PH 265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: University Of California, San Francisco, Internal Medicine, Behavioral Medicine
2 Apr 2020
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At the onset of hiv/aids, the medical establishment was still celebrating the infectious disease triumphs of the 19th and 20th centuries, and nurturing the perception that agents of disease could be readily identified and overcome. It is less often discussed the critical role that mental health professionals had in the response to hiv/aids. Community leadership, peer teaching, and community-based care played important roles in the san francisco response to hiv/aids, as did the department of public health. Well before the aids epidemic, san francisco was known for its exceptionally vibrant and civically established gay communitu. The uprising against a police raid at new york"s stonewall inn in 1969 was a turning point for gay rights activism. Considerations in mental and behavioral health were central to the san francisco model. Aids was as much a psychological crisis as it was a medical crisis.
