Tony Fama, host of 50PlusPrime describes the segment in which Ewell is featured: "In 2007, HIV Positive Magazine reported that just five states have facilities properly equipped to care for people living with HIV/AIDS. The San Antonio AIDS Foundation is the lone organization in Texas identified by the report as providing a full array of social and medical services for HIV/AIDS clients. David Ewell is the 48-year-old baby boomer who heads up SAAF House, as it’s called. For the one point one million people in the United States living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, there is no greater advocate."

Ewell was born in 1961 in Cambridge, a small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. At the age of eight years Ewell’s family moved to York, Pennsylvania, where he lived until he attended Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania receiving a BBA in Business Management. He moved to Texas in 1983. Prior to SAAF he was a staff accountant for six years at Psychological Corporation of Harcourt Brace and Company.

In 1991 Ewell joined SAAF as a grant writer and accountant. In 1998 he was named Executive Director. He is responsible for all financial and budgetary issues of the Foundation, as well as having ultimate responsibility for human resources and policies and procedures. He programmatically oversees the nursing, administrative, dietary and adjunctive therapy programs.

Ewell is the liaison with all of SAAF’s major funding agencies and has been an active member of Title I HIV Planning Council, the San Antonio AIDS Council and the HIV Region 8 Consortia.

"I’ve always been impressed with the work of the San Antonio AIDS Foundation, and its commitment to helping people stigmatized by an unforgiving disease and the prejudice that often accompanies it," says Fama. "In launching a program about baby boomers making a difference in their communities, it was an easy and obvious choice to tell the story of David Ewell’s selfless and compassionate work for SAAF."

Where and when to watch: www.50plusprime.com, Sunday, May 16, 2010, 10:30 p.m.