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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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