AIDS Activists
| Name | Life | Comments | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zackie Achmat | (born 1962) | South African AIDS activist; founder and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign. | |
| Rebekka Armstrong | (born 1967) | American former Playboy Playmate and HIV/AIDS educator. | |
| Richard Berkowitz | (born 1955) | American activist and author | |
| Marvelyn Brown | (born 1984) | American activist and author | |
| Gideon Byamugisha | (born 1959) | First openly HIV positive religious leader in Africa; founder of ANERELA and winner of the 2009 Niwano Peace Prize. | |
| Michael Callen | (1955–1993) | American AIDS activist, author and singer–songwriter. In 1983 he testified before the President's Commission on AIDS and before both houses of the United States Congress. | |
| Bobbi Campbell | (1952–1984) | American AIDS activist and one of the first people to publicly acknowledge his HIV infection. | |
| Paddy Chew | (1960–1999) | Singaporean AIDS activist. He was the first person in Singapore to publicise his HIV-positive status. | |
| Dolzura Cortez | (19??–1992) | Filipina AIDS activist. She was the first person in the Philippines to publicise her HIV-positive status. | |
| Joey DiPaolo | (born 1979) | American AIDS activist who won a court case to remain at his school. He co-founded the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation. | |
| Robert Frascino | (1952–2011) | American HIV specialist physician, immunologist, and HIV/AIDS advocate; co-founder of the Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation. | |
| Stephen Gendin | (1966–2000) | American AIDS activist involved in ACT UP and other groups; columnist for POZ Magazine. | |
| Alison Gertz | (1966–1992) | American AIDS activist. She was voted Woman of the Year by Esquire magazine. | |
| Elizabeth Glaser | (1947–1994) | American AIDS activist for pediatric causes, and wife of actor Paul Michael Glaser. She co-founded the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. | |
| Bob Hattoy | (1950–2007) | Government employee and activist on issues related to gay rights, AIDS and the environment. | |
| Nkosi Johnson | (1989–2001) | South African child, who made a powerful impact on public perceptions of the pandemic and its effects before his death at the age of twelve. | |
| Cleve Jones | (born 1954) | American LBGT and AIDS activist, who conceived of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Featured in And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic and portrayed in Milk. | |
| Cass Mann | (1948–2009) | AIDS activist/dissident and founder of the holistic AIDS charity Positively Healthy. One of the first people diagnosed HIV positive in 1985. | |
| Eliana Martinez | (1981–1989) | American girl whose mother appealed a court ruling that the girl would only be allowed to be in school if she would be in a glass cage during classes. | |
| Simon Nkoli | (1957–1998) | South African anti-apartheid, gay rights and AIDS activist. | |
| Ricky Ray Robert Ray Randy Ray |
(1977–1992) (1978–2000) (born 1979) |
American brothers who were the subject of a federal court battle against the DeSoto County School Board to allow them to attend public school despite their diagnoses. | |
| Jorge Saavedra Lopez | (born 19??) | Mexican AIDS activist and director of CENSIDA, Mexico's top AIDS agency, since 2003. | |
| Pedro Julio Serrano | (born 1974) | Puerto Rican LGBT and AIDS activist and the first openly HIV-positive and openly gay person to run for public office in Puerto Rico. | |
| Beatrice Were | (born c. 1966) | Ugandan AIDS activist and co-founder of the non-governmental organization NACWOLA. | |
| Ryan White | (1971–1990) | American teenager and AIDS activist. The Ryan White Care Act, a federal legislation that addresses the unmet health needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, was named after him. |
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