Linda Grinberg

Linda Gwen Grinberg (May 26, 1951 – May 27, 2002) was an American film librarian and HIV/AIDS activist, based in Los Angeles.

[5][6] Grinberg sold the film archive in the 1990s to focus her full-time attentions on HIV/AIDS activism and fundraising.

[4] She served on the board of Project Inform, was founder of the Coalition for Salvage Therapy,[7] co-founder of the FAIR Pricing Coalition,[8] and founder and president of the Foundation for AIDS and Immune Research (FAIR).

[9] She helped to lead a broad coalition of patients, activists, and medical practitioners, concerned for expediting new treatments for AIDS and ensuring access to experimental therapies,[10][11] especially for late-stage patients with limited prognoses.

[18] She died at home in Los Angeles, from a heart attack related to her AIDS diagnosis and treatment,[19] in 2002, aged 51 years.