Jane Fowler is a retired journalist who was diagnosed with HIV in 1991. She now devotes her energies to HIV/AIDS prevention and education, and has given hundreds of presentations at local, state, regional, national and international meetings and conferences. After becoming an activist and public speaker in 1995, Ms. Fowler co-founded the National Association on HIV Over Fifty (NAHOF). She served five years as volunteer co-chairperson on the NAHOF board and later as national coordinator of the group.