Obstacles in AIDS Research and Treatment

This newsletter describes some of the obstacles health professionals faced in researching and treating AIDS in its early years, specifically social biases against gay communities, fear within the medical community, and lack of funding from the federal government. Research was conducted using oral histories from the Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. The specific oral histories cited in these papers are listed below.

All articles by Ella S Damty.

Bibliography

These and all of the Oral History Center's interviews can be found from the search feature on the Oral History Center's home page.

Abrams, Donald, Marcus Conant and Andrew Moss. "The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Medical Response, 1981–1984, Volume II." Interview by Sally Smith Hughes in 1992, 1993 and 1995. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1996.

Ammann, Arthur, Paul Volberding and Constance Wofsy. "The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Medical Response, 1981–1984, Volume III." Interview by Sally Smith Hughes in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1997.

Levy, Jay A. "Jay A. Levy: The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Medical Response, 1981–1984 Volume VIII." Interview by Sally Smith Hughes in 1993. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

For more information, listen to the Oral History Center’s podcast, First Response: AIDS and Community in San Francisco.