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Musician Arthur Russell dies of AIDS. Model and jewelry designer Tina Chow dies of AIDS. Actor Anthony Perkins dies of AIDS. Actor Robert Reed, famous for playing TV dad Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch dies of AIDS.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, 88.4 million [71.3–112.8 million] people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 42.3 million [35.7–51.1 million] people have died of HIV. Globally, 39.9 million [36.1–44.6 million] people were living with HIV at the end of 2023.
| Gia Carangi | |
|---|---|
| Died | November 18, 1986 (aged 26) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Cause of death | AIDS-related complications |
| Occupation | Model |
| Years active | 1978–1983 |
In Africa, HIV–the virus that causes AIDS–had jumped from chimpanzees to humans sometime early in the 20th century. To date, the earliest known case of HIV-1 infection in human blood is from a sample taken in 1959 from a man who'd died in Kinshasa in what was then the Belgian Congo.
He was famously friends with first lady Nancy Reagan while Ronald Reagan was in office. Rock Hudson became the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness when he passed in 1985.
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