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some patients to as few as two pills
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the disease. Through the years, he

they can visit, meet others living

of the Center for Disease Control's

worked hard to help those suffering

with the disease, be fed and attend

report of five cases of Pneumocysr/s

from the disease.

health education classes.

pneumonia in Los Angeles gay

Now, Gilead is taking the crusade
for simpler HiV treatment to the

next level. The company has joined

men, which is now known as the

Jerry has been working as a

Marianne became a registered nurse

fi rst official reporting of AIDS

volunteer at the Food Basket, which

in 1964, and over the years she

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), to

cases. In July of 1981, the Nsw York

provides food and supplies for

has witnessed a lot ofdeatii. She

create the world's first one-pill-a-day

Times published the world's fi rst

people living with AIDS. He started

started to work with the HIV/AIDS

treatment for AIDS, The new single

mainstream media story about the

there in 1998, v/hen he was a client.

community in 1989 as a volunteer

tablet regimen is a combination of

at the Center for Living with Dicing.

Viread, Emtriva and BMS' Sustiva

"rare cancer" in gay men. The HIV

forces with another drug company,

virus wasn't discovered by scientists

As a member of the HIV Planning

until 1983, and two years later, a

Council of Santa Clara County, he

being part of this sad thing in our

test for the virus was available. By

offered guidance on where to

community. At the time, I didn't

1986, 42,000 Americans, mostly gay

allocate $2.4 million in federal

know anyone who had HIV, but

Bischofberger notes: "Science is

men, had been diagnosed with AIDS

funding for medical care, pharmacy,

eventually, my life became full of

a long-term effort. Projects can

and about 27,000 had died. Since

case management, food, housing,

people with AIDS."

take 10 or more years. You can't

the early 1980s, there have been a

dental services, mental health,

countless number of people who

substance abuse and more.

and could receive FDA approval later
this year.

pay attention to where the wind is
Marianne has spent countless hours

blowing at one particular moment. If

at the bedside of people dicing

you believe in something, you have

In 2003, the county honored Jerry

from complications with AIDS. "I

to keep moving toward your goal."

with the David Burgess Award, which

consider the death bed an alter, a

have dedicated their lives to fighting
this disease.

"I really wanted to have a roll in

This section highlights a few local

is given each year foroutstanding

very scared place." After her many

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pioneers in the fi ght against AIDS.

contribution in service to work in the

years of dedication to the HIV/AIDS

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fi eld of HIV and AIDS in Santa Clara

community, she doesn't want any

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people who have made a difference

And during the last decade, Jerry

'Don't make me out to be better

in the fi ght against this brutal

has worked with the HIV positive

than anyone else. There were many

of California San Francisco and

disease.

incarcerated population, helping

people in the community who did

Executive Director of the UCSF

them with medical care and legal

just as much. 1 did this out of love. I

AIDS Health Project. He was one

issues.

did nothing extraordinary."

of the founders of the AIDS Health

Jerry Larsen,
52, moved to

■ • the University

Project (AHP) in 1984 and has been

■ San Francisco

Marianne

from Montana

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in 1983, right at

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the beginning

, coordinator

of the AIDS epidemic. "In those fi rst

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years, I watched fi fty of my close

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Executive Director since its inception.

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AHP was born of the recognition that

the head of

the AIDS epidemic has a tremendous

research and

emotional and psychological

development at

impact both on individuals and the

personal friends pass from the

Center, 62, is well known in the San

biopharmaceutical company Gilead

disease," he said. Jerry has been

Jose community as a tireless worker

Sciences, based in Foster City. In

HIV positive for 21 years, surviving

in the HIV/AIDS community. The

this role, Bischofberger leads a team

Dr. Dilley was one of many staff

through the black cloud of a death

Living Center is a safe place for those

of research and clinical scientists

members at San Francisco General

when there were few treatments for

living with the disease, a place where

who are working to develop

Hospital in the 1980s that watched

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Dr. Dilley has published three books,serves on

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the editorial boards of two leading AIDS-related

Jim Beall,54, is on the

academic journals, and has served on boards to

Santa Clara County

advise the state, city, and national professional

Board of Supervisors.

organizations about HIV and mental health.

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In June 2005, Dr. Dilley was selected as the faculty

1980, right before HIV/

recipient of the UCS Chancellor's Award for Gay
Lesbian Bisexual and/orTransgender Leadership.
In April 2005, he received the Richard L, Schlegel

AIDS emerged in the

National Legion of Honor Visionary Leader Award

was successful with getting approval for $375,000

in getting funding for the Neil A. Christie Living

from American University in Washington, DC for

to fund more HIV testing sites in the county. This

Center, which opened in 2002. ON

local gay community. He's been an advocate for

was done at a time when the county doesn't have

funding to fight the disease for years. In June, he

an extra dime to spare. Beall was also instrumental

his contributions to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender communities in their fight against HIV
and AIDS.

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