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Finding Aid to the National Lawyers Guild AIDS Network Records, 1985-1993
MSS 94-25
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Collection Title: National Lawyers Guild AIDS Network records
Date (inclusive): 1985-1993
Collection Number: MSS 94-25
Creators :
National Lawyers Guild
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 carton and 1 box
Linear feet: Linear feet: 1.3
Repository: The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management,
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
Phone: (415) 476-8112
Fax: (415) 476-4653
Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/contactform.html
URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/
Abstract: This collection consists of publications, position papers, correspondence, and files
on particular issues with which the National Lawyers Guild AIDS Network had been involved. The two main issues
documented in this collection are HIV in prisons, and immigration of persons with HIV/AIDS; topics that are not
well documented elsewhere.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the
library's online catalog:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/ .
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], National Lawyers Guild AIDS Network Records, MSS 94-25, The UCSF Library and Center
for Knowledge Management, Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
AIDS Legal Referral Panel, MSS 96-01
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public
access catalog.
National Lawyers Guild AIDS Network
AIDS (Disease)--United States--History
AIDS (Disease)--Activists--United States
The National Lawyer's Guild AIDS Network Records were donated by Eileen Hanson to UCSF in April 1994.
Arranged to the folder level.
Processed by William Walker and Josue Hurtado.
The National Lawyers Guild (Guild) was an association of over 10,000 progressive attorneys, law students, legal
workers and jailhouse lawyers with over 200 chapters across the country, In 1985 Guild activist Paul Albert
formed the National Lawyers Guild AIDS Network (NGLAN) in response to the inadequate legal services many Persons
With AIDS were experiencing at that time. NGLAN was set up to provide legal assistance to people with HIV and to
AIDS service organizations around the country through a network of attorneys and legal workers. It also
advocated for progressive public policy, and educated individuals and groups about HIV and the law. It was
organized as a separate body, with its own Board, policies and fiscal program, but was clearly a subsidiary of
the Guild. Albert was appointed director, a position he held until he left five years later. Eileen Hansen,
another legal activist and community organizer, was hired to direct the Network in 1990.
NGLAN's primary work involved referral of HIV positive individuals to the AIDS organization nearest them, and
referral of AIDS organizations to cooperating local lawyers. Their major educational contributions included the
preparation and publication of the AIDS Practice Manual, a comprehensive resource on HIV law for attorneys, and
the Exchange, a newsletter published three times a year for lawyers, people with HIV, and other interested
parties. NLGAN closed in 1993.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of publications, position papers, correspondence, and files on particular issues with
which NGLAN had been involved. The two main issues documented in this collection are HIV in prisons, and
immigration of persons with HIV/AIDS; topics that are not well documented elsewhere.
The materials are organized into four series according to subject: AIDS Network Records, Issues, AIDS and
Immigration, and AIDS in Prison.