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San Francisco General Hospital, Ward 84/86 Records
MSS 94-61
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Contributing Institution:
University of California, San Francisco Archives & Special Collections
Title: San Francisco General Hospital, Ward 84/86 records
Creator:
San Francisco General Hospital (Calif.)
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 94-61
Physical Description:
7 cartons, 2 boxes
9.55
Date (inclusive): 1981-1991
Abstract: This collection is composed of two record groups: Administrative Records of the AIDS Program at San Francisco General Hospital,
and Records of the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, held in San Francisco in 1990.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/ .
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Bill Walker, Nancy Zinn, and Josue Hurtado
- Date Completed:
- October 2007
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manager of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items
and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials.
[Identification of item], San Francisco General Hospital, Ward 84/86 Records, MSS 94-61, Archives and Special Collections,
UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management, University of California, San Francisco.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Institute for Health Policy Studies – AIDS Resource Program Records, AR 92-20
[finding aid to the collection]
Marcus A. Conant Papers, MSS 98-39
[finding aid to the collection]
AIDS History Project Ephemera Collection, MSS 2000-31
[finding aid to the collection]
AIDS History Project Audio/Video Collection, MSS 2000-32
Constance Wofsy Papers, MSS 98-51
[finding aid to the collection]
This collection was donated by Paul A. Volberding, M.D., in 1995.
Processed by Bill Walker, Nancy Zinn, and Josue Hurtado.
In the largest sense, the AIDS Program at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) refers to the totality of AIDS-related activities
at the hospital. More commonly, however, the phrase is used to refer to the outpatient AIDS Clinic and a number of short-
and long-term research projects loosely connected to it.
The AIDS Program declares that its mission is to:
- Provide comprehensive, expert and humane care to a population which reflects the demographic and clinical spectrum of HIV disease,
- Conduct an aggressive research programs that enables us to improve patient care and the duration and quality of our patient's lives, and
- Share our experience with other health care professionals and the public through our publications and direct educational programs.
Although it is now surmised that people with HIV disease were patients at SFGH as early as 1980, the first documented case,
a man with Kaposi's Sarcoma, was identified in June of 1981. During late 1981 and early 1982 the Kaposi's Sarcoma Clinic was
formed at UCSF by Paul Volberding and Marcus Conant. Patients were evaluated at UCSF and referred to the Oncology Clinic at
SFGH for treatment. Other opportunistic infections in KS patients, primarily pneumocistis pneumonia (PCP), were managed by
Constance Wofsy, Acting Chief of Infectious Diseases at SFGH. These components were brought together when the AIDS Clinic
was opened on Ward 86 in January of 1983. The inpatient ward at SFGH, Ward 5B, was opened a few months later, in June of 1983.
In July of 1983, Dr. Donald Abrams came to Ward 86 from UCSF. Nurse Practitioners J.B.Molaghan and Gary Carr joined the staff
in November of 1983. Volberding, Wofsy (deceased), Abrams, Molaghan and Carr were the nucleus around which the AIDS Program
grew. Eventually, other program elements developed out of the AIDS Ward, including numerous research entities, clinical programs,
and educational components.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection is composed of two record groups: Administrative Records of the AIDS Program, and Records of the Sixth International
Conference on AIDS, held in San Francisco in 1990.
The Administrative Records record group is organized into nine series:
- Correspondence, Dr. Paul Volberding
- Correspondence, Lectures, and Conferences, Dr. Donald Abrams
- Correspondence, Lectures, and Activities, Dr. Constance Wofsy
- Contracts
- Budgets and Finances
- Staff Meetings
- Committees
- SFGH Ward 84 Documents
- Other AIDS Related Documents.
The Sixth International Conference on AIDS record group is organized into four series:
- Planning by Committees
- Other Planning, Administration, and Execution
- Primary Conference Staff
- United States Immigration Ban on Persons with AIDS.
More detailed descriptions of the record groups are found in the Series Description/Container List section of the finding
aid.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
AIDS (Disease)--Social Aspects--United States
AIDS (Disease)--California--San Francisco
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for
AIDS (Disease)--Prevention
AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects
AIDS activists--United States
San Francisco General Hospital (Calif.)
Volberding, Paul