A man who has Kaposi’s sarcoma, an early manifestation of AIDS, describing his swollen lymph glands to health workers in a San Francisco clinic, 1983
Mickey Pfleger, photographer
Women with AIDS were predominantly poor and African American or Latina. They were excluded from clinical trials, and the official AIDS definition did not include diseases specific to women until 1993.
Sex education has always been a contentious topic in families, schools, and religious organizations. This 1986 textbook, published in San Francisco, was one of the first to tackle how to inform K–12 students about AIDS.