Elizabeth Glaser

Elizabeth Glaser, a former teacher, was a major American AIDS activist and child advocate. She was married to actor and director Paul Michael Glaser. While Giving birth to her first child, Ariel, she hemorrhaged and was transfused with seven pints of blood. Four years later she found out she had been infected with the AIDS virus. She had unknowingly passed the virus to her daughter through breast milk and to her second child, Jake, during pregnancy. Glaser co-founded the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in 1988. Glaser's work raised public awareness about HIV infection in children. Her foundation became the global leader in the fight to end AIDS in children both domestically and globally. Her son, Jake, carries on his mother's legacy by his continued work with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.