HIV@30: Re-Visiting ‘AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic’

Brought to you by The Columbia Center for Oral History & The HIV Story Project, this 4-part BlogTalkRadio series will re-visit a landmark book,  AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic -- published in 2000. Constructed from 300 hours of audio interviews with over 75 doctors who treated patients infected by HIV/AIDS, listeners can find abridged versions of four of the original interviews here. Then, each Monday in June 2011 at 4pm PST / 7pm EST, we'll conduct follow-up interviews with those same four doctors to hear their take on where we are at as we mark the 30th anniversary of HIV/AIDS this month. The second instament features Dr. Marcus Conant (San Francisco), one of the first physicians to diagnose and treat Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1981. He helped create one of the largest private AIDS clinics and his work contributed to development of some of today’s top HIV medications. He has written over 70 publications on the treatment of AIDS. In his 1995 interview, Dr. Conant discussed his work from the very beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and at its epicenter. When we follow up with Dr. Conant, we’ll ask this co-founder of what is today the San Francisco AIDS Foundation about his continuing journey as a doctor.