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Joseph Adolph Sonnabend (born 6 January 1933) is an Afrikaans physician, scientist and HIV/AIDS researcher, notable for pioneering community-based research, the propagation of safe sex to prevent infection, and an early multifactorial model of AIDS.〔 As one of the first physicians to notice among his gay male patients the immune deficiency that would later be named AIDS, during the 1980s and 1990s he treated many hundreds of HIV-positive people. During the height of the AIDS crisis, Sonnabend helped create several AIDS organisations, including the AIDS Medical Foundation (now amfAR),〔〔 the nonprofit Community Research Initiative (now ACRIA),〔〔 which pioneered community-based research, and the PWA Health Group, the first and largest formally recognised buyers' club. Sonnabend became controversial for maintaining his view that HIV was not the sole cause of AIDS over a decade after the virus's discovery〔 but he is widely respected as a pioneering and compassionate clinician and researcher.〔 ==Background== Joseph Sonnabend was born in 1933 to a physician mother and a university professor father in South Africa. He trained in infectious diseases at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.〔 During the 1960s he conducted research at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, where he worked under Alick Isaacs, a pioneer of interferon research.〔 He is known to have fathered two sons in the 1960s.〔 His sister is Yolanda Sonnabend, the world-renowned theatre designer and artist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07818/yolanda-sonnabend )〕 In the early 1970s Sonnabend moved to New York City to be an associate professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. After losing his interferon research grant he worked at Kings County Hospital Center and as Director of Continuing Medical Education at the Bureau of VD Control for the New York City Department of Health.〔〔 In 1978 he started a private clinic for sexually transmitted infections in Greenwich Village,〔 for which he was renowned.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Sonnabend」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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