1994
- Experts Debate Expanded HIV Testing Voluntary Screening of All Hospital Patients Considered
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY, December 21, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A2 Word Count: 663
- David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
- Public health departments throughout the country have provided free and confidential HIV screening for years, but only a fraction of the people who risk infection from the AIDS virus ever seek the test. As a result, health officials are debating controversial proposals to offer the test routinely to all new hospital pa
- New Home Test For AIDS Stirs Old Controversies: Some Say The Kit Is An Unethical Way to Give AIDS Patients The News. Others Say More People Would Get Tested -- And The Spread of the Disease Will Be Stopped Sooner.
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - SUNDAY, December 18, 1994 Edition: SUNDAY Section: Sunday Chronicle Page: S1/Z1 Word Count: 1,561
- Elaine Herscher, Chronicle Staff Writer
- Within a year, it is likely that anyone concerned about having the AIDS virus will be able to buy a home test kit at the local drugstore, mail a blood sample to a lab and get a result by phone. The first over-the-counter HIV test kit is making its way through the federal Food and Drug Administration review process and
- Experts Say DNA Pieces Show A Virus Is Tied To AIDS Cancer
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY, December 16, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A1 Word Count: 727
- David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
- Scientists hunting for the cause of Kaposi s sarcoma, the cancerous lesions most common in AIDS patients, have detected the first strong evidence that an unknown herpes-like virus is linked to the deadly skin disease. In a cautious report being published today in the journal Science, researchers say they have isolated
- Mother Has AIDS, Toddler Is HIV-Positive
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY, December 14, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A18 Word Count: 432
- Tara Shioya, Chronicle Staff Writer
- MEMO: SERIES: THE CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING Some nights, Jasmine lifts her baby daughter out of her bed and hugs her close. And then she cries herself to sleep, because she cannot believe what is happening to them. Jasmine, not her real name, was told in 1991 that she has AIDS. She found out she was HIV-positive when
- Public Health Malpractice
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY, December 7, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: Editorial Page: A22 Word Count: 312
- EDITORIALS YET AGAIN WE HAVE to wonder what, if anything, the Clinton administration really stands for when it stubbornly refuses to release a year-old government report that concludes that needle exchange programs help to limit the spread of the AIDS virus. There are plenty of bootleg copies of the confidential report
- Needle-Swap Report Being Kept Secret: U.S. Findings on AIDS Prevention
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - TUESDAY, December 6, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A1 Word Count: 1,066
- Louis Freedberg, Chronicle Washington Bureau
- Washington - Brushing aside criticism from leading AIDS researchers and advocates, the Clinton administration has refused to publicly release a year-old government report concluding that needle exchange programs are an effective way to prevent the spread of the AIDS virus. The confidential internal review was completed
- AIDS Care System in Crisis, S.F. Panel Says
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY, December 2, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A22 Word Count: 489
- Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
- A San Francisco task force of AIDS experts and advocates called yesterday for an overhaul of the city s highly acclaimed system of patient care, warning that finances are thin and that the disease is spreading into new groups. Appointed by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Frank
- A Living AIDS Memorial: Grove Dedicated to Victims, Survivors
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - THURSDAY, December 1, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A17 Word Count: 866
- Catherine Bowman, Chronicle Staff Writer
- Throughout the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park, there are simple reminders of those who have died: a photograph tacked to a tree, a shrine of pinecones and a pair of cowboy boots filled with flowers. The mementos come and go. They are left by friends, parents, lovers and other visitors whose lives have been irr
- Baboons Provide Hope For AIDS Research: Approval Sought To Inject Cells From Bone Marrow
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - THURSDAY, December 1, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A2 Word Count: 836
- Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer
- In a medical gamble that could provide an end-run around AIDS, San Francisco and Pittsburgh doctors are planning to inject bone marrow cells from baboons into people with advanced cases of the disease. The AIDS virus directly attacks the human immune system. The scientists reason that if the immune system of a person w
- Elementary Education on AIDS: Pupils Start Learning Early
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - MONDAY, November 28, 1994; Edition: FINAL Section: News Page: A1 Word Count: 2,321
- Torri Minton, Chronicle Staff Writer
- MEMO: SPECIAL REPORT Chronicle correspondents Debra Levi Holtz and Lorna Fernandes contributed to this story. TEXT: One minute, the Sausalito pre-kindergartners are smashing their rice and vegetables, Cat-in-the-Hat grins on their faces. The next, they are discussing AIDS over the sticky lunch table. They are 5, and th
- New Congress, Old Morals: Gays And Lesbians Fear The New Conservative Congress Has Already Targetted Their Hard-Won Rights
- San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - SUNDAY, November 27, 1994 Edition: SUNDAY Section: News Page: S4 Word Count: 1,716
- Louis Freedberg, Chronicle Washington Bureau
- Washington - With fundamentalist Christians on the march toward Washington, the Republican takeover of Congress on November 8 is threatening a new war on gay and lesbian rights. The time has come to sound the trumpet of righteousness, said the Rev. Lou Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, a leading fu
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