1990
- Gays Note Successes in Congress
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - MONDAY December 24, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A8 Word Count: 474
- David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
- Gay and lesbian rights leaders are hailing the recently completed session of Congress as the most successful ever for gay issues, and they are giving particular credit to key members of the California delegation. Among the critical victories this year were passage of the Hate Crimes Statistics Act, which ordered the Ju
- Mustang Ranch's Girls Find Pleasure in Returning to Work
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - SATURDAY December 22, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A3 Word Count: 848
- Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer
- Sparks, Nevada - The Mustang Ranch, a whorehouse so popular that even the Internal Revenue Service could not keep it closed, reopened this week just in time for the Christmas rush. Although the owners of the newly renamed Mustang Properties Inc. insist on anonymity, the wide variety of erotic services remains the same,
- Bay Monk to Help Romanian Babies Sonoma Man to Build Group Homes for Infants with AIDS
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - WEDNESDAY December 19, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A18 Word Count: 449
- Ron Sonenshine, Chronicle Correspondent
- A lay Catholic monk from Sonoma County who operates foster care homes for babies with AIDS, has received permission to build Romania s first group care homes for infants with the disease. With help from volunteers, Brother Toby McCarroll plans to build group homes in the seaport city of Constanta that would eventually
- S.F. Homeless Deaths Top 100 Again, Study Finds
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - MONDAY December 17, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A5 Word Count: 629
- David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
- At least 113 homeless people have died on the streets of San Francisco in the past year, and more of them than in previous years were women and people with AIDS, according to an annual study scheduled for release today by the Tenderloin Times. This is the sixth year that the Tenderloin newspaper has conducted the study
- UCSF to Test Experimental AIDS Vaccine
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - THURSDAY December 13, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A8 Word Count: 241
- A new experimental AIDS vaccine, approved for human trials in California earlier this year, will undergo safety testing in the first group of American volunteers by scientists at the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Southern California, officials announced yesterday. Dr. James Kahn, a UCS
- New Immigration Law Hailed Bay Area Organizations' Years of Lobbying Finally Pay Off It Is Praised By Many Diverse Groups Around The Bay Area
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - SATURDAY December 1, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A2 Word Count: 595
- Dawn Garcia, David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writers
- MEMO: Chronicle staff writer Steve Kettmann contributed to this report TEXT: Bay Area groups representing diverse constituencies such as AIDS and gay rights advocates, Salvadoran refugees, Filipino veterans and Irish immigrants yesterday hailed a major overhaul of the immigration laws. The measure, signed by President
- 1 in 500 U.S. Collegians Has HIV, Study Says
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Thursday November 29, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A2 Word Count: 350
- David Perlman, Chronicle Staff Writer
- The AIDS virus has infected about 1 in 500 American college students across the country, and the disease will spread even more widely on campuses and beyond unless students change their sex habits, a federal study has concluded. A survey of 19 colleges and universities, including some in small towns and some in big cit
- AIDS Soars Among the Invisible Sufferes
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - THURSDAY November 29, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A1 Word Count: 1,645
- Elaine Herscher, Chronicle Staff Writer
- MEMO: SPECIAL REPORT: ENTERPRISE COLUMN, RELATED STORY ATTACHED TEXT: As Nancy lay in a hospital bed with her second bout of AIDS-related pneumonia, the main thing on her mind was getting groceries to her children. Financially ruined, with an infant grandson and two teenage daughters at home alone, she worried constant
- Human Trials of Possible AIDS Vaccine
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday November 28, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: B6 Word Count: 382
- David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
- Human trials of a vaccine designed to boost the immune system of people infected with the AIDS virus have begun at the Army s major research center in Washington, the vaccine s developer announced yesterday. The genetically engineered material mimics one of the important proteins on the outer coat of the virus and was
- First Human Tests of a New AIDS Vaccine: 60 Volunteers Will Be Injected With Agenetically Engineered Viral Protein
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday November 21, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A2 Word Count: 769
- David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
- Government researchers announced yesterday that they have received approval to begin human safety trials of the first genetically engineered AIDS vaccine, which has already shown promise in limited animal tests. Sixty men and women, all of them uninfected by the AIDS virus, will soon begin receiving shots at five unive
- AIDS Crisis Linked to Confusion, Societal Pressure New Government Data Has Spurred Action, Education
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Tuesday November 20, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: BRIEFING Page: 2/Z1 Word Count: 1,566
- Ed hooper
- MEMO: RELATED STORY Ed Hooper is a British journalist and author specializing in AIDS coverage. His book, Slim: A Reporter s Own Story of AIDS in Africa, was recently published in Great Britain by Bodley Head TEXT: In 1988, Zimbabwe became the first country in the world actually to downgrade from 380 to 119 its total o
- New State Standard for Labs Doing AIDS Tests
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119; - WEDNESDAY January 18, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A20 Word Count: 342
- David Perlman, Chronicle Science Writer
- California laboratories that test for the AIDS virus will be forbidden to use any screening method but the one known as ELISA, according to emergency regulations announced yesterday by state Health Director Kenneth W. Kizer. The new rule also requires laboratories to confirm every preliminary positive result by using e
- Safety Panel Hearing Nurse Tells How She Got the AIDS Virus
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119; - WEDNESDAY January 17, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A17 Word Count: 374
- David Tuller, Chronicle Science Writer
- In moving videotaped testimony yesterday, San Francisco General Hospital nurse Jane Doe described how she became infected with the AIDS virus while tending a patient. She urged a panel of federal job safety officials to approve stringent rules to protect workers from AIDS, hepatitis and other infectious diseases. T
- Agnos Task Force's Plan to Step Up AIDS Fight
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119; - THURSDAY January 11, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A1 Word Count: 1,038
- Elaine Herscher, Randy Shilts, Chronicle Science Writers
- A top-level San Francisco task force on the AIDS virus has called for up to $152 million in additional funds this year for prevention, early treatment and long-term care. The task force s detailed, 24-page report -- due to be released today -- advances the most comprehensive plan of any city to date in dealing with the
- Paul Wynne's Subject: His AIDS
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119; - THURSDAY January 11, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: DAILY DATEBOOK Page: E1 Word Count: 665
- John Carman, Chronicle Science Writer
- Paul Wynne returns to Bay Area television tonight after a five-year absence. Watch him and you can t help but notice something right away. His appearance has changed. At the start of his new Paul Wynne s Journal segment on the KGO (Channel 7) newscast at 6 tonight, Wynne turns in his swivel chair to examine an old vide
- Rare Virus' Alarming Rate in Prostitutes
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119; - FRIDAY January 5, 1990 Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A2 Word Count: 677
- Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
- Up to one-fourth of prostitutes in Newark, N.J., and more than 7 percent in San Francisco are infected by a rare virus that may cause cancer and other illnesses, a national study released yesterday found. The viruses are distantly related to HIV, the AIDS virus. So little is known about them that medical authorities ar
- Mixed Findings on S.F. Rate of AIDS Infection
- San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119; - Thursday January 4, 1990 By: Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: A5 Word Count: 790 P
- David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
- MEMO: CORRECTION PUBLISHED JANUARY 12, 1990 FOLLOWS: An article published in The Chronicle on January 4 stated that the number of new AIDS infections in San Francisco declined last year. The 1989 figures, however, included only the reports through November. Since reports of all new infection cases for the entire year a
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