"Leading AIDS Researcher and Advocate Dies"
United Press International (09/25/93)

San Francisco--Jesse C. Dobson, a leading AIDS activist, has died at
age 36. The cause was pneumonia as a result of AIDS. After being
diagnosed with HIV in 1985, Dobson became a skilled lobbyist and an
expert on AIDS treatment. Frustrated with the slow release of new
therapies, he created an underground network for HIV-infected people
to obtain drugs that are available abroad, but not in the United
States. Dobson was a founding member of ACT-UP Golden Gate, and a
member of the HIV Vaccine Working Group of the National Institutes of
Health. He is survived by his parents, one brother, and one sister.