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history, medicine, aids, united states, oral history, chronology, time line, collections, library, community, san francisco, 1980s

The AIDS History Project has been established by a collaborative group with the aim of safeguarding and preserving material related to the history of AIDS in San Francisco. This website, published by the University of California at San Francisco, provides a home page for the project, which is working to compile a history of the establishment of community support and care networks in the city during the first years of the AIDS crisis. These services have come to be known as the 'San Francisco model' of AIDS care, and this site publishes details of the current research being undertaken into this area and links to resources on the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco. There is also a useful chronology of events, spanning from the advent of the disease in the United States in 1981, until 1988 when the epidemic in the United States reached its peak.