April
5 – Activist Keith Cylar dies of AIDS-related causes. Cylar helped create ACT UP’s Housing Committee and its spin-off organization Housing Works. (2004)
9 – Princess Diana, in an effort to end HIV-related stigma, shakes hands with a person living with AIDS on the new AIDS ward at Middlesex Hospital in London. (1987)
10 – National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day
National Transgender HIV Testing Day
May
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5 – HIV activists kick off the Campaign to End AIDS by leaving 8,500 pairs of shoes outside the White House to signify the daily number of global AIDS deaths. (2005)
18 – HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
19 – National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
28 –Actor, writer and director Charles Ludlam dies of AIDS-related PCP pneumonia at age 44. His obituary is the first to appear on the front page of the New York Times to specifically list AIDS as a cause of death. (1987)
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