HIV and AIDS

Baker helped establish National HIV Testing Day, taking place annually on June 27.

From the age of 6, she devoted her life to teaching people about HIV/AIDS.

He was one of the longest living survivors of HIV/AIDS in the U.S.

She founded LPAC, known as the first lesbian super PAC.  

Bean was a minister who founded the Minority AIDS Project.

He was the founding director of Visual AIDS.

Sonnabend was one of the first to start working to identify HIV/AIDS.

Cornett was the first Miss America winner to focus on AIDS awareness for her platform.

Bone marrow and stem cell transplants cured Brown of leukemia and HIV.

Wong-Staal led the first team to clone HIV, a breakthrough that paved the way for HIV tests and the drug cocktails that allow people to live with HIV/AIDS.