Seven years ago, Argentine native Veronica Prego was a medical school graduate on her way to achieving her dream of becoming a U.S.-trained physician.
That changed one day in January 1983 when she was cleaning an AIDS patient's bedding in New York.
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Ryan's legacy: 'Courage'; 1,500 tell AIDS victim, crusader goodbye; Activists warn fight is far from over
Apr. 12, 1990
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In the end, a mother was left alone to grieve the loss of a son beside a grave at a small cemetery in Cicero, Ind.
But the legacy the young man leaves is his very public life and, on Wednesday, his funeral. Ryan White was the boy whose struggle first forced a school, then a fearful nation, to confront the AIDS epidemic.
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Carving a literary legacy in the face in AIDS
Apr. 17, 1991
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WASHINGTON - Paul Monette sips his tea and talks about how he'll be dead in five years. Probably sooner.
"If I have two more years of good health, boy, would I be happy," he says, without any trace of drama. "A friend said to me, 'Don't you feel you had a five-year plan and you're in your sixth year?' Well, yes, I guess I do."
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Report: AIDS dentist lied to save practice
June 24, 1991
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David Acer, the Florida dentist who infected five patients with the AIDS virus, failed to warn anyone of his condition because he feared he wouldn't be able to sell his practice, a new report says.
The AIDS Alert newsletter, going out to subscribers today, revealed details that flesh out the sketchy picture of Acer - the only medical professional known to have infected patients with AIDS.
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Only AIDS patient on U.S. panel dies
Sept. 10, 1991
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The voice that brought "an urgency and awareness" to the presidential AIDS commission has been stilled.
Belinda Mason, 33 the first HIV-infected person on commission, died Monday in Nashville.
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Is Hollywood's AIDS commitment more fiction than fact?
Sept. 17, 1991
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LOS ANGELES - Is Hollywood hypocritical?
Is the industry that trots out stars, passes out ribbons and throws glitzy galas - all in support of AIDS programs - merely giving lip service?
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Magical career closes; Positive HIV test forces retirement
Nov. 8, 1991
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Los Angeles Lakers guard Magic Johnson, 32, effervescent smile intact, announced his retirement from basketball Thursday because he has tested positive for the AIDS virus (HIV), abruptly ending a certain Hall of Fame career.
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Dack Rambo opens up about AIDS diagnosis
Nov. 26, 1991
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Former Dallas actor Dack Rambo, who announced in September that he is HIV positive, has broken his silence. In a loud way.
His candid story, including a "spicy" sex life with men, women and groups, was in Monday's Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and on today's Maury Povich Show.
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Magic courts readers: Autobiography, safe-sex book
Dec. 6, 1991
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Former basketball star Magic Johnson has signed a three-book deal with Random House to write his autobiography, a safe-sex guide and one on an undisclosed subject.
Due in the spring, the paperback sex book will be a collaboration between Johnson - who quit basketball Nov. 7 after testing HIV-positive - and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.
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AIDS activist Bergalis just 'let go'
Dec. 9, 1991
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Kimberly Bergalis, the college student who contracted the HIV virus from her dentist and then fought vainly for mandatory AIDS testing of health-care workers, died early Sunday. She was 23.
The virus that turned Bergalis into a frail, gaunt symbol of the nation's fear of AIDS finally took her as she slept at her parents' home in Fort Pierce, Fla. Bergalis, too weak to help, had watched her parents and two sisters, Allison, 20, and Sondra, 11, trim the family Christmas tree Saturday night.
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'Everything with grace'; Ashe: AIDS 'just another' crisis to overcome; Star wanted this news to stay 'private'
Apr. 9, 1992
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Arthur Ashe created a defining moment of history in the tumultuous year of 1968 - a black man, an amateur, a lieutenant in the Army, won tennis' U.S. Open.
That Open ushered in the era of professionals in tennis. With amateur Ashe winning, runner-up Tom Okker walked off with the $14,000 top prize.
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Ashe reveals AIDS infection; Unscreened transfusion likely cause
Apr. 9, 1992
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NEW YORK - Tennis great Arthur Ashe ended years of silence Wednesday, announcing he has had AIDS since 1988.
"I have known since the time of my brain surgery in September 1988," said Ashe, 48, reading from a statement at a packed news conference. "Any admission of HIV infection at that time would have seriously, permanently and - my wife and I believe - unnecessarily infringed our family right to privacy."
