San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, December 20, 2000
San Francisco -- Two members of the AIDS dissident group ACT UP/San Francisco have been sentenced to community service for staging a noisy protest in October inside a nonprofit organization, authorities said this week. Ronnie Burk, 45, and Betty Best, 40, must complete 25 hours of community service at nonprofit arts an
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, December 15, 2000
Dave Ford, Chronicle Staff Writer
Beginning in the early 1980s, the AIDS epidemic swept through San Francisco, the Bay Area and the nation like a wall of fire. Where there had been many, suddenly there were few: Friends lost friends, lovers lost lovers, families lost sons and fathers, and religious communities lost congregation members and leaders.
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, December 12, 2000
Beginning next month, Concord s Rainbow Community Center and Familias Unidas will offer free HIV testing in conjunction with starting an HIV+ Gay Men and Their Families Support Group. Meeting every Monday, the group will explore issues facing gay men who are living with HIV, as well as issues faced by the families cari
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, December 7, 2000
Contra Costa Health Services announced it will offer grants to community members who want to be hosts at small AIDS education events. The county is soliciting grant applications this month for AIDS Awareness events next year. The county has found that smaller events promote more meaningful discussions than big events,
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, December 4, 2000
Tom Abate
Some 15,000 researchers were out for blood this weekend, as the annual conference of the American Society of Hematology brought the latest findings on circulatory diseases to San Francisco s Moscone Center. The conference, which ends tomorrow, gives biotech firms a chance to tout scientific studies designed to persuade
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, December 4, 2000
Tom Abate
Some 15,000 researchers were out for blood this weekend, as the annual conference of the American Society of Hematology brought the latest findings on circulatory diseases to San Francisco s Moscone Center. The conference, which ends tomorrow, gives biotech firms a chance to tout scientific studies designed to persuade
San Francisco Chronicle - Sunday, December 3, 2000
Dan Wohlfeiler
Only 363 days until the next World AIDS Day. It s a good time to challenge three myths that threaten our efforts to fight the epidemic. First, let s stop saying AIDS is not a gay disease. That may have made it easier to get funding from a government which dared not speak its name. But gay men -- including those of us w
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, December 2, 2000
Alan Gathright, Chronicle Staff Writer
A judge ruled yesterday that former Palo Alto medical technician Elaine M. Giorgi should stand trial on six felony counts for endangering patients by allegedly reusing syringes while drawing blood. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Charles Hayden said there is sufficient evidence that Giorgi should be tried for t
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, November 30, 2000
Pia Sarkar, Chronicle Staff Writer
Oakland -- Joeanna King and Michael Benjamin roam Oakland s International Boulevard as crusaders against the AIDS epidemic. As African Americans, they have seen how hard the disease has hit their community, with AIDS being the No. 1 killer among black men and women between the ages of 25 and 44. Yesterday, King and Ben
San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, November 29, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Medical Writer
Impatient with a lack of progress in bringing low-cost AIDS drugs to Africa, activists including Nobel Peace Prize-winner Doctors Without Borders demanded a 95 percent price cut yesterday for poor countries by the start of the new year. Six months after five major international pharmaceutical companies unveiled a plan
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, November 28, 2000
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
In agreeing to review a medical-marijuana case from Oakland, the U.S. Supreme Court has put itself in a position to decide how far states can go in making otherwise illegal drugs available to their residents for health reasons. The court granted a hearing yesterday to the Clinton administration, which argued that feder
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, November 24, 2000
Dave Ford, Chronicle Staff Writer
When the Rev. William Swing, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, dedicates the newly completed AIDS Interfaith Chapel at Grace Cathedral on Thursday, it will signal the official opening of a place created to offer solace to people affected by the epidemic. As part of the ceremony, which is being held the day
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, November 23, 2000
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writers
San Francisco -- A jury convicted two members of dissident AIDS group ACT UP/San Francisco of disturbing the peace for an incident in which they sprayed Silly String on the city s public health director, but deadlocked or exonerated them on more serious charges, authorities said yesterday. The mixed verdict came late T
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, November 23, 2000
Mark Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Mateo County will distribute free marijuana to selected AIDS patients early next year as part of a first-of-its-kind study to determine the drug s potential benefits, county officials said yesterday. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has agreed to provide government-grown marijuana to 60 patients for a 12
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, November 13, 2000
David Gough
Nairobi -- Suveni Mabunde rolled back his head and blinked back tears. The dark patches under his eyes made him seem much older than his 47 years. Mabunde is dying of AIDS, the same disease that killed his wife in 1995 and will soon orphan his five children, who range in age from 10 to 18. He is one of 2 million Kenyan
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, November 13, 2000
David Gough
Nairobi -- Suveni Mabunde rolled back his head and blinked back tears. The dark patches under his eyes made him seem much older than his 47 years. Mabunde is dying of AIDS, the same disease that killed his wife in 1995 and will soon orphan his five children, who range in age from 10 to 18. He is one of 2 million Kenyan
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, November 11, 2000
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco -- Five members of the AIDS dissident group ACT UP/San Francisco will be prohibited from coming within 100 yards of offices or employees of an AIDS service organization under a preliminary injunction granted this week by a San Francisco judge. Superior Court Judge Ina Levin Gyemant s ruling stems from an
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, November 7, 2000
Reynolds Holding, William Carlsen, Chronicle Staff Writers
The decades-long battle for federal protections against deadly needle sticks culminated in victory yesterday when President Clinton signed legislation requiring medical facilities across the nation to use safer syringes and blood-drawing devices. The Needle Stick Safety and Prevention Act is expected to help save the l
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, November 4, 2000
Dan Levy, Chronicle Staff Writer
STATE -- Millions of poor and uninsured AIDS patients eligible for federal drug programs are failing to receive life-prolonging treatments, according to initial findings of a pivotal government survey. The study was done by the University of California at San Francisco s AIDS Policy Research Center and scheduled to be
San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
A Southern California drugmaker is seeking millions in damages from the University of California at San Francisco after university researchers insisted on publishing a report showing that the company s experimental AIDS drug did not work as planned. The dispute has spilled over into a national debate about the inherent
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, October 27, 2000
William Carlsen and Reynolds Holding, Chronicle Staff Writers
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved new workplace regulations yesterday that will dramatically lower the number of potentially lethal needle sticks that injure hundreds of thousands of health care workers each year. The bill, called the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act, was approved by the House of Representative
San Francsico Chronicle - Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Police arrested two members of ACT-UP/San Francisco this week after they allegedly shoved their way into the offices of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. ACT-UP/San Francisco members, who maintain that HIV does not cause AIDS, allegedly threw flyers and shouted through a bullhorn Monday, protesting a recent advertisem
San Francisco Chronicle - Sunday, October 22, 2000
Tim Vollmer
What causes AIDS? Far from being resolved 20 years after the syndrome became a household word, the question has flared in recent months, escalating what appears to be a war between official public-health groups and self-proclaimed dissident groups. The public-health and science establishments contend that, by claiming
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, October 16, 2000
Phil Ittner
Kaliningrad, Russia -- Vladimir Glazkov, inmate No. 140, had no idea that his heroin habit could lead to a death sentence -- not one ordered by a judicial system, but a lingering one imposed by the AIDS virus. Recalling when he first contracted HIV four years ago, the 23-year- old remarked: We didn t think about the v
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, October 16, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Cody is a living, breathing medical mystery. The 37-year-old San Francisco artist has known he is infected with the AIDS virus since 1984. His T-cell count -- the measure of infection-fighting white blood cells that hovers around 1,000 per cubic millimeter in healthy people -- is currently 21. He has watched his friend
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, October 13, 2000
Jose Antonio Vargas
In The Other Side of the Closet, a young man discovers his true sexuality and struggles with homophobia and intolerance -- issues all high school students, gay or straight, come in contact with in hallways and classrooms every day. Written by Canadian playwright Ed Roy, Closet is a 50-minute theater-in- education produ
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, September 25, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
The man who ran a Southern California clinical laboratory that was closed down for faking results on blood tests for prison inmates is back in business -- but perhaps not for long. Ayazur Rahman, 49, obtained a state license in July 1999 granting his small Whittier (Los Angeles County) business, American Diagnostic Lab
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, September 25, 2000
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
A 20-year friendship came full circle yesterday when U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher paid a visit to the heart of Oakland s African American community to see a housing complex being built for AIDS patients. Satcher, 59, toured the four-story building near 76th Avenue and International Boulevard at the invitation of
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, September 22, 2000
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco -- A fledgling AIDS organization is urging people with HIV and AIDS to boycott a San Francisco medical marijuana dispensary as part of a broader attempt to isolate ACT-UP/San Francisco, which claims the epidemic is over. Standing on the steps of San Francisco City Hall yesterday, members of the new group
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, September 21, 2000
Dan Wohlfeiler, Steve Lew, Hank Wilson
HIV IS A FORMIDABLE ENEMY. So are apathy and battle fatigue. As if they weren t enough, we now face an enemy within. A tiny group of activists, calling themselves ACT UP San Francisco, is threatening our efforts to fight HIV. This renegade group has nothing to do with the original ACT UP, a group founded in the 1980s t
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, September 19, 2000
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer
Regional -- A Bay Area television station has refused to broadcast an ad during the daytime that depicts bare- chested men and a male-to-female transgender delivering an HIV prevention message. Instead of running the 30-second spot during the afternoon Rosie O Donnell and Oprah shows, KGO Channel 7 has offered to run t
San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, September 16, 2000
Greg Lucas, Lynda Gledhill, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Sacramento -- Health insurers would have to ensure that policyholders with HIV or AIDS are referred to doctors who specialize in treating the two conditions under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. Gray Davis. Davis also vetoed 42 bills, announcing them, as he usually does, late in the afternoon to minimize the possible b
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, September 15, 2000
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Washington -- San Francisco will suffer a smaller cut in the money it receives from a major AIDS program than was approved by the House in July, after a compromise yesterday in a House-Senate conference committee. A formula change in the original bill would have cut San Francisco s share of special grant money under th
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, September 15, 2000
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer
Federal health experts upheld a policy yesterday that prevents most gay and bisexual men from donating blood, saying that easing the restriction could increase the risk of contracting AIDS from the nation s blood supply. The 7-to-6 vote by the Food and Drug Administration s blood products advisory committee was a disap
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, September 14, 2000
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco -- San Francisco health officials hope a new ad campaign directed at HIV-positive gay, bisexual and transgender men and women will drive home the message HIV stops with me. The 30-second paid TV spots, accompanied by a Web site, newspaper ads and handbills, feature a diverse range of HIV-positive men and
San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday, September 12, 2000
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer
Federal health officials this week will consider easing a regulation that bars most gay and bisexual men from donating blood, a 1985 rule that critics say is badly outdated. A proposal backed by the American Association of Blood Banks, an industry advocacy group, would permit donations by men who have not had sex with
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, September 12, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
STATE -- California state prisons have identified at least 650 inmates who have no records of retesting for AIDS, hepatitis or other serious diseases four years after a private lab was shut down for faking results on prisoner medical tests. A Chronicle investigation disclosed the phony lab test scandal in July. Since t
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, August 17, 2000
Chronicle Staff Report
San Francisco -- A powerful Republican congressman has crossed swords with San Francisco Board of Supervisors candidate Eileen Hansen over how the AIDS legal assistance organization for which she works spends its federal dollars. Hansen is expected to resign at the end of this week after six years as public policy dire
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, August 10, 2000
Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer
A Bay Area biotechnology firm is trying to line up international funding to deploy an easy-to-use HIV test in Africa, where the AIDS epidemic is out of control. Calypte Biomedical Corp. of Alameda sells a U.S. government-approved test that uses urine samples to detect AIDS, a practice that health experts say is easier
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, August 10, 2000
SANTA CLARA -- Santa Clara County s Public Health Department has relocated its HIV testing and counseling facilities, with a grand opening celebration scheduled for tomorrow. At the new Crane Center, Suite 101, 105 N. Bascom Ave., San Jose, anonymous testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases is available
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, August 10, 2000
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco -- Acknowledging that widely used AIDS prevention techniques established in the 1980s have failed to curtail the spread of HIV, San Francisco leaders yesterday called for a major shift in the program to fight AIDS. At a supervisors Finance Committee hearing, standing behind statistics that showed a rise i
Ho Chi Minh City -- This is the first of an occasional series on the global AIDS epidemic. Near a cafe called Hope along the bank of a murky, sludge-filled canal that reeks of raw sewage, a toddler playfully runs through a park in a diaper and dingy T-shirt. A plastic syringe swings from his tiny fingers. To him, it is
The fight in the Sunnydale housing projects against AIDS and diabetes is in the hands of children. Those hands belong to five young activists, ages 12 through 16, who call themselves the Nia Girls and who have organized Get Yo Health On health fair and block party that will be held Sunday. Nia Girls member Paulesha, 12
Washington -- The House voted unanimously yesterday to renew the Ryan White Care Act serving people with AIDS, including a funding formula change that promises to reduce San Francisco s share of the $1.6 billion now spent on the program. The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Rep. Henry Waxman, D- Los
CONCORD -- As AIDS health-care providers and other community members meet in Oakland in the coming weeks to discuss how to distribute federal money for people living with the disease, there is growing criticism that too much of the money is going to feed a bloated bureaucracy. The Ryan White Care Act, authorized by Con
Durban, South Africa -- In a rousing finale to the 13th International AIDS Conference, former South African President Nelson Mandela called on scientists yesterday to set aside their differences with his successor, Thabo Mbeki, and concentrate on fighting the global AIDS scourge. Let us not equivocate: A tragedy of
Durban, South Africa -- Of all the atrocities the AIDS virus has inflicted on this continent, perhaps the cruelest is this: A mother infected with HIV may pass the virus on to her infant by giving the gift of breast milk. At the 13th International AIDS Conference, now winding down to its last of six days, no topic has
Washington -- With the world s attention focused on the incredible devastation AIDS is wreaking on sub-Saharan Africa, a bipartisan House majority yesterday approved a $42 million increase in funding to combat the disease s march across the continent. Lawmakers, many of them stunned by news of the epidemic s toll comin
The openly gay actor who played the gay character Ricky Vasquez on the short-lived cult favorite TV show My So-Called Life has a new role -- AIDS Walk spokesman. And, says Wilson Cruz, it s a vitally important role. Gay men have become far too complacent about an epidemic he says is far from over. Cruz, who will host t
Durban, South Africa -- In the first government-sanctioned test of the effects of marijuana on people infected with the AIDS virus, a San Francisco study has found that the patients on pot came out of a 21-day trial just as fit and quite a bit fatter than when they started. Dr. Donald Abrams, a researcher at the Univer
Durban, South Africa -- It was the worst of outcomes for a clinical trial. Instead of protecting women against the AIDS virus, a contraceptive gel being tested as a chemical shield against HIV caused a higher rate of infection in the women who used it. The disastrous results, released here yesterday at the 13th Interna
The San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, July 12, 2000
Sabin Russell
A private philanthropic effort to speed development of an AIDS vaccine for Africa disclosed that the British government has cleared the way for the first human trials of an experimental vaccine made up of snippets of genes from the core of the AIDS virus. The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, funded in part by Mic
The San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, July 12, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Durban, South Africa -- As protesters at the 13th International AIDS Conference clamor to gain access for impoverished Africans to expensive new anti-viral drugs, researchers here are studying a range of new strategies to let patients already on the medicine take less. Four years after American AIDS patients began taki
The San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, July 11, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Durban, South Africa -- At the International AIDS Conference in Geneva two years ago, they talked about The Gap between rich nations and poor, and the contrasting consequences it had on care and treatment of the sick. Here, at the first of the group s meetings to be held on the African continent, they are calling it T
The San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, July 10, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Durban, South Africa -- Widespread HIV testing and counseling could greatly reduce infection rates in the developing world at a reasonable cost, new research suggests. Voluntary testing and counseling are central to AIDS prevention efforts in the West, but are a luxury in Africa. Of the 24.5 million people in sub-Sahar
The San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, July 10, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Durban, South Africa -- South African President Thabo Mbeki, opening the first international AIDS conference in a developing country, insisted yesterday that poverty is a greater enemy than the virus that 10,000 delegates came here to battle. The successor to Nelson Mandela disappointed thousands of AIDS researchers an
The San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, July 8, 2000
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
An international pharmaceutical company that markets a powerful antiviral AIDS drug announced yesterday that for the next five years, it will donate free supplies of the drug to every nation in the developing world that asks for it. The drug, called nevirapine , has been shown to prevent transmission of the AI
The San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, July 8, 2000
THERE APPEARS little reason for optimism as the 13th International AIDS Conference convenes tomorrow in Durban, South Africa , except the world is finally aware of the terrible impact of the spreading disease, especially in Africa. It is sadly fitting that the conference is being held in a host country where -- accordi
The San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, July 7, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
The most important thing about the 13th International AIDS Conference convening Sunday is the simple fact that for the first time it is taking place in Africa. After all, more people are living with the AIDS virus today in South Africa , the conference s host country, than any nation on Earth. About half of the 15-year
The San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, July 8, 2000
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Adding a cancer-fighting protein to the cocktail of AIDS drugs that patients use appears to significantly increase the compound s effectiveness, researchers reported yesterday. Though the treatment is still experimental, researchers who conducted a study of patients at several medical centers believe a protein called i
The San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, June 30, 2000
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco -- San Francisco s long-feared and often predicted new wave of HIV infection is here. After years of stability -- wrought by strong prevention programs, a safer-sex ethic and powerful drugs -- city health experts now estimate that the number of new infections by the virus that causes AIDS nearly doubled,
The San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, June 28, 2000
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
The raging AIDS epidemic, which has killed 19 million people around the globe, is devastating entire nations in Africa and making human and economic chaos there inevitable, the United Nations reported yesterday. In some southern African nations, crops are going unharvested because the epidemic has afflicted large numbe
The San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, June 20, 2000
Harriet Chiang, Chronicle Legal Affairs Writer
STATE -- Giving protection to many people with chronic diseases, the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that an insurance company cannot deny disability benefits to a man with AIDS solely because he was already HIV positive when his policy was issued. In a unanimous vote, the high court held that state law bars i
South African President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday that the potent drugs used to fight AIDS in San Francisco are still unaffordable for his country, even at the steep discounts recently offered by manufacturers. During a daylong Bay Area visit, Mbeki did little to counter his image as a leading skeptic of the value of
The national organization of doctors who deliver most of America s babies urged routine AIDS testing yesterday for every pregnant woman -- regardless of her apparent risk. Because there are no symptoms of infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, no woman can be certain she is uninfected without testing, said the n
The San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, May 16, 2000
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco -- Prosecutors filed misdemeanor charges yesterday against four members of the AIDS activist group ACT UP San Francisco for allegedly bursting into a public health forum last month and shoving a woman who helped plan the event. Members of the mainstream AIDS groups that sponsored the forum said the incide
The San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, April 3, 2000
Louis Freedberg, Chronicle Washington Bureau
It isn t every day that David Rasnick, a biochemist who lives in Saratoga, gets a call from a foreign president. Truth be told, it had never happened until South African President Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela s successor, called on his cell phone two months ago to discuss Rasnick s controversial stance that the human im
Washington -- It was yet another vintage Ron Dellums performance as the former East Bay congressman accepted his appointment to be chairman of President Clinton s Advisory Council on HIV/ AIDS last week. I m not an actor. I m not an expert on AIDS. I ve never run an agency on AIDS, the onetime Berkeley city councilman
The San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, March 16, 2000
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Warning that complacency over the AIDS epidemic is mounting in America, President Clinton s AIDS policy chief called yesterday for swift renewal of the law that provides millions of dollars to care for needy patients with the deadly infection. Far too many policymakers yearn to believe that the worst is behind us, sai
Every drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration comes with a label that says, Take only as directed. But doctors often ignore the rules and prescribe medicines for causes the FDA never approved. AIDS researchers, for instance, have used cancer remedies to fight HIV infections. These kind of off- label uses
San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, February 2, 2000
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
San Francisco -- A transplant surgery team at the University of California at San Francisco has received a million-dollar grant to conduct the first study of kidney and liver transplants in patients undergoing drug therapy for AIDS. The state Legislature and Gov. Gray Davis earmarked the money in the UC budget because
San Francisco Chronicle - Tuesday, February 1, 2000
Edward Epstein, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sen. Barbara Boxer proposed yesterday that the federal government commit itself to a five-year, $2 billion effort to combat AIDS overseas, with half the money going to Africa. The dramatic spread of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa has finally gotten a lot of attention, with Vice President Al Gore recently addressing the U.N
San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, February 2, 2000
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
The mysterious origin of AIDS, the global epidemic that has killed 16 million people, has been traced to 1930. That, scientists said yesterday, is the most likely date when chimpanzees and monkeys in the wilds of west Africa first transmitted the virus to humans. Using the world s fastest supercomputer, the scientists
The San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, January 28, 2000
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Science Writer
San Francisco -- A substantial increase in high-risk sexual behavior in San Francisco s gay community could all but eliminate the potential benefits of new AIDS drugs, scientists are reporting today. Even assuming the worst, however, 10 years of expanded use of the life-saving protease inhibitors and oth
San Francisco Chronicle - Wednesday, January 5, 2000
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Science Writer
Powerful anti-HIV drugs may attack not only the AIDS virus but also the liver, causing such severe side effects that 10 percent of all patients must stop therapy, a new study has found. Doctors said the findings, reported today in the Journal of the American Medical Association , underscore the dangers of indiscrimina
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