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New York - The Early Years

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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.

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