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News Briefs Obituary: Rebecca LePere -- AIDS Policy ActivistJanuary 15, 2002 Rebecca LePere, a lesbian activist who fought to bring attention to the AIDS epidemic, died Jan. 4 in Berkeley, Calif., after a four-year battle with breast cancer. LePere worked with many Bay Area nonprofits, including the Destination Foundation, Under One Roof, and Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Disease. She served as the managing director of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and as director of operations for Eden Housing Inc., and she was a founding member of Queer and Present Danger, where she organized protests for policy changes to better recognize the epidemic and fund HIV/AIDS research. Her fight with cancer inspired the AIDS Emergency Fund to establish the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund, which gives grants to low-income breast cancer patients. San Francisco Chronicle 01.12.02; Kelly St. John  This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
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