Eve van Grafhorst (17 July 1982 – 20 November 1993) was one of the first Australian children to be infected with HIV via a blood transfusion.

[1] Van Grafhorst was born prematurely in 1982, and required eleven blood transfusions to save her life.

When she bit another child,[3] the state medical officer for New South Wales said van Grafhorst should be barred from daycare until she was older.

[3] After her condition became known, parents of other preschoolers threatened to withdraw their children if she was re-enrolled, saying that the young girl posed a grave threat of infection.

Her story had been widely reported throughout the world and, on her tenth birthday, Eve, dressed as a radiant bride, was sent a letter and autographed photograph of Diana, Princess of Wales.