Elizabeth Glaser Research Paper

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Elizabeth Glaser took a stand for the research and prevention of AIDS by founding the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation, fundraising money for research grants and spreading the awareness of AIDs. Elizabeth Glaser was a mother of two, she studied at the University of Wisconsin and Boston University and she worked as a teacher and director at the Los Angeles Children's Museum. She was married to Paul Michael Glaser an actor and director. She Founded the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation when she lost her daughter to AIDS. These actions resulted in the research of AIDS and how to prevent it. Mrs.Glaser contracted HIV in 1981 from a blood transfusion while giving birth to her daughter Ariel, she …show more content…

Many mothers passed AIDS to their children when giving birth or breastfeeding: like Mrs.Glaser when she contracted AIDS when giving birth to her daughter from a blood transfusion and spread it to her son through breastfeeding. When she lost her daughter she asked her friends to help her start the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation where they fundraise to help pay for research to try to save her son. They also worked to informed people of what AIDS actually is and how anyone could get it; because a lot of people misunderstanding AIDS and thought it was transmitted from the contact with gay men so they persecute the gay community because of the fear of getting infected by someone in the gay community. Once Mrs.Glaser started to advocate and inform people what AIDS truly was, the government started to invest more into the research and prevention of AIDS. Which started the national AIDS education campaign. Which helped people know what AIDS was and how it was transmitted because people feared that it was transmitted through casual contact. As time went by, the government started to impose test used to indicate if the blood donated was infected. They also started to approve a antiretroviral treatment. To this day, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation help women and children worldwide in preventing and treating AIDS. Mrs.Glaser made a huge impact on the research and prevention of AIDS because without her advocating for the research she wouldn't have been able to help all the women treat and prevent it and reduce the transmission of AIDS from mother to child, at the same time they wouldn't have been able to start the children on antiretroviral

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