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2 unusual facts about Selma Dritz


Selma Dritz

Thirteen years later, along with Dr. Erwin Braff, the director of her bureau, Dritz took note of a strange new form of pneumonia and a new form of cancer; Kaposi's sarcoma, both of which were afflicting gay men.

Dr. Paul Volberding, former president of the International AIDS Society who helped found the first AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital in the 1980s said of Dr. Dritz: She was an absolutely wonderful person, and played an incredibly important role during those early days of the epidemic...



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