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| x Terry Pratchett |
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Alzheimer's disease |
Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948) is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels....
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| x Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Poliomyelitis |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ ROH-zə-velt or /ˈroʊzəvəlt/ ROH-zə-vəlt; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) and a central figure in world events...
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| x Michael J. Fox |
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Parkinson's disease |
Michael J. Fox, OC (born Michael Andrew Fox; June 9, 1961) is a Canadian American actor, author, celebrity, producer, activist and voice-over artist. With a film and television career spanning from the late 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty...
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| x Kylie Minogue |
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Breast cancer |
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE ( /ˈkaɪliː mɨˈnoʊɡ/; born 28 May 1968) — often known simply as Kylie — is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, showgirl, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she...
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| x Marion Davies |
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Poliomyelitis |
Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, best known for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst.
Davies was already building a reputation as a popular film comedienne when Hearst took...
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| x Mia Farrow |
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Poliomyelitis |
Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow on February 9, 1945) is an American actress, singer, humanitarian, and fashion model.
Farrow first gained wide acclaim for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the soap opera Peyton Place, and for her...
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| x Alan Alda |
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Poliomyelitis |
Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo (born January 28, 1936), better known as Alan Alda, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV...
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| x Tim Rooney | Poliomyelitis |
Timothy Hayes Yule (January 4, 1947 – September 23, 2006), better known as Tim Rooney, was an American actor and voice actor. He was the second son of actor Mickey Rooney and suffered from a muscle disease known as dermatomyositis.
He was born in...
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| x James Drury |
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Poliomyelitis |
James Child Drury, Jr. (born April 18, 1934) is an American actor probably best known for his success in playing the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, broadcast on NBC from 1962-1971. With 12-14 hour...
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| x Gianni Russo | Poliomyelitis |
Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo (born December 12, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and singer.
Russo was raised in Rosebank, Staten Island. He claims that he has Mafia connections and that his uncle was a soldier in the Gambino crime...
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| x Donald Sutherland |
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Poliomyelitis |
Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, MASH, and Kelly's...
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| x Leo Fender |
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Parkinson's disease |
Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) was an American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short. He left the company in the late 1960s, and later founded two other...
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| x Pope John Paul II |
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Parkinson's disease |
Blessed Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (Polish: [ˈkarɔl ˈjuzɛf vɔjˈtɨwa];) (Wadowice, Republic of Poland 18 May 1920 – Apostolic Palace, Vatican City ♰ 2...
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| x Billy Graham |
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Parkinson's disease |
William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. (born November 7, 1918) is an American evangelical Christian evangelist, who rose to celebrity status as his sermons were broadcast on radio and television. Graham has been spiritual adviser to several United...
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| x Salvador Dalí |
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Parkinson's disease |
Salvador Domènec Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: [səɫβəˈðo ðəˈɫi]), was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain....
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| x Vincent Price |
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Parkinson's disease |
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic performances in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
Price was born in St. Louis,...
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| x Michael Gibson | Parkinson's disease |
Michael Gibson (born October 29, 1980 in Blackburn, England) is a TV presenter and documentary director. He presented the MTV Select television program which aired weekday afternoons on MTV One across Europe.
After spending some time working as a...
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| x Muhammad Ali |
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Parkinson's disease |
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali was both idolized and vilified.
Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali...
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| x Pierre Trudeau |
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Parkinson's disease |
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau CC, CH, PC, QC, FSRC ( /truːˈdoʊ/; French pronunciation: [tʁydo]; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada...
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| x Janet Reno |
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Parkinson's disease |
Janet Wood Reno (born July 21, 1938) is a former Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the first female Attorney General and the second...
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| x Jason Becker |
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
Jason Eli Becker (born July 22, 1969) is an American neo-classical metal guitarist and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released Speed Metal Symphony in 1987...
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| x Stefano Borgonovo | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
Stefano Borgonovo (born 17 March 1964) is an Italian retired footballer who played as a striker.
Born in Giussano, Province of Monza and Brianza, Lombardy, Borgonovo began his professional career with Como Calcio, making his debuts at 17 in a Serie...
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| x Eric Lowen | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | ||
| x Orlando Thomas | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
Orlando Thomas (born October 21, 1972) is a former defensive back who played in the NFL from 1995 until 2001. He played his entire career with the Minnesota Vikings.
Thomas stood 6-1 and weighed 225 pounds during his playing career. He was a second...
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| x Andrew Sullivan |
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HIV infection |
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10, 1963) is a British author, editor, political commentator and blogger. He describes himself as a political conservative. He has focused on American political life.
Sullivan is a speaker at universities,...
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| x Zackie Achmat |
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HIV infection |
Zackie Achmat (born Abdurazzack Achmat in 1962) is a South African activist, most widely known as founder and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and for his work on the behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa.
Achmat...
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| x Vasily Aleksanyan | HIV infection |
Vasily Georgievich Aleksanyan (Russian: Васи́лий Гео́ргиевич Алексаня́н, Armenian: Վասիլի Ալեքսանյան; December 15, 1971 – October 2, 2011) was a Russian lawyer, businessman, and a former Executive Vice President of Yukos oil company. On 6 April 2006...
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| x Mark Anthony | HIV infection |
Mark Anthony (also spelled Marc) (born 24 March 1967) is a former pornographic actor appearing in gay pornography, and also Mr Gay UK heat winner of Club X Cardiff 1993. He had a muscular physique from his Borstal training as a teen and the "intense...
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| x Rebekka Armstrong | HIV infection |
Rebekka Lynn Armstrong (born February 20, 1967) is a Playboy Playmate, whose announcement in 1994 that she was HIV-positive made international headlines.
Armstrong appeared in Playboy's September 1986 issue, and tested positive for HIV in 1989. When...
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| x Miss Arroyo | HIV infection |
Miss Arroyo is the pseudonym of the American pornographic actress Meriesa Arroyo, who tested positive for HIV in March 2004 (along with Jessica Dee and Lara Roxx). The three actresses are thought to have contracted the virus while filming...
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| x Brooke Ashley |
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HIV infection |
Brooke Ashley (born Anne Marie Ballowe in Daegu, South Korea) is the stage name of a pornographic film actress.
Ashley left the industry after finding out on March 29, 1998 that she was HIV positive. She contends that she was infected by Marc...
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| x Rob Astbury | HIV infection |
Rob Astbury (born 1948) is a former Australian television sports journalist who was once Australia's highest paid TV sports presenter and is more recently known for being the ex-lover of variety show legend Graham Kennedy. During a media career...
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| x Joe Average |
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HIV infection |
Joe Average (born 1957) is a Canadian artist who resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Diagnosed HIV+ at age 27, Average made the decision to commit the rest of his life to art, and to challenge himself to live by his art. He was born in Victoria,...
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| x Johnson Aziga | HIV infection |
Johnson Aziga (born 1956) is a Ugandan-born Canadian man resident in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, notable as the first person to be charged and convicted of first-degree murder in Canada for spreading HIV, after two women whom he had infected without...
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| x Andy Bell |
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HIV infection |
Andrew Ivan "Andy" Bell (born 25 April 1964) is the lead singer of the English synthpop duo Erasure. He also has a solo career, with the albums Non-Stop and Electric Blue.
Andy Bell originates from the Dogsthorpe area in Peterborough. His family...
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| x Bianca Biaggi | HIV infection |
Bianca Biaggi is a Brazilian pornographic actress, now retired from the porn industry, who was suspected to have infected Darren James with HIV in Brazil, leading to an industry shutdown.
The ensuing fears of HIV spreading throughout the adult...
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| x Tom Bianchi | HIV infection |
Tom Bianchi (born 1945 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American writer and photographer who specializes in male nude photography.
His nineteen books of photographs, poems, and essays primarily cover the gay male experience.
In 1990, St. Martins Press...
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| x Stephen Bicknell | HIV infection |
Stephen Bicknell (20 December 1957 – 18 August 2007) was a leading British organ builder and writer about the organ.
Bicknell was born in Chelsea. His maternal grandfather was an architect and amateur violinist, and his mother, Sally, was an amateur...
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| x Count Gottfried von Bismarck | HIV infection |
Gottfried Alexander Leopold Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (19 September 1962 – 30 June 2007) was a member of the German House of Bismarck best known for his flamboyance and parties.
Born in Uccle, Belgium, Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen was the...
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| x Dave Brindle | HIV infection |
Dave Brindle is a Canadian broadcast journalist and producer. He is currently hosting and producing unique news programming that links old and new media platforms. In so doing, he has successfully created unique "sharing-of-information" partnerships...
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| x Marvelyn Brown |
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HIV infection |
Marvelyn Brown (born on May 7, 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee is an African American author and AIDS activist whose autobiographical book (The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive) tells her story as a young heterosexual women contracting...
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| x JM J. Bullock | HIV infection |
Jim J. Bullock (sometimes credited as JM J. Bullock) (born February 9, 1955) is an American comedian, stage, television and film actor.
Born James Jackson Bullock in Casper, Wyoming, Bullock was raised in Odessa, Texas in a Southern Baptist home. As...
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| x Edwin Cameron | HIV infection |
Edwin Cameron (born 15 February 1953) is a South African Rhodes scholar and current Constitutional Court justice. Cameron served as a Supreme Court of Appeal judge from 2000 to 2008. He was the first senior South African official to state publicly...
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| x David Carr | HIV infection |
David Carr (November 1933 - August 31, 1959) was a printer from Reddish, Greater Manchester. He died at a relatively young age owing to multiple complications that were at the time inexplicable to his doctors at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. In...
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| x Dawson |
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HIV infection |
Dawson (born June 18, 1973) is an American porn star. His debut performance was in Dawson's 20 Load Weekend. The video went on to win 6 Bareback Video Spoogie Awards including Video of the Year, while Dawson received multiple awards including Best...
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| x Shawn Decker |
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HIV infection |
Shawn Decker was born in Waynesboro, Virginia on July 16, 1975. He was diagnosed with HIV at age 11, through the use of tainted blood products used to treat hemophilia, a bleeding disorder that he was born with. In 1996, he posted a web site called ...
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| x Jessica Dee | HIV infection |
Jessica Dee is a Czech pornographic actress.
She contracted HIV in March 2004, having on-camera, unprotected anal sex with Darren James. Fears of a widespread epidemic based on these infections led to a one month shutdown of the adult movie industry...
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| x Tricia Devereaux |
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HIV infection |
Tricia Devereaux (born January 12 1975 in Illinois, U.S.) is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress.
Devereaux grew up "in a small town a couple hours outside of Chicago," where she had a strict upbringing and attended a private...
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| x Joey DiPaolo | HIV infection |
Joey DiPaolo (born September 5, 1979) is an American AIDS activist. DiPaolo himself is HIV positive.
Joey DiPaolo contracted HIV during a heart surgery in 1984. He required a blood transfusion, and the blood given to him came from an AIDS patient....
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| x Thomas Duane |
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HIV infection |
Thomas K. Duane (born January 30, 1955) is an American politician from New York, currently serving in the New York State Senate. He was the nation's first openly HIV-positive person elected to office.
Duane is the only openly gay member of the New...
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| x John Duran |
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HIV infection |
John J. Duran is an American municipal politician and a member of the city council of West Hollywood, California.
Duran was elected to the City Council on March 6, 2001. He succeeded outgoing City Council member Paul Koretz who was elected to the...
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| x Rudy Galindo |
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HIV infection |
Val Joe "Rudy" Galindo (born September 7, 1969 in San Jose, California) is an American figure skater who competed in both single skating and pair skating. As a single skater, he is the 1996 U.S. national champion and 1987 World Junior Champion. As a...
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| x Gregg Gonsalves | HIV infection |
Gregg Gonsalves is an HIV/AIDS activist and advocate. He began working with ACT UP in 1990. He found out he was HIV+ in 1995. He has authored three reports of HIV and written many publications including the 1992 critical review AIDS research at the...
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| x Roedy Green | HIV infection |
Roedy Green (born Munroe Frederic Compton Green on February 4, 1948) is a Canadian programmer, independent computer consultant, and activist. He is well-known on the Internet for his Java & Internet Glossary, and his popular essay How to Write...
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| x Aki Hakkarainen | HIV infection |
Aki Matti Hakkarainen (born 1983 in Southern Finland) is a Finnish man who spread HIV by having unprotected sex with many women without disclosing his HIV serostatus.
Hakkarainen, who has lived in Rovaniemi since 2002, became infected with HIV in...
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| x Brady Hall | HIV infection |
Brady Hall is an American film director.
He is notable for being involved with the cult film Jerkbeast , as well as numerous independent projects, including Poulterchrist and the short flims Little Farm and Piledriver. His most recent feature...
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| x Greg Harris |
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HIV infection |
Gregory S. Harris is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, having represented the state's 13th district since 2007. He was elected in November 2006, having been selected by the 13th district's Democratic ward committeemen to...
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| x Jerry Herman |
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HIV infection |
Jerry Herman (born July 10, 1931) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the...
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| x Fred Hersch | HIV infection |
Fred Hersch (born October 21, 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a contemporary American jazz pianist who has become a consistent and highly demanded performer on the international jazz scene.
Hersch began playing piano at a very young age, growing up in...
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| x Jennifer Jako | HIV infection |
Jennifer Jako (born 1973) is an AIDS activist, filmmaker, photographer, lecturer and designer. She is the co-director of the documentary film, Blood Lines, a portrait of HIV-positive youth. Following her infection with HIV at age 18, she began...
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