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New York - The Early Years
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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| Described year | 1981 / 1982 / 1983 / 1984 / 1985 |
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| Theme | Advocacy / Spread |
| Key persons | Alvin Friedman-kein |
| Location | New York / Usa |
| Keywords | aids patients / aids vaccine / anti retro virals / arv / blood banks / burned out / children / combination drug therapy / dermatologist / discrmination / early specimen / gay related immune definciecy disease / gods curse / gods punishment / grid / iavi / jerry falwell / plague / science / scientists / shame / side effects / stigma / the first cases / treatment / vaccine |
| Production year | 2007 |
| Project/Authority | New York University Medical Center |
| Producer | Face of Aids Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden |
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