unsuccessful treatments, she eventually returned home to die in her cottage on a fjord in November 1977. She was cared for by Karen Strandby Thomsen. She was called back for more tests in December and returned to the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen where she remained until she died of AIDS-related Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia on 12 December 1977. In 1984 her blood was tested for HIV in Denmark. The test was negative. In 1987, blood was shipped to the United States, where it was tested with two different systems. Both tests were positive for HIV. See also Timeline of early AIDS cases References Further reading [Website] Photographs of the real people from Randy Shilts' history of the AIDS crisis "And the Band Played On" Shilts, Randy, And the Band Played On, St. Martin's Press, 1987 1930 births 1977 deaths Danish women physicians AIDS-related deaths in Denmark Danish surgeons People from Thisted Deaths from pneumonia in Denmark 20th-century Danish physicians Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 20th-century women physicians Date of birth missing 20th-century surgeons 20th-century Danish LGBT people