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Title: Jeff Getty, AIDS ACTIVIST
Post by: Robert on October 15, 2006, 11:43:26 pm
I remember reading about JEFF GETTY, AIDS ACTIVIST (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/15/BAGB8LPSQ61.DTL) when he received his baboon marrow transplant in 1995.  I found it a very humbling experience then and today still feel his energy and devotion.  I am truly greatful for all he and others before him have done for our cause. 

robert
Title: Re: Jeff Getty, AIDS ACTIVIST
Post by: Matty the Damned on October 15, 2006, 11:58:04 pm
Vale Jeff Getty.

MtD
Title: Re: Jeff Getty, AIDS ACTIVIST
Post by: allopathicholistic on October 16, 2006, 12:03:53 am
"He wasn't easy to work with,'' said Michael Lauro, an organizer who teamed with Getty in the advocacy groups ACT UP Golden Gate and Survive AIDS. "That's how people with great vision, great hearts and great drive are like. He could get things done.''

He sounds like one tough cookie ....And noble too - To advocate new treatments for other people, knowing full well those therapies were useless to himself, well, there are no words for that  ... Thank you Robert
Title: Re: Jeff Getty, AIDS ACTIVIST
Post by: Life on October 16, 2006, 12:05:23 am
Jeff - Thank you for what you have done for us..................

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Title: Re: Jeff Getty, AIDS ACTIVIST
Post by: Eldon on October 16, 2006, 12:31:43 am
Hey Robert,

Thanks for sharing this with us. Truly this was an act of courage on Jeff's part for HIV/AIDS research. My hat is off to him for going through with this transplant.

http://whyfiles.org/007transplant/getty1.html (http://whyfiles.org/007transplant/getty1.html)


Make the BEST of each Day!
Title: Re: Jeff Getty, AIDS ACTIVIST
Post by: ademas on October 16, 2006, 09:57:13 am
RIP, Warrior Jeff.
Thanks for the inspiration.
xox
Title: Re: Jeff Getty, AIDS ACTIVIST
Post by: AlanBama on October 17, 2006, 06:14:19 pm
RIP Jeff..... :'(