As one of the members of the “first generation of children born HIV positive” in America in the late 1980s, Hydeia Broadbent was a well-known HIV/AIDS campaigner who passed away on Tuesday. 39 was her age.
Hydeia Broadbent cause of death
Early on Wednesday morning, her father, Loren Broadbent, posted a Facebook notice of her passing. He omitted to mention the cause of death.
Hydeia Broadbent obituary
Hydeia’s obituary information is currently not accessible. After his mother, a drug addict, abandoned him in Nevada, Broadbent was taken in by Loren and Patricia Broadbent. Her parents learned she had AIDS just before her fourth birthday and that she had been HIV-positive since birth.
When she was six years old, Broadbent had begun to discuss the illness in public and had shared her experience on several major television shows, such as “Oprah,” “20/20,” and “Good Morning America.”
She also appeared as a special guest on Nickelodeon’s “A Conversation with Magic Johnson” in 1992. Many found the program, which educated young children about AIDS without stigmatizing the illness, to be educational.
