Fresh Air, Fauci talked about how a big part of his job has been studying HIV, and during the ’80s that led him to visit bathhouses and gay bars in San Francisco and New York.“This was the very, very early years of the outbreak.
We were seeing these large numbers of mostly gay men who were formerly otherwise well, who were being devastated by this terrible, mysterious disease,” he told Gross. “And it was so concentrated in the gay community thatI really wanted to get a feel for what was going on there that would lead to this explosion of a sexually transmitted disease.”So that’s exactly what he did. “I went to the Castro District.