ABSTRACT
In 1984, three years after the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed in Los Angeles and New York City, Dr. Sara Kellerman, then commissioner of the New York City Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Alcoholism Services ( D M H M R A S ) , "ordered city-wide training and mandated services for people with and at risk for H I V (sic) as a prerequisite to qualify for the hundreds of millions of dollars of city, state and federal money routinely poured into hundreds of institutions throughout New York [City]" (McFarlane, 1996, pp. 2-3). Rodger McFarlane was appointed to direct the two education and training contracts that were awarded to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Gay Men's Health Crisis (McFarlane, 1996).
