The foundation that began as three mothers around a kitchen
table in 1988 is now the leading global nonprofit organization
dedicated to eliminating pediatric HIV and AIDS. Browse this
timeline to learn how it happened. Elizabeth Glaser contracts
HIV through a blood transfusion during childbirth. Elizabeth and
her husband Paul later learn that she unknowingly passed the
virus to her children, Ariel and Jake. After losing Ariel at age
seven to AIDS-related illness, Elizabeth creates the Pediatric
AIDS Foundation with her friends Susie Zeegen and Susan
DeLaurentis. Their goal: Give hope to children and families
affected by HIV and AIDS. Elizabeth and Paul Glaser ask the U.S.
Congress to provide funding to test HIV drugs in children. While
AZT, a promising drug treatment, had already been approved by
the FDA, its potential impact on children was still unknown due
to a lack of research. Professional basketball player Earvin
“Magic” Johnson announces his HIV-positive status and retires
from the NBA. He credits Eliz