In the 1990s, Dr. Glenda Gray was an activist and medical student, fighting to end segregation in the hospitals of apartheid South Africa and mobilize communities around health issues. The burgeoning AIDS crisis soon became the center of her community organizing mission. It later informed her work as a doctor, where she saw the effects of the virus firsthand.

"HIV started to explode in the children's ward where I was working," Gray told me over the phone. "Literally overnight, one in two children born at the hospital were HIV infected. I started my career witnessing the increase and devastation of HIV in children." As an activist, she said, she had to do something: "You can't stand by and watch people die."

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