Film Archive
New York - The Early Years
Length: 05:18
In this interview, dr. Alvin Friedman Kein in New York, gives his personal recollection of how it was being an AIDS doctor in the early years of the pandemic in New York around 1981-85. Dr Friedman-Kein was one of the very first medical doctors in New York, who tried to treat the first AIDS patients in the city, fifteen years before the anti retro viral treatment was available.
Patient Zero
Length: 06:16
In this interview, dr. Alvin Friedman Kein, a pioneer AIDS doctor in New York, gives his personal recollection of how he met and treated one of the first known AIDS patients, Gaetan Dugas, a Canadian Air steward, who flew between Montreal, Toronto, San Fransisco, New York and many other cities. He was a gay man has a vast network of casual sexual relations with gay men, in the period when HIV started to spread. Mr Dugas died of AIDS in the early 80´s and was called “Patient Zero” in the media.
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