Margaret Frances "Peggy" Ferro (March 19, 1949 – November 4, 1998) was an American healthcare activist and nurse's aide.
[2] She was a nurse's aide in 1990, when she received a needlestick injury while clearing a table in an emergency room.
She worked for changes in the law to require hospitals to use safety needles to prevent similar injuries in others.
[6] "Peggy wanted to make sure women with AIDS were not invisible," her partner told the Bay Area Reporter in 1998.
Ferro died from AIDS in San Francisco in 1998, at the age of 49, survived by her partner Cindy Chang.