Hydeia Broadbent started speaking publicly about her experiences as someone with HIV/AIDS when she was a young child. “I want people to know that we’re just normal people,” a 7-year-old Broadbent told ...

Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist who gained media attention for being a part of America’s “first generation of children born HIV positive” in the late 1980s, died Tuesday. She was 39.

Hydeia Broadbent, known for raising awareness for HIV/AIDS since she was a young child, has died, her father said on Facebook. She was 39 years old. “With great sadness, I must inform you all that our ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist known for her inspirational talks in the 1990s as a young child to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born with, has died.