Elizabeth Glaser

With their daughter's condition rapidly deteriorating, the Glasers fought to have her treated with AZT intravenously. However, the treatment came too late, and the child eventually succumbed to the disease late in the summer of 1988. Read Less

She criticized the federal government's under-funding of AIDS research and its lack of initiative in tackling the AIDS crisis.

The foundation that bears Elizabeth Glaser's name is a major force in funding the study of pediatric HIV issues and tackling juvenile AIDS, both domestically and globally. Her book In the Absence of Angels (1991) is noted for its sensitive communication of the pain of the loss of a child and the intrusion of the media on a mother's grief.

Her son, Jake, is now a healthy adult who often speaks publicly on behalf of AIDS patients.

Martin Gaffney. Gafney contracted the AIDS virus from his wife Mutsuko Kuniyoshi. Kuniyoshi, like Elizabeth Glaser, got infected via a tainted blood transfusion and had a child contract HIV from his mother in utero. Read Less