At the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic when scores of people were diagnosed or dying of AIDS felt frightened, alone, and abandoned, Dr. Sonnabend was one of the first physicians to see patients, mostly gay men, who had rare forms of PCP [Pneumocystis pneumonia], Kaposi pneumonia, and other infections. In a 1998 POZ magazine interview, he stated, “I realize that I was seeing cases of AIDS-related PCP in the late ’70s. But I first encountered the disease a few months before the first New York Times report in July 1981.”
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GMHC Honors the Life of Joseph Sonnabend, MD, Pioneer and Hero in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Jan. 6, 1933
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