Sir Elton John to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from The Rockefeller Foundation

... musicians, Sir Elton John is well known globally as a leading advocate and philanthropist on behalf of people with HIV/AIDS. In the early days of the AIDS crisis, he was one of the first to realize that it was necessary to de-stigmatize HIV/AIDS ...

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