Among the first to study the disease in the 1980s, she tried to stop its spread among thousands of New York City prostitutes.
Source: New York Times
Dr. Joyce Wallace, Pioneering AIDS Physician, Dies at 79
Published in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Deaths (Obituaries), Doctors, Prostitution, Tests (Medical) and Wallace, Joyce
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