Nkosi Johnson was a South African activist and public speaker who fought for the rights of children living with HIV/AIDS. He was born in 1989 in Soweto, South Africa, and was the first child to be born with HIV
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Nkosi Johnson was a South African child with HIV and AIDS who greatly influenced public perceptions of the pandemic and its effects before his death at the age of 12. He was ranked fifth amongst SABC3's Great South Africans. At the time of his death, he was the longest-surviving child born HIV-positive in South Africa.