Long Beach Study - Lesbians and AIDS, Cathy Reback, 1989
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains materials on several organizations concerned with women and AIDS, most specifically the Women's AIDS Network (WAN), which was affiliated to some extent with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF); the Women & AIDS Risk Network (WARN), which was an outreach project of the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse[NIDA] for three years [12/87-10/90]; and WORLD (Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases), a newsletter full of personal stories of HIV+ Women. Also included is an undated statement on AIDS from the California branch of the National Organization For Women (NOW) and single folders of information from several regional groups including: Long Beach, California; Boulder, Colorado; Boston, Massachusetts; the Washington, D.CIRCA and Maryland area; Portland, Oregon, and even England. The Portland, Oregon folder includes pamphlets and material on 1987 conference "Love Carefully ... Stop AIDS: A Free Conference for Women". The condom and button from this folder have been moved to the Ephemera Series.
Dates
- Creation: 1989
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English
Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Sub-Series: 41 Folders : Carton 6 Folders 6/21-6/47 ; Carton 7 Folders 7/1-7/14
Repository Details
Part of the UCSF Archives and Special Collections Repository
UCSF Kalmanovitz Library
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco CA 94143-0840 USA
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/ask-an-archivist/