Gia Carangi LOVED children. Consider making a donation in her honor to the “Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation“.
Elizabeth Glaser
November 11, 1947 – December 3, 1994
Elizabeth Glaser was an American AIDS activist and child advocate married to actor and director Paul Michael Glaser. She contracted HIV very early in the modern AIDS epidemic after receiving an HIV contaminated blood transfusion in 1981 while giving birth.
Like other HIV infected mothers, Glaser unknowingly passed the virus to her infant daughter, Ariel, through breastfeeding. Ariel was born in 1981 and died in 1988. The Glasers’ son Jake, born in 1984, contracted HIV from his mother in utero, but has lived into adulthood.
Mourning the loss of her daughter and determined to save her surviving child Jake, along with other HIV positive children, Glaser co-founded the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in 1988, with friends Susan DeLaurentis and Susie Zeegen.