Put simply, AIDS continued to embarrass people. From the start, it had made people uncomfortable, whether they were in government or media, in public health or prominent universities. AIDS was about homosexuals and anal intercourse, and all kinds of things that were just plain embarrassing. And when UCSF opened its own AIDS clinic in the summer, it did not call it a clinic for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, but a center for Adult Immune Deficiency.
