HIV Pioneers: Lives Lost, Careers Changed, and Survival

A moving collection of firsthand accounts of the beginning of the HIV epidemic in the 1980s.

Tremendous strides have been made in the prevention and treatment of HIV since the disease first appeared in the 1980s. But because many of those who studied and battled the virus in its early days are now gone, firsthand accounts are at risk of being lost. In HIV Pioneers, Wendee M. Wechsberg collects 29 "first stories" from the outset of the AIDS epidemic. These personal narratives and historic...