Description
This collection contains correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, conference materials and other administrative and
publicity materials relating to the UCSF Kaposi's Sarcoma (K-S) Clinic, the AIDS epidemic, and AIDS research as pursued by
Dr. Marcus Conant. Materials from the K-S (later San Francisco AIDS) Foundation, and other organizations associated with Dr.
Conant, are also included.
Background
Marcus A. Conant, M.D., professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco, led San Francisco's first
coordinated medical response to the AIDS epidemic. Conant also had a large private practice in San Francisco, and in April
1981 he documented two local cases of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in young, apparently healthy, gay men. KS is a skin cancer which
heretofore had been seen in the United States mainly in elderly men and in patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy. This
unusual presentation in association with other rare infections was being noted simultaneously by physicians in New York and
Los Angeles.
Extent
3 cartons, 2 boxes
4.55
Restrictions
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.
Availability
Collection is open for research.