, and intelligent design advocate Phillip E. Johnson.

In dedicating the film's soundtrack album to performer and AIDS activist Michael Callen and other friends they had lost to the disease, Greyson, composer Glenn Schellenberg and producers Garfield and Stratton explained their reasons for making the film.

" We wanted to explode the opportunistic myth of Patient Zero .... More importantly, we wanted to celebrate the courage and sass of an international AIDS activist movement that has tirelessly fought for the rights of people living with AIDS.

China blocked by police protest over ineffective drug treatments, cancelled meetings on HIV groups, closured office of the AIDS organization, and detained or put under house arrest prominent AIDS activists such as 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award winner Li Dan, eighty-year old AIDS activist Dr. Gao Yaojie, and the husband-and-wife HIV activist team of Hu Jia ( activist ) and Zeng Jinyan.

On top of that, 60-year-old Nurse " Brownie " Mary Rathburn's arrest for bringing a dozen marijuana brownies to the International AIDS conference made headlines garnering sympathy for medical marijuana.

Rejecting his advances, Zero examines some of the other exhibits ( including displays on Typhoid Mary and the Tuskegee syphilis study ) before finding an African green monkey, another suspected early AIDS vector.

Walter has collaborated with artists like Evan Parker, John Butcher, Marshall Allen, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson, Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, Vinny Golia, Joe Morris, Frank Gratkowski, William Winant, Marlon Magas, Jim O ' Rourke, Tom Smith in To Live and Shave in L. A., and Ken Vandermark as well as many influential underground rock bands including Lair of the Minotaur, Bobby Conn, U. S. Maple, Cock E. S. P., Curse of the Birthmark, the Scissor Girls, Erase Errata, The Chicago Sound, Harry Pussy, Quintron, Sharon Cheslow, and Cheer-Accident, in addition to producing albums by the Coachwhips, Burmese, Total Shutdown, Arab on Radar, AIDS Wolf, and Glenn Branca.

She starred with Kevin Kline in Grand Canyon ( 1991 ); with Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Jessica Tandy in Fried Green Tomatoes ( 1991 ); with Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in The Client ( 1994 ); with John Cusack in Bullets Over Broadway ( 1994 ); and with Drew Barrymore and Whoopi Goldberg in Boys on the Side ( 1995 ), as a woman with AIDS.

* Mary Fisher's A Whisper of AIDS Speech to the 1992 Republican National Convention Text, audio and video.

Some characters with healing abilities volunteered their services, some lower-level characters who could not help would direct people away from infected areas, some characters would flee to uninfected areas, and some characters attempted to spread the disease to others — resembling behavior attributed to early AIDS patient Gaëtan Dugas and typhoid patient Mary Mallon.

On June 15, 1998, Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS presented an all-star fully staged one-night-only concert at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center.

Persons with lowered immunity, such as persons with AIDS or children who are malnourished, are more likely to experience a severe case if they become infected.

* Willing participation in deception by local doctors who wish to take advantage of this aid money: " African doctors themselves participate in building the myth of the AIDS pandemic.

Because reported AIDS cases in Africa and other parts of the developing world include a larger proportion of people who do not belong to Duesberg's preferred risk groups of drug addicts and male homosexuals, Duesberg writes on his website that " There are no risk groups in Africa, like drug addicts and homosexuals ," However, many studies have addressed the issue of risk groups in Africa and concluded that the risk of AIDS is not equally distributed.

* According to researchers who conducted large-scale studies of AZT, the drug does not cause AIDS.

Among HIV-infected patients who had not yet developed AIDS, placebo-controlled trials found that AZT given as single-drug therapy delayed, for a year or two, the onset of AIDS-related illnesses.

The teaching has been criticized by development organizations and others who claim that it limits the methods available to fight worldwide population growth and struggle against AIDS.

The school district produced an expert witness, Dr. Steven Armentrout, who testified that a possibility existed that AIDS could be transmitted to schoolmates through yet undiscovered " vectors.

Women who are against polygynous marriages argued that polygyny places individuals at risk for contracting various sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS.

AIDS patients who start HAART after being diagnosed with PML tend to have a slightly longer survival time than patients who were already on HAART and then develop PML.

In film, Team America: World Police includes a character who plays a lead role in Lease, a Broadway musical parody of Rent ; the finale song is " Everyone has AIDS !";.

Safe sex is sexual activity engaged in by people who have taken precautions to protect themselves against sexually transmitted infections ( STIs ) such as HIV / AIDS.

" The UCSF Medical Center is consistently ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the United States by U. S. News & World Report, who also ranked UCSF ’ s medical school specialty program in AIDS medical care first in the country.

* Jay Levy, who, along with Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute and Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute, was among the first to identify and isolate HIV as the causative agent in AIDS

* There were numerous protests demanding that the US government take action against AIDS, which were fuelled by the AIDS-related deaths of celebrities such as Rock Hudson and Liberace, and by the case of Ryan White, a child who became infected by HIV through contaminated blood supplies.

In Philadelphia, he played a gay lawyer with AIDS who sues his firm for discrimination.

Ryan Wayne White ( December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990 ) was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV / AIDS in the United States, after being expelled from middle school because of his infection.

Lola ( whose name used to be Esteban ), who is dying from AIDS, talks about how she always wanted a son, and Manuela tells her about her own Esteban and how he died in a car accident.

Two years later, Manuela returns with Esteban to an AIDS convention, telling Huma and Agrado, who now run a stage show together, that Esteban had been a miracle by not inheriting the virus.

She returned to television in A Mother's Prayer ( 1995 ) playing a mother who lost her husband and is diagnosed with AIDS.

Young children and immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV / AIDS, those taking certain types of chemotherapy, or those who have recently received an organ transplant, may develop severe toxoplasmosis.

The song " Say a Prayer " was written for a friend of hers who had died from AIDS.

Ellen was doing a lot of charity work for the gay community, and was working out of a clinic, helping people who were suffering from AIDS.

Lauper was also one of the celebrities who designed a T-shirt for the second Fashion Against Aids campaign in 2009, a collaboration between H & M and Designers Against Aids to raise HIV / AIDS awareness worldwide, particularly amongst youngsters.