San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY December 27, 1991
Krzysztof Debnicki, Chronicle Foreign Service
Warsaw - Pawel Sliwa, a thin, dark- haired 22-year-old, can be found every day on the pavement of Marszalkowska Street in front of Centrum, Poland s largest department store. A piece of cardboard sits in front of him bearing this message: I am an HIV carrier. I have nowhere to live and no work. Please help me. The youn
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - TUESDAY December 17, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco could set up an effective needle exchange program within months to prevent AIDS among drug addicts if state laws were changed to make such a program legal, a city health department study has concluded. A draft report of a city plan to prevent the spread of AIDS among drug users proposes a $500,000 program
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY December 11, 1991
PRESIDENT BUSH S pledge to become personally involved in the battle against the AIDS epidemic, after too many years of apathy and inaction from the White House, can provide the kind of strong leadership the campaign desperately needs. In a rare appearance before the National Commission on AIDS, Bush repeatedly asked ho
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Wednesday, November 27, 1991
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
A national survey released yesterday reported that half the nation s primary-care doctors would not treat patients infected with the AIDS virus if they had the choice, and one-third of all the physicians in the study said that caring for these people is not an ethical responsibility. The study s finding that so many ph
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Thursday, November 21, 1991
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
University of California at San Francisco officials fired a blood specialist after accusations that he covered up data in a 1985 paper on AIDS biology. The accused physician, Dr. Raphael B. Stricker, denied the charges that cost him his job in September 1990 as an assistant professor of laboratory medicine. His dismiss
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Tuesday, November 19, 1991
Elaine Herscher, Chronicle Staff Writer
MEMO: CORRECTION, PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 20, 1991, FOLLOWS: An article in yesterday s Chronicle on a campaign to educate young gay and bisexual men about the transmission of AIDS incorrectly reported the age of John Fleming, a member of the Mayor s Youth Forum. Fleming is 16 years old. TEXT: The San Francisco AIDS Foundati
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - MONDAY November 18, 1991
Elaine Herscher, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco s Glide Memorial Methodist Church apparently became the first house of worship in the nation yesterday to offer both prayer and AIDS testing with a regular weekly service. In the heart of the Tenderloin, the church serves an ethnically and racially diverse congregation, many of whose members are not expos
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Monday, November 18, 1991
Sylvia Rubin, Chronicle Staff Writer
MEMO: RELATED STORY TEXT: One million plus Americans have tested HIV-positive. But until Magic Johnson, a dazzling smile wasn t part of the picture. Johnson said he is going to beat this thing. He said life will go on, and like so many others with HIV, he said he feels great, really good, despite the flu-like symptoms
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Monday, November 18, 1991
Dan Levy, Chronicle Staff Writer
MEMO: RELATED STORY TEXT: After the most intense week of AIDS media coverage in history, many people are still uneasy over Magic Johnson s attempt to distance himself from gays and the media s tenacity in establishing that he was infected through heterosexual sex. AIDS workers say they are uncomfortable with these conf
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Friday, November 15, 1991
John Otis, Chronicle Foreign Service
Managua - Decked out in a black, sequined gown, powder-blue eye shadow and cherry lipstick, Danilo Areas did his best Evita Peron imitation as he lip-synched Don t Cry For Me, Argentina before 200 ecstatic gays and lesbians at the Ron Ron bar. Although the Sandinista revolution came to an end last year, the recent part
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Thursday, November 14, 1991
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
MEMO: SPECIAL REPORT, RELATED STORY, RELATED STORY ATTACHED TEXT: Washington - In less than three months, American business and government will come face to face with a sweeping new law that grants millions of disabled citizens a new class of legal rights. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which begins to ta
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Thursday, November 14, 1991
Steven Winn, Chronicle Staff Critic
They re 1990s troubadours, a close- knit band of actor/director/managers who perform their needling material on the run. The kick of the Z Collective comes not only from what they have to say and how they say it, but where they do it, surprising us with some new context for their productions each time. After turning up
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Saturday, November 9, 1991
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Magic Johnson, the basketball star infected with the AIDS virus, acquired his infection through heterosexual transmission, his physician said yesterday, and that fact raised anew the lesson that the deadly virus can strike anyone. Dr. Michael Mellman, team physician for the Los Angeles Lakers, would not offer any detai
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Friday, November 8, 1991
Sabin Russell
-- What is AIDS? AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is the final stage of a viral disease that breaks down the immune system, the body s natural defense against germs. When a person has AIDS, he or she becomes vulnerable to a variety of infections and cancers, which eventually kill the patient. -- What is HI
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY November 8, 1991
Randy Shilts, National Correspondent
With the national spotlight abruptly cast on AIDS again by Magic Johnson s disclosure that he is infected with the virus, advocates for AIDS causes expressed hopes yesterday that renewed attention will mobilize badly needed action against the epidemic. The announcement by the basketball superstar could not have come at
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Friday, November 8, 1991
Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer
In answer to a request by Archbishop John Quinn that San Francisco high schools drop a new condom availability program, Superintendent Ramon Cortines yesterday just said no. Quinn had asked Cortines to reconsider the plan, which came about on October 7, when San Francisco became the first Bay Area school district to ag
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Friday, November 8, 1991
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Magic Johnson s own gutsy disclosure yesterday that he is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, does not mean he faces the threat of imminent disease nor that early death from it is inevitable, experts say. I do not have the AIDS disease, Johnson declared flatly and with a warm smile as he announced his immedi
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY November 6, 1991
Lloyd Watson
In recognition of his pioneering work in shaping the business sector s response to AIDS, Levi Strauss Chairman/CEO Robert Haas will be the first recipient of the National Leadership Coalition on AIDS Edward N. Brandt Jr. Award. The coalition, which represents business, labor and the volunteer sector, is honoring Haas f
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Wednesday, October 30, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
In a setback for state medical policymakers, a national organization of boards that license physicians has called for AIDS testing of some doctors and for new rules to keep those infected out of the surgical suite. The prestigious Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States , a group of 66 medical boards
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Wednesday, October 23, 1991
Ron Sonenshine, Chronicle Correspondent
Sonoma County supervisors have laid off their only AIDS education coordinator for schools, despite the county s high incidence of the disease. Marian Heath-Benner presented her final report yesterday to supervisors on AIDS education policies for the 41 school districts in Sonoma County, which has one of the highest per
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Wednesday, October 23, 1991
A Texas maker of a bogus AIDS treatment known as Immune Plus has agreed to halt all promotion of the vitamin supplement and refund monies to customers who purchased it. The Federal Trade Commission s San Francisco office filed suit last February in the U.S. District Court for Northern California, charging that distribu
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Tuesday, October 22, 1991
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
The drug foscarnet, approved less than a month ago to treat eye infections that can blind people with AIDS, surprisingly also seems to add to survival time, government medical scientists announced yesterday. In nationwide tests, ganciclovir, the only other drug that has been effective against the infection, worked equa
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Friday, October 18, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
One month before a federal deadline, the state s largest doctors organization yesterday rejected a call to develop a list of procedures deemed too risky for AIDS-infected doctors to perform. California Medical Association president Dr. Howard Lang yesterday warned that to develop such a list would send society on a sl
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - THURSDAY October 17, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Three unions at San Francisco General Hospital are asking that the facility switch to a safer catheter needle that could reduce the risk of accidental AIDS infection. Unions representing doctors, nurses and orderlies at the city-run hospital are upset that the hospital is providing the safer but more costly needle to s
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - SUNDAY October 13, 1991
David J. Fox
WE DO give money to AIDS and the homeless and the blind. But we re not obligated to hire the victims of the various diseases or causes we support. It all boils down to dollars and cents, and those with an illness or the potential for becoming ill are an economic risk. These words come from a well-known Hollywood produ
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Saturday, October 12, 1991
Black women of childbearing age in California are 14 times as likely as whites to carry the AIDS virus, according to a survey by the state Department of Health Services. The annual study, based on anonymous testing of infants born to California women, found that one in every 1,420 mothers from all ethnic backgrounds we
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Friday, October 11, 1991
L.A. Chung, Chronicle Staff Writer
The first gay and lesbian historical archive in the country will be housed in the new San Francisco Public Library, city officials announced yesterday. The Gay and Lesbian Center will be a comprehensive research, literary, historical and archival collection, placed in a prominent location of the library, which will be
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Thursday, October 10, 1991
Michael McCabe, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco high school students yesterday expressed widespread support for the school board s decision to make free condoms available on city campuses. Once you got them, then you can go do what you have to do, said one 15-year-old junior, surrounded by three of his buddies in front of Balboa High School. But they b
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Wednesday, October 9, 1991
Ron Sonenshine, Chronicle Correspondent
In what is believed to be the first case involving a violation of the state s AIDS notification laws, a Petaluma nurse who is infected with the AIDS virus has sued her insurance company. The woman and her husband were required to take blood tests last year when they applied for individual life insurance policies with t
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Monday, October 7, 1991
Catherine Bowman, Chronicle Correspondent
Faced with the need for more housing for inmates infected with the AIDS virus, San Quentin prison is converting an old gymnasium into a 150-bed dormitory. The unit, which is scheduled to open by December, reflects a revised housing policy adopted by the state Department of Corrections in April to end automatic segregat
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY October 2, 1991
Battle lines are being drawn in Alameda County over a proposed study on the effectiveness of a needle-exchange program in curbing the spread of HIV, the AIDS virus, among drug addicts. The county s AIDS Advisory Board asked the Board of Supervisors yesterday to endorse a resolution to the Legislature calling for a cont
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Wednesday, October 2, 1991
Clarence Johnson, Chronicle East Bay Bureau
The California Nurses Association took a stand yesterday against mandatory testing of health workers for the AIDS virus, declaring the tests too expensive, too time-consuming and clinically ineffective. The 26,000-member organization, meeting at the Oakland Convention Center, also launched a campaign to promote infecti
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Tuesday, October 1, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
A unique clearinghouse providing social services for San Francisco patients infected with the AIDS virus will open its doors at noon today at renovated offices in the Mission District. The Center for Positive Care, formed by a coalition of San Francisco AIDS service groups, is billed as one-stop shopping for AIDS servi
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Wednesday, September 25, 1991
Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
A study of 379 heterosexual couples in San Francisco, in which one partner carried the virus that causes AIDS and the other did not, concludes that the virus moves from a man to a women during sex far more easily than the other way around. While many studies in recent years have suggested that the danger of contracting
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Monday, September 23, 1991
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
The fiercely independent Linus Pauling Research Institute, founded in Palo Alto 18 years ago by Pauling himself, faces a money crisis so serious that it could be forced to close, officials at the Palo Alto institute claim. Federal grants have dried up, foundation funds have been cut in half, major support from a Japane
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Saturday, September 14, 1991
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
Gennady Roshupkin is an AIDS activist. That might not seem so unusual in San Francisco or New York. But Roshupkin, a slender 22-year- old with a gentle smile, lives in Moscow. And, he says, he is committed to doing whatever is necessary to improve the Soviet Union s dismal record of caring for the growing number of peo
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - THURSDAY September 12, 1991
Teresa Moore, Chronicle East Bay Bureau
The city of Berkeley wants tougher scrutiny of its popular tattoo parlors because two 14-year-old girls lied about their age and had the words Evil Child emblazoned on their backs. The irate father of one of the girls called City Councilman Alan Goldfarb, who is leading the campaign for stringent regulation including r
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Friday, August 30, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
In its largest commitment yet to fight AIDS in developing countries, the U.S. Agency for International Development awarded a North Carolina foundation $168 million yesterday to finance disease prevention efforts during the next five years. Researchers at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of Calif
San Francisco Chronicle; Thursday, August 29, 1991
Boston - In a finding that draws new attention to a means of transmitting the deadly AIDS virus, doctors working in Africa have confirmed that infected women can spread the disease to their babies through breast milk. Although unable to quantify the risk of spreading the AIDS virus through mother s milk, AIDS experts f
San Francisco Chronicle; Wednesday, August 28, 1991
Lloyd Watson
Calypte Biomedical, the 3-year- old Berkeley firm that will file next month for FDA approval of its urine test for HIV antibodies, has a new chief operating officer: David Robison, the 41-year-old ex- Bristol-Myers exec who led that company s successful development of an FDA-approved HIV blood test. Calypte founder
San Francisco Chronicle; Saturday, August 24, 1991
Oakland -- The attorney for a man accused of assault with a deadly weapon by allegedly exposing two women to the AIDS virus is arguing that HIV is not infectious and cannot be spread through sex. The defendant, William Lucas Barker, is charged with two counts stemming from an alleged sexual assault on an ex-prostitute
Cases of syphilis among San Francisco teenagers have more than tripled in the past five years, bringing the infection rate to 500 percent above the national average. The infection rate was 160 cases per 100,000 San Francisco teenagers ages 15 to 19 last year, compared with a national average of 27 cases per 100,000 tee
San Francisco Chronicle; Thursday, August 22, 1991
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
A major national AIDS study shows that nearly 40 percent of Americans whose sexual behavior puts them at high risk for the disease have never been tested for infection by the AIDS virus, the director of a University of California research team said yesterday. In a survey that obtained detailed and confidential answers
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - SATURDAY August 17, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Unable to budge White House opposition to lifting AIDS travel and immigration bans, Harvard University announced yesterday that it will move the 1992 International Conference on AIDS from Boston to a yet-to-be-named site outside the United States . The decision, generally hailed by advocates for AIDS patients as a cour
San Francisco Chronicle; Wednesday, August 14, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco public health officials yesterday warned that the city could lose as much as $3 million in federal AIDS relief as a result of a Centers for Disease Control plan to expand the definition of the disease. While Department of Public Health Director Raymond Baxter and other city AIDS experts welcome the broade
San Francisco Chronicle; Wednesday, August 14, 1991
Chanting slogans in Hindi, about three dozen people demonstrated outside the Indian Consulate yesterday to protest what they said was widespread discrimination against HIV-infected individuals in India. The protesters, many of them dressed in traditional Indian clothing, cited instances of HIV-positive people being hel
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY August 9, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
A change in the federal government s official definition of AIDS could nearly triple the number of cases in San Francisco, further straining a network of social services already close to the breaking point. The national Centers for Disease Control has informed health departments throughout the nation that it plans to a
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - TUESDAY August 6, 1991
Ron Sonenshine, Chronicle Correspondent
Sonoma County does not provide enough bed space or shelter for indigent people with AIDS, according to a county report to be sent today to the Board of Supervisors. The 15-page report drafted by the county s Commission on AIDS says the North Bay county needs a nursing facility and emergency housing to help take care of
With incense, singing and prayers for the sick and dying, more than 600 people celebrated Mass at Most Holy Redeemer Church in the heart of the Castro neighborhood yesterday after a weekend of continuous prayer for relief from the AIDS epidemic. The Mass ended the church s Seventh Annual Forty Hours Devotion, a medieva
Around the country, new theories for holding blood banks, hospitals and doctors liable to patients given HIV-tainted blood have spurred a trend toward plaintiff victories and large jury awards, legal experts say. But the trend has yet to hit California, where court rulings limiting pain-and-suffering awards and the que
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Thursday, July 18, 1991
Jerry Carroll, Chronicle Staff Writer
Any day now, the long agony of Kimberly Bergalis will end with the death she aches for, and she ll be laid in the grave, another victim of AIDS. Look for another spell of hand-wringing over how safe it is to see your doctor or dentist. More than 113,000 Americans have died from AIDS, but it seems Bergalis will be the f
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - TUESDAY July 16, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Most surgeons, gynecologists and dentists should test themselves for the AIDS virus and stop performing major surgeries if they are infected, the national Centers for Disease Control recommended yesterday. The long-awaited guidelines, announced by Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan in Washington, D.C.,
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Saturday, July 13, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Alarmed by a disturbing increase in the number of tuberculosis cases, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital are taking special precautions to avert an outbreak of the disease once thought to be on the wane. The hospital is tightening infection-control procedures and plans to install special ventilators in eight roo
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Thursday, July 11, 1991
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
AIDS patients and their doctors are mounting a new campaign for a dramatic shift in U.S. Food and Drug Administration policy that would allow drug companies to market incompletely tested drugs for life- threatening diseases. The drive for so-called conditional approval of AIDS drugs has caused a fierce policy debate wi
San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY July 5, 1991
Dan Levy, Chronicle Staff Writer
Nick remembers stabbing a man who tried to rape him at gunpoint. Matt cruises the bars at closing time looking for clients who will help finance his drug habit. Dagger says he chooses among a dozen abandoned buildings around the city when he wants to sleep. They are all prostitutes in their teens and early 20s and hus
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Thursday, July 4, 1991
Kenneth Chang, Chronicle Staff Writer
The risk of an AIDS-contaminated blood donation eluding current blood bank screening tests is less than 1 in 82,000, according to researchers at the University of California at San Francisco and the Irwin Memorial Blood Bank. The figure is based on a three- year study of more than 100,000 donations from Northern Califo
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Wednesday, July 3, 1991
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Researchers exploiting a discovery that Egyptian physicians first made nearly 5,000 years ago have developed a new way to kill viruses and bacteria that can infect human blood collected for transfusions. Ultimately, they say, the nation s blood supply could be made even safer than it is now -- and thoroughly protected
San Francisco Chronicle (SF); Wednesday, July 3, 1991
David Tuller, Chronicle Staff Writer
The San Francisco district attorney s office, charging that two Oakland dentists are giving patients a false sense of security, has demanded them to cease and desist running a San Francisco newspaper ad in which they claim to have tested negative for the AIDS virus. The ad, which ran in the San Francisco Chronicle and
A 45-year-old gay man won $228,000 yesterday from a hospital, a medical lab and a doctor he sued for mistakenly telling him he had AIDS. A San Francisco Superior Court jury awarded the money to Mitchell Welenken for the emotional distress he suffered after a mix-up in blood samples caused Dr. Richard Cazen to diagnose
San Francisco Chronicle - The Voice of the West, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94119 - Wednesday, February 27, 1991; Edition: FINAL Section: PEOPLE Page: B3 Word Count: 1,990
Torri Minton, Chronicle Staff Writer
Dana Rica spent the first two years of her life lying in a metal crib in a packed convalescent ward, too frail to sit up. She was touched only during twice-a-day feedings and diaper changes. Her food was mush from a bottle. A few weeks ago, at 2 years, 4 months old, she weighed just eight pounds. Dana Rica has the AIDS
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