Life Before the Lifeboat: San Francisco’s Courageous Response to the AIDS Outbreak

This documentary features Volberding in intimate conversations with some of San Francisco’s courageous leaders from the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic when the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco General Hospital was ground zero for the AIDS epidemic. The 30-minute film highlights how political and gay activists, along with health care professionals at SFGH, UCSF & other medical centers, came together to respond to the health crisis and in the process developed what is now a national model of care for this patient population. Produced in 2011.

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