The Joseph A. Sonnabend papers, dating 1963 to 2004, contain interviews, lectures, press clippings, correspondence, published and near-print materials, legal case files and depositions, organizational records, clinical trial records, grant applications and research proposals, scientific research, article drafts, charts, graphs, notes, conference materials, and ephemera, documenting his work as a clinical researcher and community activist in the vanguard of the fight against AIDS.
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Biography (note)
Joseph A. Sonnabend is a physician, laboratory scientist, clinical researcher, and community activist who contributed immeasurably to the fight against AIDS.
Author
Sonnabend, Joseph A.
Title
Joseph A. Sonnabend papers, 1963-2004.
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Biography
Joseph A. Sonnabend is a physician, laboratory scientist, clinical researcher, and community activist who contributed immeasurably to the fight against AIDS. As a pioneer in community-based research, he co-founded the AIDS Medical Foundation (later to become the American Foundation for AIDS Research, or amfAR) and the Community Research Initiative on AIDS, as well as the People with AIDS Health Group. In addition to creating community organizations, Dr. Sonnabend treated patients and conducted AIDS research for the first twenty-three years of the epidemic in New York City, and helped create the first safe-sex guidelines.
Finding aids
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Location of other archival materials
Related collections include the People with AIDS Coalition Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library; and the Interferon Collection, Archives and Manuscripts Collection, Wellcome Library, London, England.