Jeffrey Cobb

Jeff Cobb relates that as being one of the toughest moments of his long career of volunteerism for people with HIV/AIDS, which began in the late 1980s. He has given many years of his time to patients at both Illinois Masonic Hospital and Chicago's Cook County Hospital. He has helped with numerous runs, walks, concerts, fundraisers, retreats, and lately serves as a camp counselor with Families and Children with AIDS Network, "FCAN", www.familiesandchildrensnetwork.org. "I believe the families battling AIDS are probably the most overlooked segment of warriors against this scourge," Mr. Cobb says. "There has been so much unifying support within the gay and lesbian communities but mainstream families and their children so often just go overlooked," he continues, "this occurs quite often through ignorance, but all too frequently through societal shame with just admitting their need for ...