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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.

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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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