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- <title>
- Sep. 23, 1991: Died:Belinda Mason
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 68
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- <p> DIED. Belinda Mason, 33, AIDS activist and writer; of AIDS-
- related pneumonia. Mason became infected with the HIV virus in
- 1987 while receiving a blood transfusion. She became an AIDS-
- rights advocate and was named by President Bush to the National
- Commission on AIDS. She was critical of the Administration,
- saying it treated the AIDS epidemic as a moral issue instead of
- as a public-health crisis.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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