University ofCalifornia Berkeley Regional Oral History Office University of California The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California The San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series THE AIDS EPIDEMIC IN SAN FRANCISCO: THE RESPONSE OF COMMUNITY PHYSICIANS, 1981-1984 Volume II Paul Monahan O Malley AIDS AND THE HEPATITIS B VACCINE TRIAL IN SAN FRANCISCO Stephen Follansbee, M.D. INFECTIOUS DISEASE PRACTITIONER IN THE EARLY AIDS EPIDEMIC With an Introduction by Donald I. Abrams, M.D. Interviews Conducted by Sally Smith Hughes, Ph.D. in 1996 Copyright 2000 by The Regents of the University of California Since 1954 the Regional Oral History Office has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnesses to major events in the development of Northern California, the West, and the Nation. Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through tape-recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well- informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. The tape recording is transcribed, lightly edited for continuity and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewee. The corrected manuscript is indexed, bound with photographs and illustrative materials, and placed in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and in other research collections for scholarly use. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account, offered by the interviewee in response to questioning; and as such it is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ************************************ This manuscript is made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. No part of the manuscript may be quoted for publication without the written permission of the Director of The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, 486 Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720, and should include identification of the specific passages to be quoted, anticipated use of the passages, and identification of the user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: To cite the volume: The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Response of Community Physicians, 1981- 1984, Volume II, an oral history conducted in 1996, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2000. To cite an individual interview: [ex.] Stephen Follansbee, M.D., "Infectious Disease Practitioner in the Early AIDS Epidemic" an oral history conducted in 1995 and 1996 by Sally Smith Hughes in The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Response of Community Physicians, 1981-1984, Volume II, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2000. Copy no. Cataloging information THE AIDS EPIDEMIC IN SAN FRANCISCO: THE RESPONSE OF THE COMMUNITY PHYSICIANS, 1981-1984, Volume II 2000, xv, 263 pp. Paul Monahan O Malley. (b. 1946). Public health agent and AIDS researcher; background and "coming out"; work at the San Francisco City Health Clinic; prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases [STDs] in gay men; hepatitis B study, 1977: confidentiality issues, finding participants, first AIDS cases, use of data for AIDS research; educating gay men about AIDS; discusses Selma Dritz, Randy Shilts, Andrew Moss, other early personalities in AIDS medicine; Stephen E. Follansbee, M.D., (b. 1948). Infectious disease physician; background and early career; early discovery and treatment of AIDS and AIDS-related opportunistic infections; seriousness of the AIDS epidemic, linking it to the gay community; Connie Wofsy, Jay Levy and other early AIDS physicians; Physicians for Human Rights groups and County Community Consortium; infection control measures and the AIDS antibody test; comments on San Francisco s medical response to AIDS, later treatments for AIDS, and the future of the epidemic. Introduction by Donald I. Abrams, M.D., Chair, Community Consortium. Interviewed 1996 by Sally Smith Hughes, Ph.D., for the San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.