Claire Rappoport

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I began participating in a community advisory board in 1989 after learning of my diagnosis through a blood donation. I was naïve and just said yes when asked if I would speak on a panel. From that point on, I became a female spokesperson at a time when there were not a lot of women who knew that they had HIV, or if they did, were less willing to speak about it. I am pleased to have survived this long and bring a sense of collective history of HIV to the table as well as personal experience. I am interested in most aspects of HIV and have served on many working groups and research and advocacy projects over the last 23 years. Most recently I have begun to serve on the AIDS Malignancy Consortium, a group that runs clinical trials on people with HIV who develop cancers (HIV and non-AIDS defining cancers).