Linda Laubenstein

Linda Laubenstein was born on 21 May, 1947 in Boston, Massachussets. She was a doctor (specialist in oncology and hematology) and a clinical professor at the New York University Medical Center and along with Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien, she was one the first people to recognize the AIDS epidemic in its earlier years. Bound to a wheelchair ever since a bout of polio in childhood, she never allowed her condition to keep on her way to treat for her most needed patients, always finding time to commit herself to the cause of discovering more and more (she created the first AIDS conference in New York, in 1983) about the then-new disease that killed several people and scared a whole generation. She died on 15 August, 1992.