San Francisco Examiner - Wednesday, December 25, 1996
Lisa M. Krieger, Examiner Staff
THIS WEEK, the AIDS / HIV Nightline will be open all day and all night through Jan. 2 to assure that everyone has access to emotional support. Holidays can be stressful for people dealing with AIDS. Service agencies are often closed. Friends or caregivers may be out of town or unavailable. Call (415) 434-AIDS in San Fr
San Francisco Examiner - Monday, December 23, 1996
Gregory Lewis, Examiner Staff
Those struggling to combat HIV and AIDS in the Bay Area were pleasantly surprised that Time magazine has named AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho as its Man of the Year. I almost fell out of my chair when I heard the news, said Jeff Getty, an AIDS patient from Oakland who has seen clinical improvement following his radiation
THIS WEEK, Dr. John Mills of Abbott Labs came to San Francisco to discuss the implications of exciting new research showing undetectable levels of the human immunodeficiency virus in the lymph nodes of AIDS patients on triple-combination drug therapy. In all six patients tested, the virus reached levels that were below
Gerrie Kirby struggles to take AIDS medicines exactly as prescribed: three times a day, precisely on schedule, on a full stomach. But Kirby, a recovering heroin addict in San Francisco s Tenderloin District, has little money and no refrigerator, so meals are erratic. Once, she lost her medicine in her small, cluttered
San Francisco Examiner - Wednesday, December 11, 1996
Lisa M. Krieger, Examiner Staff
THIS WEEK, UC-San Francisco launched The Options Project, a first-of-its type program of testing and drug intervention for people who have been exposed to HIV and might be infected. The UC team offers: *Tests to find out if someone really has been infected. These are viral tests that detect HIV early, rather than the s
San Francisco Examiner - Tuesday, December 10, 1996
Jane Ganahl, Examiner StafF
George Wedemeyer has a lyrical, hearty laugh: the laugh of someone who s found a way to cheat death - or at least keep it at a distance. Diagnosed 13 years ago with AIDS, the 54-year-old Wedemeyer is one of those people worthy of study. How has he kept going? Managed to hold down a job? Kept working out at his gym? Don
The San Francisco Examiner; Friday, December 6, 1996
Kathleen Sullivan of the Examiner Staff
Neighbors who oppose construction of a 30-unit affordable housing complex in the Mission District vow to appeal a federal judge s dismissal of their lawsuit against the $6.8 million project. Laurel Stanley, the lawyer who represents foes of the complex, said Thursday she would file an appeal with the 9th U.S. Circuit C
The San Francisco Examiner; Wednesday, December 4, 1996
Lisa M. Krieger of the Examiner Staff
THIS WEEK, the scientists who developed the powerful new anti-viral drugs called protease inhibitors were celebrated at an awards ceremony by the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the nation s largest community-based HIV-AIDS medical provider. Honored were Dr. Andre G. Pernet and the
The San Francisco Examiner; Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1996
Stewart M. Powell, Examiner Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - The head of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation is one of two Californians on President Clinton s short list to replace departing AIDS czar Patricia Fleming. Pat Christen, executive director of the AIDS Foundation, and Phill Wilson, co-founder of Los Angeles National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum wh
Methamphetamine has become the third deadliest drug in California and is totally interlinked with the AIDS epidemic, according to the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Only crack cocaine and heroin have addicted and destroyed more Americans than methamphetamine - also known as crystal, crank, speed, ice
In Golden Gate Park, about 80 people helped to dedicate a 15-acre grove of redwoods, oaks and ferns as a national landmark: the National AIDS Memorial Grove. In Rome, taxi drivers distributed safe-sex leaflets. Across Thailand , gas stations offered free condoms. And in New York s Times Square, an electronic billboard
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