Elizabeth Glaser | |
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| Born | Elizabeth Meyer November 11, 1947 |
| Died | December 3, 1994 (aged 47) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Burial place | Sharon Memorial Park Sharon, Massachusetts |
| Known for | AIDS activist and celebrity spouse Contracted HIV through blood transfusion |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Ariel Glaser (1981–1988) Jake Glaser (b. 1984) |
Elizabeth Glaser (née Meyer; November 11, 1947 – December 3, 1994) was an American AIDS activist and child advocate married to actor and director Paul Michael Glaser. She contracted HIV very early in the AIDS epidemic after receiving an HIV-contaminated blood transfusion in 1981 while giving birth. Like other HIV-infected mothers, Glaser unknowingly passed the virus to her infant daughter, Ariel, who died in 1988.