Imagine a World - AIDS in San Francisco

AIDS in General
Background
In July 1981 an article in The New York Times reported the outbreak of a rare cancer among about forty gay men in New York and California (San Francisco AIDS Foundation: About AIDS - Main Page). Very few people realised the implications that this so-called cancer would have. Since then it has been discovered that it was not a cancer but the virus HIV and it has become a global epidemic. HIV and AIDS impacts people of all ethnicities, genders and sexual orientations. It is now the second leading killer of people aged 25 to 44 in the United States. The AIDS epidemi…