Paul Michael Glaser played one tough cop as half of TV's popular *Starsky & Hutch*, but nothing could prepare him for the battles he faced in real life. In 1981, his wife Elizabeth contracted the HIV virus from a blood transfusion and unknowingly passed it onto their two children, Ariel and Jake. Tragically, Ariel passed away four years after being diagnosed with the virus. Determined not to let her son suffer the same fate, Elizabeth co-founded the Pediactric AIDS Foundation, championing the prevention of HIV infection until her death in 1994. Now 23, Jake is carrying on his mother's legacy of AIDS activism, choosing to focus his message on high school and college students. "I love speaking to everybody, I really do," he tells Rachael." There's never a wrong set of ears to talk to. But it's kids that are 25 and under, they're going be leading this generation into the future. They're going to be the decision makers, they're going to be making the policies, they're going to be the next doctors. And as good as it is to get the donations, as good as it is for the executives and the people higher up in the world helping as much as they are, the message needs to get to those younger kids, because they're our future." Jake says that he admires his mother not only for the struggles she endured but also for the great progress she made in bringing the issue of pediatric AIDS to the country's attention. "It's amazing to me," he says. "I think to myself, could I ever possibly even come close to measuring up to what my mother came to accomplish. When I think about it, she was such a free person, she loved helping people - but at the end of the day she came back home and just was able to let it all go. Jump in the pool with her clothes on, take a shot of tequila and just do her thing. For me, it sets such a great example to be able to take it on myself and understand that this is a very big part of my life, and it's something that I'm very passionate about, and I never want to stop doing it. But at the same time, we just need to enjoy life." Rachael asks Jake about the role his father has played in his life. "It's interesting because everyone sees him as Starsky from *Starsky and Hutch*," he says, "but to me he's just this goofy dad. One of the things that I'll always give to him and I thank him for every day is that he's always made decisions in my life that I couldn't imagine would have been easy for him as a father to make. But now that I look back on it I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for that -- it was decisions that saved my life. He's my best friend -- I go to him for everything." Jake explains that despite the advances that have enabled people like him to live with the HIV virus, there's still more to be done. "It's very easy to get comfortable" he says, "and it's very easy to get to a point where it's like, there are all these great medications out there and all these great treatments for people and kids are living healthy lives, but it's not without the virus. There are still social issues, like can I have a family?" Jake tells Rachael that another concern of many with the virus is dating, but that he's learned to gain a comfort with his own life and it's no longer an issue for him to let others know about his condition. "It's something I will tell you," he states, "but when it comes down to it, if you're going to walk away, then it's your loss."