Documenting the toll of AIDS
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-me-aids2jan02,1,214986.story?coll=la-news-science&ctrack=1&cset=true
By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
01/02/2008
"It is important for us to see not only how AIDS was treated medically but to document historically people's responses to it . . . who the heroes are, who the villains are. Because how we treated this epidemic may give us some guidelines on how we treat the next one, whether it's avian flu or whatever comes up," said Michael Palmer, an archives project director at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives