The great Barbara fassbinder

Barbara fassbinder is a great health care nurse, she help many survive but unfortunately she passed out from HIV/AIDS, at a late night work shift in the hospital, a old man came in and was dying, Barbara try to help him and he didn’t survive. At that night, she was blood drawing and in 1986 gloves did not exist yet and as the blood seek through the gauze pad, that blood seek through Barbara because she had a cut from gardening and that AIDS seek through her and she stop working because, even though she had AIDS, she still help people that had AIDS.

so in 1990, she went public hoping that sharing her story would help others avoid her fate.

She became a strong advocate of universal precautions and spoke to many health care groups throughout the country. Their wonderful response gave her strength and purpose. She appeared before Congress regarding AIDS issues and was often in the media. She received national recognition in 1992 by the Surgeon General and the Department of Health for her efforts in AIDS education. She was honored as Iowa Nurse of the Year in 1991 by the Iowa Nurses Association and the American Nurses Association for her courage and commitment to AIDS education and public welfare. Barb served on the National Health Care Reform Committee and Iowa State Commission on AIDS.

Barb died in 1994 at the age of 40. Her legacy of courage and concern for others has been a precious gift to the many lives she has touched.