Early and highly influential AIDS activist Spencer Cox dies aged 44
Cox co-founded TAG (Treatment Action Group) and was a spokesman for ACT UP, both major HIV/ AIDS organisations in the USA. He died this morning at Columbia Presbyterian hospital.
Cox was diagnosed with HIV soon after leaving college, becoming a spokesman for ACT UP.
According to his obituary on the ACT UP website, Cox “schooled himself in the basic science of AIDS and became something of an expert, a ‘citizen scientist’ whose ideas were sought by working scientists. In the end, Spencer wrote the drug trial protocol which TAG proposed for testing the promising protease inhibitor drugs in 1995. Adopted by industry, it helped develop rapid and reliable answers about the power of those drugs, and led to their quick approval by the FDA.”
Between 1994 and 1999 as director of the HIV Project for TAG, he undertook groundbreaking work in drug trials designs.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/12/18/early-and-highly-influential-aids-activist-spencer-cox-dies-aged-44/
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To anyone who thinks otherwise. HIV still kills.
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Beautiful man, inside and out.
You will have plenty of other angels with you though.
His work at TAG was invaluable in drug trial design, treatment advocacy. 
