Elizabeth Glaser
Elizabeth Glaser, wife of TV actor/director Paul Michael Glaser, gave birth to their daughter, Ariel, in 1981. Glaser needed a blood transfusion due to complications. She contracted HIV from contaminated blood and passed it unknowingly to Ariel through breastfeeding. Her second child, Jake, was born with HIV. Despite treatment, Ariel died at the age of seven. Glaser then founded the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, a major fundraising and awareness agency for juvenile AIDS. She died as a result of HIV in 1994. Now an adult, Jake Glaser remains a public advocate for HIV patients.
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