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Robert Rayford. Robert Lee Rayford [1] (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), [2] sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. This is based on evidence published in 1988 in which the authors claimed that ...
History of HIV/AIDS. False-color scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1, in green, budding from cultured lymphocyte. AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa.
Featured in And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic and portrayed in Milk . [77] 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. [78] Eliana Martinez.
Actor and operatic baritone Ron Richardson dies of complications of AIDS on April 5, 1995, at the age of 43. [134] Character actor Tony Azito dies of HIV/AIDS on May 26, 1995, in Manhattan, New York City, at age 46. [135] Singer and musician Bobby DeBarge dies of AIDS complications on August 16, 1995, at age 39.
On 15 September 1934, Schlumberger's subsidiary in the United States became Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation (SWSC) with offices in Houston, Texas. Conrad was the chairman, and Marcel was the president. In 1936, Conrad died of a heart attack while returning from a business trip to the Soviet Union.
Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases. HIV/AIDS was recognised as a novel illness in the early 1980s. An AIDS case is classified as "early" if the death occurred before 5 June 1981, when the AIDS epidemic was formally recognized by medical professionals in the United States. [1] [2]
Pierre Schlumberger was born in 1914, the son of Marcel Schlumberger, a mechanical engineer, and his wife Jeanne Laurans. [1] Marcel co-founded Schlumberger in the 1920s with his brother, Conrad, a physicist. [1] Pierre was the brothers' only male heir.
U.S. President-elect Bill Clinton spoke to him and thanked him for his work raising awareness on AIDS. Ricky Ray died in 1992 at age 15. Prior to his death, at the age of 13, he made headlines when he planned to marry his 16-year-old girlfriend. Although the decision was supported by his parents, it was later postponed due to Ricky's illness.