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Cox was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Spencer Cox
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Education
He attended Bennington College for three years, where he studied theater and literature.
Career
He was involved in the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Coalition to Unleash Power and the Treatment Action Group. He helped facilitate the production of protease inhibitors. He came out as gay while he was in high school.
He moved to New York City in 1989, to pursue acting.
He joined the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT Uttar Pradesh) that year and was soon thereafter diagnosed with Human Immunodeficiency Virus. In 1992, Cox joined with other ACT Uttar Pradesh members to form the Treatment Action Group, which worked to further treatment advances in Human Immunodeficiency Virus. He worked with the Food and Drug Administration"s Anti-Viral Advisory Committee to hasten the approval time for new Human Immunodeficiency Virus medications, including the new drug class of protease inhibitors. Cox designed a clinical trial to examine the effectiveness of ritonavir, which led to its approval.
Cox founded the Medius Institute for Gay Men"s Health, with the mission of researching issues related to aging gay men, in 2006. With a lack of funding, Cox abandoned the effort and began using methamphetamine.
He moved back to Atlanta to recuperate.
He returned to New York in 2012, and appeared in the documentary film How to Survive a Plague. He also wrote for POZ. Cox died at The Allen Hospital in Upper Manhattan, on December 18, 2012, of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-related causes, after he stopped taking his Human Immunodeficiency Virus medications. Saint Luke"s-Roosevelt Hospital Center renamed their Human Immunodeficiency Virus clinic, formerly the Center for Comprehensive Care, as the Spencer Cox Center for Health, in June 2013.
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United States