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Linda Grinberg
Other Names:Linda G. Melnick
Birth Name:Linda Gwen Grinberg
Birth Date:May 26, 1951
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California
Death Date:May 27, 2002
Death Place:Los Angeles, California
Occupation:Film librarian, HIV/AIDS activist

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

Early life and education

Grinberg was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of film executive Sherman Grinberg and Edna Trachtenberg Grinberg.[1] She graduated from California State University, Northridge.[2]

Career

Grinberg was CEO of the Sherman Grinberg Film Libraries,[3] "the world's largest independent film news and stock footage library".[4] She was a co-founder and vice-president of the International Documentary Association.[5] [6]

Grinberg sold the film archive in the 1990s to focus her full-time attentions on HIV/AIDS activism and fundraising. 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). 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,[9] [10] especially for late-stage patients with limited prognoses.[11] [12] "The side effects of AIDS [are] death," she told KQED about the urgency of her work. "We can gather data until hell freezes over, but we will be burying people daily. At a certain point we have to act."[13]

Grinberg was honored with the Project Inform Activism Award in 1996.

Personal life

Grinberg married journalist Philip Melnick in 1974; they divorced in 1981[14] Grinberg caught HIV in the 1980s,[15] [16] and was diagnosed with AIDS in 1991. With access to new treatments, she lived far longer than her doctors expected.[17] She died at home in Los Angeles, from a heart attack related to her AIDS diagnosis and treatment,[18] in 2002, aged 51 years.[19]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dee . Lynda . 2002-09-01 . Tribute: Linda Grinberg . 2022-06-06 . POZ . en.
  2. News: May 30, 2002 . Linda Grinberg, 51; Film Librarian and Activist Against AIDS . 23 . Los Angeles Times . June 6, 2022 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: Kaufman . Bill . 1985-04-07 . New Mileage from Old Footage . 68 . Newsday (Nassau Edition) . 2022-06-06 . Newspapers.com.
  4. Web site: Linda Grinberg . 2022-06-06 . WebMD . en.
  5. Web site: Guenette . Robert . 2002-09-01 . Remembering Linda Grinberg: A Thoroughbred of Commitment, Compassion and Continual Optimism . 2022-06-06 . International Documentary Association . en.
  6. Web site: Buzzell . Linda . 2002-03-01 . The Origins of the IDA: Organization Founded to Promote, Support and Celebrate the Documentary . 2022-06-07 . International Documentary Association . en.
  7. James . John S. . November 5, 1999 . Activism today: the Coalition for Salvage Therapy: Interview with Linda Grinberg . AIDS Treatment News . 330 . 2–4 . 1052-4207 . 11367171.
  8. Web site: AAB Advocacy . 2022-06-06 . AIDS Action Baltimore . en-US.
  9. Grinberg . Linda . September 1998 . What Price Efavirenz? . GMHC Treatment Issues . The Body.
  10. Grinberg . Linda . Torres . Gabriel . March 1999 . Lipodystrophy Update -- HAL in 2001: A Fat Oddity . GMHC Treatment Issues . The Body.
  11. News: Getty . Jeff . September 23, 1999 . Getting AIDS Drugs to Patients on Edge . 28 . Bay Area Reporter . June 6, 2022 . Internet Archive.
  12. Book: Daemmrich, Arthur A. . Pharmacopolitics : drug regulation in the United States and Germany . 2004 . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-8078-2844-1 . 107 . Internet Archive.
  13. News: Sharp . Matthew . January 2, 1997 . A New Nuke: 1592U89 . 21 . Bay Area Reporter . June 6, 2022 . Internet Archive.
  14. Web site: Phil Melnick, Beachhead founder, dies . 2022-06-06 . Free Venice Beachhead.
  15. News: Collins . Huntly . Vedantam . Shankar . 1996-03-18 . A New Drug in the Race with Death . 1, 8 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2022-06-06 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: Driscoll . James . 1996-07-07 . Private Sector Research Delivers . 181 . The Los Angeles Times . 2022-06-06 . Newspapers.com.
  17. News: Stone . Keith . 1996-09-09 . AIDS Drugs Restoring Hope . 15 . The Daily Advertiser . 2022-06-06 . Newspapers.com.
  18. Gonsalves, Gregg. "AIDS activism's message in a bottle. (Last Word)." Research Initiative/Treatment Action!, vol. 8, no. 1, summer 2002, pp. 30+.
  19. Laird, Cynthia. "Memorial Set for Project Inform Board Member Linda Grinberg" Bay Area Reporter (August 1, 2002). via GLBT Historical Society, Online Searchable Obituary Database

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