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- On December 3, 1994, Elizabeth Glaser died at the age of 47, from complications of HIV/AIDS, at her home in Santa Monica. Her 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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Jan 24, 2022 · Jake Glaser, the son of Elizabeth Glaser and actor Paul Michael Glaser, contracted HIV in utero after his mother was infected during a blood transfusion.
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation was born from the most powerful force of all: a mother’s love for her children. Elizabeth Glaser contracted HIV in a blood transfusion in 1981 while giving birth to her daughter, Ariel.
In 1981, very early in the AIDS epidemic, Glaser contracted HIV after receiving an HIV-contaminated blood transfusion while giving birth. Like other HIV-infected mothers at the time, Glaser unknowingly passed the virus to her infant daughter, Ariel, through breastfeeding.
Dec 4, 1994 · Elizabeth Glaser, who waged a tireless campaign to draw attention to pediatric AIDS after she unknowingly passed the disease on to her daughter and son, died yesterday at her home in Santa Monica,...
Elizabeth Glaser was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, hemorrhaging heavily in her ninth month. Doctors safely delivered her daughter. But Elizabeth’s bleeding wouldn’t stop. And, for...
Mar 21, 1990 · Glaser contracted the HIV virus that causes AIDS in 1981 from a contaminated blood transfusion after the birth of her daughter Ariel. During breast-feeding, she unknowingly passed the virus to...
Dec 8, 1994 · She raised millions of dollars to finance research and to pay for the care and treatment of young AIDS patients. Though she lost a child to AIDS, she never succumbed to discouragement and she...
