Elizabeth Glaser was an American AIDS activist and child advocate married to actor and director Paul Michael Glaser.
11 Facts About Elizabeth Glaser
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Elizabeth Glaser contracted HIV very early in the AIDS epidemic after receiving an HIV-contaminated blood transfusion in 1981 while giving birth.
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Elizabeth Glaser was born November 11,1947, in New York City and raised in Hewlett Harbor, New York.
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Elizabeth Glaser became the exhibit director of the Los Angeles Children's Museum.
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Elizabeth Glaser graduated in 1965 from what is the Lawrence Woodmere Academy.
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In 1981, very early in the AIDS epidemic, Elizabeth Glaser contracted HIV after receiving an HIV-contaminated blood transfusion after giving birth.
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Elizabeth Glaser entered the national spotlight as a speaker at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, where she criticized the federal government's under-funding of AIDS research and its lack of initiative in tackling the AIDS crisis.
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Elizabeth Glaser's son Jake, born in 1984, contracted HIV from his mother in utero, but has remained relatively healthy due to a mutation of the CCR5 gene that protects his white blood cells.
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Elizabeth Glaser is as an ambassador for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, for which he speaks to at-risk children around the world, and mentors HIV-positive youth in Africa.
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The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is a major force in funding the study of pediatric HIV problems and tackling juvenile AIDS, both domestically and globally.
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Martin Gaffney - Gaffney contracted the HIV virus from his wife Mutsuko Gaffney who, like Elizabeth Glaser, was infected via a blood transfusion and had two children contract HIV from their mother in utero.