{"id":17534,"date":"2024-11-30T17:51:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17534"},"modified":"2024-11-30T19:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T19:25:22","slug":"a-cornelius-baker-champion-of-h-i-v-testing-dies-at-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17534","title":{"rendered":"A. Cornelius Baker, Champion of H.I.V. Testing, Dies at 63"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Working inside the government and out, he lobbied to improve the lives of people with H.I.V. and AIDS, particularly those who belonged to minority groups.<\/p>\n

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A. Cornelius Baker, who spent nearly 40 years working with urgency and compassion to improve the lives of people with H.I.V. and AIDS by promoting testing, securing federal funding for research and pushing for a vaccine, died on Nov. 8 at his home in Washington. He was 63.<\/p>\n

Gregory Nevins, his companion, said the cause was hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n

Mr. Baker \u2014 who was gay and who tested positive for H.I.V. \u2014 became active in Washington in the 1980s, during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. He soon distinguished himself as an eloquent voice for people with H.I.V. and AIDS. A policy wonk and health-care expert, he held positions in the federal government and with nonprofits, including serving as the head of a clinic for the L.G.B.T.Q. community.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was very kind, very embracing and inclusive \u2014 his circles, both professionally and personal, were the most diverse I\u2019ve ever seen, which was driven by his Christian values,\u201d said Douglas M. Brooks, a director of the Office of National AIDS Policy during the Obama administration. \u201cHis ferocity appeared when people were marginalized, othered or forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 1995, as the executive director of the National Association of People with AIDS, he helped establish June 27 as National H.I.V. Testing Day. \u201cThis effort was designed to help reduce the stigma of H.I.V. testing and to normalize it as a component of regular health screening,\u201d Mr. Baker wrote in 2012 on the website of FHI 360<\/a>, a global health organization for which he served as technical adviser.<\/p>\n

As an adviser to the National Black Gay Men\u2019s Advocacy Coalition from 2006 to 2014, Mr. Baker worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health to help fund research for the care of Black gay men with H.I.V. and AIDS.<\/p>\n

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Working inside the government and out, he lobbied to improve the lives of people with H.I.V. and AIDS, particularly those who belonged to minority groups.A. Cornelius Baker, who spent nearly 40 years working with urgency and compassion to improve the lives of people with H.I.V. and AIDS by promoting testing, securing federal funding for research and pushing for a vaccine, died on Nov. 8 at his home in Washington. He was 63.Gregory Nevins, his companion, said the cause was hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.Mr. Baker \u2014 who was gay and who tested positive for H.I.V. \u2014 became active in Washington in the 1980s, during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. He soon distinguished himself as an eloquent voice for people with H.I.V. and AIDS. A policy wonk and health-care expert, he held positions in the federal government and with nonprofits, including serving as the head of a clinic for the L.G.B.T.Q. community.\u201cHe was very kind, very embracing and inclusive \u2014 his circles, both professionally and personal, were the most diverse I\u2019ve ever seen, which was driven by his Christian values,\u201d said Douglas M. Brooks, a director of the Office of National AIDS Policy during the Obama administration. \u201cHis ferocity appeared when people were marginalized, othered or forgotten.\u201dIn 1995, as the executive director of the National Association of People with AIDS, he helped establish June 27 as National H.I.V. Testing Day. \u201cThis effort was designed to help reduce the stigma of H.I.V. testing and to normalize it as a component of regular health screening,\u201d Mr. Baker wrote in 2012 on the website of FHI 360, a global health organization for which he served as technical adviser.As an adviser to the National Black Gay Men\u2019s Advocacy Coalition from 2006 to 2014, Mr. Baker worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health to help fund research for the care of Black gay men with H.I.V. and AIDS.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17536,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17537,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17534\/revisions\/17537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}