Phil wilson black aids biography
Phil wilson black aids biography
Phill Wilson - amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
Phill Wilson
American AIDS activist
For other people with similar names, see Phil Wilson.
Phill Wilson is an American activist who founded the Black AIDS Institute in 1999, and served as its CEO, and is a prominent African-AmericanHIV/AIDS activist.
Career
Phill Wilson's career in activism started after he and his partner, Chris Brownlie, were both diagnosed with HIV in the early 1980s.[1][2] This was at a time when the AIDS epidemic was just starting in the United States, and Wilson has said he did not feel like anyone was bringing together the black community to solve the problem.[3] The country believed that AIDS was a gay disease, and outreach was primarily focused in white, gay communities, when Wilson believed that AIDS affected the black community much more.[4] When his partner died of an HIV-related illness in 1989,[1] Wilson channeled his grief into activism.
In 1981, Wilson was already involved in the gay comm