South Africa: SA Aids Activist, David Ross Patient Has Died

23 September 2017

World renowned South African AIDS activist David Ross Patient, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1983, died on Friday evening after contracting pneumonia following an operation.

In a post on Patient's Facebook page, David's partner Neil Orr confirmed that Patient had died.

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