one of those men is cleve jones. in many ways he is responsible for this quilt that you see behind me. we're going to be talking to him later in the show. we'll also talk to sharon stone, a celebrity activist who for more than 16 years has become a face and champion for aids research. let's get started. of course, a lot has changed in 30 years. we now know what causes this disease and we do have medicines to treat it, up to a point. but as people have told me over and over again, don't be fooled. it is 2011, but here at the epicenter of this epidemic in atlanta, in many ways it still feels almost like 1981. for the last 18 years, angel vucetic has walked through these doors at the ponce de leon clinic in atlanta. it's the aids clinic. >> this building is more like a day hospital. we have five main clinics nine subspecialty clinics, all the aids services organizations are on site here for support. >> reporter: it started as a small infectious disease clinic on the grounds of grady memorial hospital 25 years ago. when

at that time a man named cleve jones was living in san francisco, watching h his friene one by one.t was then he came up with the idea for this quilt. he left san francisco shortly after that. it was too painful for him. but he returned to the city he loved in the fall of 2010. >> welcome to san francisco. enjoy your stay. >> thank you. >> great to meet you. it's an honor, actually. >> reporter: on the streets of san francisco, cleve jones is often treated like a celebrity. but 30 years ago on these same streets, in the city's castro district, jones and other gay then men were living with the nightmare of a new disease that had no name. >> by 1985, almost everybody i know was dead or dying. we lost 20,000 people in this town. >> reporter: this deadly disease finally got a name, human immune know deficiency virus, the virus that causes aids. long before the days of any lifesaving drug cocktails. for victims of this disease, chances of survival, slim. >> we cried every day for ten years in this neighborhood. we buried loved ones every week in this neighborhood. >> reporter: cleve was

enjoy your stay. >> great to meet you. >> reporter: on the streets of san francisco, cleve jones is oftenets, in the city's castro district, jones and other gay men, were living with the nightmare of a new disease that had no name. >> by 1985, almost everybody i knew was dead or dying. we lost 20,000 people in in county. >> reporter: this deadly disease finally got a name, human immu know deficiency virus, hiv, the virus that causes aids. this was long before the days of any life-saving drug dock dals. for victims of this disease, chances of survival, slim. >> we cried every day for ten years in this neighborhood. we buried loved ones every week in this neighborhood. >> reporter: cleve was determined to bring attention to what was happening. in 1983, he co-founded the san francisco aids foundation. four years later, he stitched the first panel of the aids quilt in this very building. that panel was for his best friend, marvin feldman. >> we wanted to reveal the humanity behind the statistics. we wanted to show that every single one of these people mattered. >> reporter: in 1985, he was di

on the streets of san francisco, cleve jones is often treated like a celebrity, but 30 years ago on these the city's castro district, jones and other gay men were living with the nightmare of a new disease that had no name. >> by 1985, almost everybody i knew was dead or dying. we lost 20,000 people in this town. >> this deadly disease finally got a name, human immunodeficiency virus, hiv, the virus that causes aids this was long before the days of any life saving drug cocktails and for victims of this disease, chances of survival slim. >> we cried every day for ten years in this neighborhood. we buries loved ones every week in this neighborhood. >> reporter: cleve was determined to bring attention to what was happening. in 1983, is he cofounded the san francisco aids foundation. four years later, he stitched the first panel of the aids quilt in this very building. that panel was for his best friend, marvin feldman. >> we wanted to reveal is the humidity behind the statistics and show that every single one of these people mattered. >> in 1985, he was diagnosed with hiv. eight years later,