Barry D. Gingell; Doctor, AIDS Activist

Barry D. Gingell, 34, a doctor who campaigned to speed up the testing of experimental drugs for AIDS and to increase access to them. For nearly two years, Gingell was the top medical expert for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, a New York City service and education organization seeking to combat the disease. Gingell served on the National Academy of Sciences, the Society of Infectious Diseases, the Community Research Initiative and the AIDS Resource Center. “Drug research is going at a maddeningly slow pace,” he told the New York Times 15 months ago. “Right now at least 10 to 20 drugs show promising results elsewhere in the world or in the laboratory but many potential therapies aren’t being tested.” In New York on May 29 of the complications of AIDS.