Elton John
The US Elton John AIDS Foundation was founded in 1992 and the Elton John AIDS Foundation in the United Kingdom, in1993. The foundation funds programs for the prevention of HIV/AIDS, provides services to people at risk of, or living with, HIV/AIDS, and works to end prejudice and discrimination against those with the disease. Since the beginning of the foundations they have raised more than $150 million to support projects in 55 countries world-wide.
John’s inspiration for these charities came after meeting Ryan White, a young teenager from Indiana. White, a hemophiliac, was diagnosed with AIDS in 1984 at the age of thirteen. He contracted the disease from a blood transfusion. Due to the public’s ignorance of the disease White was banned from attending school. His parents sued the school system and the long battle brought the matter to public attention and turned White into a national celebrity and spokesman for AIDS research and public education.
John became friends with White and was with him when he died in 1990 at the age of 18. Thanks, Sir Elton for your enormous contribution in helping to elminate this horrific disease!
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