for decades, thousands of HIV survivors have struggled in silence, traumatized
by the loss of SO MANY LOVED-ONES
AND by LIVING FOR YEARS WITH A DEATH SENTENCE HANGING OVER THEIR HEADS.
San Franciscans living with HIV by age and gender
Well over half of San Franciscans living with HIV is over 50 years of age, many of whom were diagnosed before highly active antiretroviral therapy turned the disease from a terminal illness into a chronic health condition.
San Francisco's HIV diagnoses, deaths and survivors, 1980-2017
During the 15 years between the first diagnosis of HIV and the discovery of effective HIV treatment, 14,168 died from the disease in San Francisco. By 1996, when highly active antiretroviral therapy arrived, many of the 7,581 San Franciscans who were still living with the virus would become the survivors of 'the AIDS Generation.'
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