(Joshua Tree, California) Jeff Getty, a prominent AIDS activist who made history in 1995 when he underwent a controversial transplant of baboon bone marrow to treat the disease, died Monday of heart failure at the age of 49.Since being diagnosed with AIDS in the days when the disease still was known as ``the gay cancer,'' Getty was a fierce activist, volunteering to test experimental drugs, getting thrown in jail for protesting against pharmaceutical companies and even throwing a coffin on a hospital lawn to demand organ transplants for patients.
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