JAFFE, HAROLD

Video

Date

November 12, 2015

Description

Dr. Harold Jaffe is interviewed as part of the AIDS Early History at CDC project. Dr. Jaffe has had a leadership role from many different aspects of the disease for his entire career. This interview on the early years of AIDS at CDC though will focus on the first several years beginning in June 1981 with the publication of the first Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among homosexual men.

Source

Interviewed by Dr. Bess Miller