Who is Nkosi Johnson?

HIV campaigner who died aged 12 is commemorated by Google Doodle

Nkosi Johnson
When he died in 2001, Nkosi Johnson was the longest-surviving child born with HIV
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Today’s Google Doodle on the search engine’s home page commemorates the life of Nkosi Johnson on what would have been the Aids campaigner’s 31st birthday.

Born HIV positive on 4 February 1989 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Johnson campaigned for the rights of children with Aids before the disease took his life in 2001 at the age of just 12. At that time he was the longest-surviving child born with HIV.

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