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From KQED.

From KQED.

From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

Coming up on forum, it's been 40 years since the CDC first reported cases of a deadly rare lung infection in five previously healthy gay men.

The infection came later to be understood as a symptom of HIV-AIDS, the syndrome that has now claimed more than 700,000 American lives and 30 million worldwide.

We'll hear reflections from those who knew and cared for the earliest and sickest patients

in an era of scarce public health information and

widespread homophobia. Join us.

This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. On June 5, 1981, a CDC report noted a rare type of pneumonia in five gay men in Los Angeles, and that two of the men had died. These would later become known as the first documented cases of AIDS.

In this hour, we look back at those early days 40 years ago when there was little knowledge of where the illness came from or how it spread, fear, and widespread homophobia as people

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