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Bookmark or Share- First U.S. AIDS death: Robert Rayford, 16, died in 1969 long before the ...The boy, Robert Rayford, died on May 15, 1969, in St. Louis. It would be more than a decade before doctors started seeing similar cases among gay men in New York and California.
- Robert Rayford - WikipediaRobert Lee Rayford (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. This is based on evidence published in 1988 in which the authors claimed that medical evidence indicated ...
- Robert Rayford - U.S. National Park ServiceHow did Rayford contract the virus more than a decade before HIV/AIDS was identified and reached epidemic proportions in the 1980s? How many people had suffered and died from the mysterious disease before it was identified? Rayford’s story helps us better understand the complicated history of HIV/AIDS in the United States.
- Embracing What We Know and Don’t Know About Robert Rayford - TheBodyWe know very little about Robert Rayford, a teenager who died of HIV in 1969. For years, news sources have published the wrong information about the teen.
- Forty years after first documented AIDS cases, survivors reckon with ...Prior to 1981, evidence suggests that Robert Rayford, a 15 year-old boy, died in St. Louis in 1969 from a condition later identified as AIDS.
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