Records of the 6th International Conference on AIDS are included primarily because Volberding, along with UCSF's John Ziegler, was Co-Chair of this Conference, and nearly everyone in the AIDS Program was involved in planning and conducting the conference. The records preserved here document the planning, development, and course of the convention, with particular emphasis on the San Francisco community's involvement and the immigration issue which hung over the entire conference (series 4).

The record group is organized into four series: