Nkosi Johnson: who is the child that symbolizes the fight against AIDS to which Google devotes its doodle

Remember the strength of a child who died at age twelve and became an emblem against the disease.

Through a Doodle that recreates one of his emotional interventions in public, Google remembers on February 4 the birth of Nkosi Johnson, the South African boy who died at age twelve from complications from HIV-AIDS.

Nkosi became an activist who made visible the ravages of the disease and who fought, above all, to avoid social discrimination to all those who suffer from this disease. More in his country, South Africa, one of the most decimated by AIDS.

The child had to face two different fronts at the same time: that of illness and that of social rejection. Melville State Elementary School, the neighborhood where he lived in Johannesburg, did not admit him as a student. Then, he stood next to his adoptive mother, Gail Johnson and went to the Supreme Court of his country. He was finally accepted.

His admission set an outstanding precedent because, from that moment, an educational regulation that prohibits discrimination against students suffering from the disease was established in South Africa.

When Nkosi was born on February 4, 1989 in the South African capital, the doctors who treated him detected that he was seropositive and did not give him more than nine months of life. But the boy exceeded that prognosis for several years.

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The boy was adopted by Gail Johnson, after the death of his biological mother in 1997. Johnson, a volunteer worker in the health centers of South Africa, not only gave him his last name, but also his support for his entire facet as an activist defending the Children's rights