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Facing the Truth
Ariel Jacobs
Ariel Jacobs died of AIDS in 1998 at age 15. ()
Jacobs family
The Jacobses, during Sabbath prayer with relatives, are still angry at Cedars-Sinai. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Dawn Hartaway
Dawn Hartaway at 18, two years before she died of AIDS in 2001. Hartaway, born prematurely, was transfused with HIV-tainted blood at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. ()
Candy Pride
Candy Pride weeps as she talks about her daughter, Dawn Hartaway. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Kristen Lee
Kristen Lee a few months after she was born at Cedars-Sinai, where she was transfused with HIV-tainted blood in 1980. ()
Kristen Lee
Kristen Lee, 26, was told in 1995 she had AIDS. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Frankie Spalding
Frankie Spalding was infected at Cedars-Sinai in 1987, two years after the HIV test made it possible to screen blood for the virus. ()
Frankie Spalding
Frankie Spalding at home in North Carolina. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Noelle Simeon
In 1982, at 13 days old, Noelle Simeon received a blood transfusion. Her family later learned that she had contracted HIV from it. ()
Noelle Simeon
I really have no bad feelings about Cedars, Noelle Simeon says of her tainted transfusion. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Troy Anthony Blocker
Troy Anthony Blocker, son of Shevawn Avila. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Shevawn Avila
Just before her son Troy died, Shevawn Avila spoke to him words of comfort from the Bible. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Sam Kushnick
Sam, left, and Sara Kushnick at 18 months. ()
Sara Gorfinkel
Sara Gorfinkel received a stuffed dog, one of a set given by her parents, when she and Sam were 2. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
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