Community in a Time of Crisis: Yale, New Haven, and HIV/AIDS, 1981-1996

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Article about pediatric AIDS, highlighting Leetha (Fraulino) Filderman, from Fairpress, December 10, 1986

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Article about pediatric AIDS, highlighting Leetha (Fraulino) Filderman, from Fairpress, December 10, 1986

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Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

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1986

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Community in a Time of Crisis: Yale, New Haven, and HIV/AIDS, 1981-1996

Leetha Fraulino, the coordinator of the AIDS Program at the Yale New Haven Hospital, spends a great deal of time educating people about the illness. She explains that they tested the children of high risk mothers. Telling somebody that the test came back positive was a difficult conversation that required compassion. When this article was published in 1986, HIV+ children who lived to be 5 or 6 years old were the best-case exceptions.

Article about pediatric AIDS, highlighting Leetha (Fraulino) Filderman, from Fairpress, December 10, 1986