Today on National Black HIV & AIDS Awareness Day we honor the legacy of Katrina Haslip. #NBHAAD #BlackHistoryMonth

From @actupny: “Katrina Haslip was a major force in getting the CDC to change their definition of AIDS to include women. She became an activist after being diagnosed with HIV while in prison."

"She was inspired to fund the organization ACE (AIDS Counseling and Education) after witnessing the discrimination and mistreatment that inmates with HIV/AIDS received."

"After her release from prison, she worked to end the invisibility women living with HIV/AIDS had since their symptoms were not included in the CDC definition of HIV. She was a defendant in the lawsuit against the Federal Government challenging women’s exclusion."

"She passed away in 1992 at the age of 33. A couple of weeks after her death, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that they would change the definition of the disease to include illness unique to women with AIDS.”