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AIDS at 30: Interview With Chief of HIV/AIDS at SF General - Treatment Past, Present and Future

June 6, 2011, 4:12 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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As part of KQED's coverage of the 30th anniversary of the first official report of what later came to be known as HIV, The California Report's Scott Shafer interviewed San Francisco activists and caregivers who experienced the epidemic during its … Continue reading »

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Read the Original 1981 CDC Report on HIV

June 3, 2011, 2:45 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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Sunday will mark the 30th anniversary of the first official notice of the virus that would soon become known as HIV. In 2006, for the 25th anniversary, The American Journal of Public Health reprinted the original report from Morbidity and … Continue reading »

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Audio/Video: As AIDS Hits 30, Taking Stock of Where We Are

June 3, 2011, 1:59 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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In the early 1990s, I moved to the Castro. Until then, ensconced in my heterosexual bubble, as it were, I'd been only vaguely aware of the scourge of AIDS. But this new neighborhood — it felt haunted. Cadaverous men, leaning … Continue reading »

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