List of television characters who are HIV-positive

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HIV positive characters from television shows or made-for-television movies.

Years	Title	Network	Character name	Actor	Notes
1990-2005	Eastenders	BBC	Mark Fowler	Todd Carty	Heterosexual male; former runaway who returned to his family after contracting HIV; died of an AIDS-related illness.
1991-1993	Life Goes On	ABC	Jessie	Chad Lowe	white male teenager, infected by girlfriend.
1991	Thirtysomething	ABC	Peter Montefiore	Peter Frechette	gay male, infected by his one of his partners
1994	The Real World	MTV	Pedro Zamora	Pedro Zamora	openly gay, infected by one of his partners, famous AIDS educator
1989	The Ryan White Story		Ryan White	Lukas Haas	13-year-old haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from factor VIII
1993	And the Band Played On	HBO	Various	Various	The shows details the original discovery of AIDS and early problems in dealing with the disease
1992	Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story	ABC	Alison Gertz	Molly Ringwald	female, infected during a one night affair
1997	Oz	HBO	Various including Antonio Nappa, James Robson, Nat Ginzburg and Clarence Seroy	Various	men, infected while in prison, HIV positive inmates are isolated in Unit E, a cell block exclusively for HIV positive inmates not allowed to be amongst General inmate population
1999	ER	NBC	Jeanie Boulet	Gloria Reuben	African-American female adult, infected by husband (5 episodes)
2005-	General Hospital	ABC	Stone Cates	Michael Sutton	white male teenager
2005-	General Hospital	ABC	Robin Scorpio	Kimberly McCullough	white female teenager, infected by her boyfriend Stone Cates
2005	Nip/Tuck	FX	Gina Russo	Jessalyn Gilsig	mid 30's sex addict, had a child before she knew she was infected with the virus, but the baby did not contract it
2001-2005	Queer As Folk	Showtime	Vic Grassi Ben Bruckner James "Hunter" Montgomery	Jack Wetherall Robert Gant Harris Allan	Vic was Michael Novotney's uncle. Ben was Michael's boyfriend and a college professor. Hunter was a former hustler who became Ben and Michael's foster son.