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

The APNH Quilt

Quilt by Andrea Miller, commissioned by Co Campbell for 25th anniversary of APNH.  The names written along the borders of the quilt represent people in the APNH and broader New Haven communities who died of AIDS. 

In 2008, APNH (formerly AIDS Project New Haven) marked its 25th anniversary. The commemoration was bittersweet: it meant that 25 years had passed without a cure for HIV/AIDS and that, in Connecticut alone, thousands of beloved friends and family members had died. But it also signified that the community itself had survived and that its members had mobilized powerfully to take care of one another. To acknowledge the occasion, APNH commissioned this quilt, which honors the memory of local community members lost to AIDS. 
 
We encourage you to pause here, and to remember that the history of HIV/AIDS is more than a story about research and clinical practice. We mourn the lives that have been lost, and acknowledge the strength, creativity, and solidarity of those who continue to forge the path ahead.