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February 02, 2006
Before It Had a Name: Talking with Joyce Wallace, the first doctor to study AIDS in women
Dr. Joyce Wallace says she was the first person--in the world--to study AIDS in women. At her Greenwich Village clinic in early 1981, she found two cases of Karposi's Sarcoma, a disease estimated to appear just once in 10 million people per year. AIDS did not yet have a name, but Joyce saw in the two cases hints of an epidemic, and jumped in her car with a bag of condoms and syringes. Over the next twenty years, most of them with New York City prostitutes, Joyce forged a new and gritty front in the study of AIDS. Burnt out by death, she now works with developmentally disabled adults.
Posted by Michelle at February 2, 2006 12:57 PM