AIDS activist Spencer Cox, a longtime member of the AIDS community, has died. He was 44.
It was confirmed to the New York Times by his brother Nick that Cox had passed away from AIDS-related causes at the Allen Hospital in New York City. Mark Harrington, the executive director of a group Cox helped form called Treatment Action Group, says that Cox had struggled with an addiction to methamphetamines and stopped taking his AIDS medication months ago.
"He saved the lives of millions, but he couldn't save his own," Harrington says.
Born in Atlanta in 1968, Cox moved to New York City after studying at Bennington College in Vermont for three years. It was after he moved to the Big Apple that he discovered he had HIV. In 1989, he had joined the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, also known as Act Up, and then went on to help form Tag in 1992.
Cox,...
It was confirmed to the New York Times by his brother Nick that Cox had passed away from AIDS-related causes at the Allen Hospital in New York City. Mark Harrington, the executive director of a group Cox helped form called Treatment Action Group, says that Cox had struggled with an addiction to methamphetamines and stopped taking his AIDS medication months ago.
"He saved the lives of millions, but he couldn't save his own," Harrington says.
Born in Atlanta in 1968, Cox moved to New York City after studying at Bennington College in Vermont for three years. It was after he moved to the Big Apple that he discovered he had HIV. In 1989, he had joined the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, also known as Act Up, and then went on to help form Tag in 1992.
Cox,...
- 12/21/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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- 12/12/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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- 9/17/2012
- by brian
- The Backlot
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