| 词条 | Spencer Cox (activist) |
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| name = Spencer Cox | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1968|3|10}} | birth_place = Atlanta, Georgia | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|12|8|1968|3|10}} | death_place = New York City | death_cause = AIDS-related causes, having stopped taking his medication | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = ACT UP, Treatment Action Group, Clinical trial design leading to approval of ritonavir | notable_works = }} Patrick Spencer Cox (March 10, 1968 – December 18, 2012) was an American HIV/AIDS activist. He was involved in ACT UP New York and the Treatment Action Group during the height of the AIDS Crisis in New York. He helped facilitate the production of protease inhibitors, which revolutionized AIDS care in the 1990s. BiographyCox was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He came out as gay while he was in high school. He attended Bennington College for three years, where he studied theater and literature.[1] He moved to New York City in 1989, to pursue acting. He joined the ACT UP that year and was soon thereafter diagnosed with HIV.[2] In 1992, Cox joined with other ACT UP members to form the Treatment Action Group, which worked to further treatment advances in HIV. He worked with the Food and Drug Administration's Anti-Viral Advisory Committee to hasten the approval time for new HIV medications, including the new drug class of protease inhibitors. Cox designed a clinical trial to examine the effectiveness of ritonavir, which led to its approval,[2][3] which had a dramatic effect on the treatment of HIV. Cox founded the Medius Institute for Gay Men's Health in 2006, concerned with issues faced by gay men, including loneliness, depression and substance abuse.[2] With a lack of funding, Cox abandoned the effort and began using methamphetamine. He moved back to Atlanta to recuperate.[1] He returned to New York in 2012, and appeared in the documentary film How to Survive a Plague.[1] He also wrote for POZ.[2] Cox died at The Allen Hospital in Upper Manhattan, on December 18, 2012, of AIDS-related causes, after he stopped taking his HIV medications.[1][2] St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center renamed their HIV clinic, formerly the Center for Comprehensive Care, as the Spencer Cox Center for Health, in June 2013.[4]See also
References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/fashion/what-really-killed-spencer-cox-aids-activist.html?pagewanted=all |title=Surviving AIDS, but not the life that followed |work=The New York Times |first=Jacob |last=Bernstein |date=February 22, 2013 |accessdate=October 7, 2013 }} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Spencer}}2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/nyregion/spencer-cox-aids-activist-dies-at-44.html |title=Spencer Cox, AIDS activist, dies at 44 |first=Bruce |last=Weber |authorlink=Bruce Weber (reporter) |work=The New York Times |page=B19 |date=December 21, 2012 |accessdate=October 7, 2013 }} 3. ^{{cite web |first=Gina |last=Kolata |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/12/us/fda-debate-on-speedy-access-to-aids-drugs-is-reopening.html |title=F.D.A. debate on speedy access to AIDS drugs is reopening |work=The New York Times |date=September 12, 1994 |accessdate=October 7, 2013 }} 4. ^{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/12/spencer-cox-center-health_n_3430872.html |title=Spencer Cox Center for Health opens in New York |newspaper=The Huffington Post |date=June 12, 2013 |accessdate=October 7, 2013 }} 8 : 1968 births|2012 deaths|People from Atlanta|HIV/AIDS activists|American health activists|Gay actors|AIDS-related deaths in New York (state)|LGBT people from Georgia (U.S. state) |
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