Thursday, February 26, 2015 4pm to 5:20pm
About this Event
530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122
http://tiny.ucsf.edu/ammannThe first discovery of AIDS in infants and children and blood transfusion associated AIDS at UCSF were instrumental in defining the extent of the epidemic. The scientific advances in HIV/AIDS that occurred over the next two decades were remarkable resulting in the near eradication of HIV in infants in the US and transforming an acute and fatal infection in adults to a chronic and manageable one. But even as these advances occurred benefiting many millions of people worldwide, women and children were too often excluded, resulting in a global epidemic that is now composed of over 50% women and children and a secondary epidemic of AIDS-related orphans that numbers in the tens of millions.
Co-sponsored by the Bay Area History of Medicine Society.
This lecture is free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided.