Lagena lookabill greene biography definition
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On this day, 20 years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first reported a mysterious illness found in five gay men in Los Angeles. It was the first official notice of a nameless disease that would become known as AIDS, which has so far killed nearly 22 million people worldwide.
Lagena lookabill greene biography definition
There's no cure for AIDS, but advances in treatment have allowed HIV-infected patients to live longer than once dreamed possible.
LaGena Lookabill Greene, 40, has lived with AIDS for almost as long as the United States has.
She was diagnosed with the disease in 1987.
"I was 26 years old, and told I had 2 years to live," she recalls.
Instead, LaGena has defied the experts.
"I have been close to dying about nine different times," she says.
LaGena says she was infected by Tim Richmond--a dashing NASCAR driver who died from AIDS in 1987. She says the only time they had sex was the night she accepted his third marriage proposal.
"I do believe that he knew he was infected when he