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The Shanti Project is a non-profit human services agency based in San Francisco and founded in 1974 by Dr. Charles Garfield in Berkeley, CA. [1] Its goals are to provide peer support and guidance to people affected by HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening conditions.
Robert Boyle "Bobbi" Campbell Jr. (January 28, 1952 – August 15, 1984) [1] was a public health nurse and an early United States AIDS activist.In September 1981, Campbell became the 16th person in San Francisco to be diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma, [2] when that was a proxy for an AIDS diagnosis. [3]
Archbishop's Mansion is a historic house built in 1904 and located at 1000 Fulton Street in the Alamo Square neighborhood in San Francisco, California. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The mansion was built for Patrick William Riordan , the second Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco.
Robert Lee Rayford [1] (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), [2] sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.
The San Francisco model of AIDS care began in 1983 in wards 86 and 5B of San Francisco General Hospital. The focus of this model was not only on the health of each patient with AIDS, but also on the well-being of each person. As AIDS was beginning to be treated as a significant epidemic, San Francisco General Hospital recognized the need to ...
The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, often abbreviated to AIDS Memorial Quilt or AIDS Quilt, is a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. Weighing an estimated 54 tons, [ 1 ] it is the largest piece of community folk art in the world, as of 2020.
The same year that Williams and Isbell moved to San Francisco, the first cases of what would later be recognized as AIDS were showing up in gay men living in large cities. In San Francisco, activism surrounding the new disease centered on the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF), founded in 1982. However, SFAF was rooted in a gay community that ...
5B was featured [9] and was the closing film at the San Francisco Doc Stories 2018 film festival. The film premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2019, was set for American premiere at Los Angeles Pride on June 7, 2019, and released nationwide on June 14, 2019, in select theaters.