Patrick Spencer Cox (March 10, 1968 – December 18, 2012) was an American HIV/AIDS activist.
He helped facilitate the production of protease inhibitors, which revolutionized AIDS care in the 1990s.
He joined the AIDS activist group ACT UP that year and was soon thereafter diagnosed with HIV.
Cox founded the Medius Institute for Gay Men's Health in 2006, concerned with issues faced by gay men, including loneliness, depression and substance abuse.
[2] Cox died at The Allen Hospital in Upper Manhattan, on December 18, 2012, of AIDS-related causes, after he stopped taking his HIV medications.