A company whose experimental AIDS drug didn t pan out well in a majo r nationwide test has brought legal action against a prominent UC-San Francisco AIDS researcher for publishing a paper on the results. It s the second time in recent years that a company that paid for research conducted at UCSF has sought to keep cont
The federal government is spending $3 million in San Francisco to see if putting homeless people with HIV/AIDS in residential hotels and offering them access to medical, mental health and social services will prolong their lives. But the San Francisco nonprofit group running the program has placed its sick and disabled
It s a little like winning the lottery, except the prize is a one-bedroom apartment in a complex with new appliances, a view, on-site child care and a computer learning center. And nearby is a school and park, as well as grocery shopping. The cost: $300 a month. That s what some lucky person, along with dozens of other
A promising new avenue of HIV research - priming the body s immune system to keep the virus in check - is getting a boost from a study of newly infected patients, some of whom were able to fight off the infection much better after an initial course of standard drug treatment. The small study, published Thursday in the
A promising new avenue of HIV research - priming the body s immune s ystem to keep the virus in check - is getting a boost from a study of newly infected patients, some of whom were able to fight off the infection much better after an initial course of standard drug treatment. The small study, being published Thursday
Fed up with radical activists antics, they call for pot-club boycott It s a typical Monday night at ACT UP/San Francisco s headquarters on Market Street. A half-dozen men and women sit on ratty furniture and go over a meager agenda - a positive article in an African magazine, an upcoming community festival, and a recen
With a full-page ad running in the local gay press, AIDS activists f rom around the city are announcing an organized movement against ACT UP/San Francisco, a renegade chapter known for its disruptive tactics and message that HIV doesn t cause AIDS. The ad s 194 individual signers and five organizations are asking the g
WHEN CLEVE JONES, co-founder of the NAMES Project, came to San Francisco to join the gay rights movement in 1972, he had no idea he would help bring AIDS awareness to the forefront of people s consciousness. The NAMES Project came to light when Jones asked gay rights activists at Harvey Milk s candlelight memorial in 1
Amid raging debates over the potential therapeutic uses of marijuana, two University of California campuses are launching the first academic center to study whether the illegal drug does help some patients. UC-San Francisco and UC-San Diego will jointly run the newly formed Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, which
This night is different from most nights in the AIDS ward of Laguna Honda Hospital. Someone is sharing patient Billy Edwards pillow, snuggling up to the frail man as the lights go out and a ceiling fan gently blows the pastel curtain that separates Edwards from his roommates. Edwards partner, Rick Burd, is spending the
SAN FRANCISCO Health Director Mitch Katz uses unassailable logic to call for a sharp revision of AIDS prevention strategy. The educational emphasis of the last several years actually is sensible enough: It stresses the use of condoms by men having sex with other men, to avoid transmission of the HIV virus that causes A
For the first time, a city official is pressing battery charges against members of an AIDS dissident group that for years has screamed obscenities and disrupted public meetings. Health Director Mitchell H. Katz said the tactics of ACT UP/San Francisco were taking an emotional toll on his staff and hurting efforts to st
Faced with firm evidence that the rate of new HIV infections among g ay men is rising sharply, The City s health director wants to revamp prevention efforts, including a retreat from the use-a-condom-every-time mantra that has been the heart of most AIDS prevention campaigns. Political correctness and the fear of being
The immensity of the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa was imprinted in the consciousness of world leaders as news issued daily from the just-concluded international conference in Durban. Most of the contemplated solutions bore daunting price tags in a continent of poor nations with little money for expensive new medic
DURBAN, South Africa - The 13th International AIDS Conference has succeeded in focusing world attention on the devastation AIDS is visiting on Africa. It may have pushed the issue far enough that paralyzed countries in the developing world will gear up to face it - and Western nations will be forced to come up with the
DURBAN, South Africa - While most HIV-positive people in the United States are either remaining abstinent or telling their sex partners that they carry the virus, a significant minority continue to engage in unprotected sex with people who have no idea they could be contracting HIV. Gay men are the ones most likely
DURBAN, South Africa - Former South African President Nelson Mandela closed the 13th International AIDS Conference with the kind of rousing speech and call to action many had hoped to hear earlier from his successor. Let us not equivocate: a tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa, Mandela said Fri
DURBAN, South Africa - The first U.S. study using medical marijuana for people with HIV has found that smoking the plant does not disrupt the effect of anti-retroviral drugs that keep the virus in check. The results were announced Thursday at the 13th International AIDS Conference and are the first to be released from
DURBAN, South Africa - As scientists become increasingly pessimistic about finding a cure for AIDS, long-dormant efforts to come up with an effective vaccine against HIV are taking on greater urgency. Unfortunately, the wily virus that mutates rapidly is proving as difficult to defeat with a vaccine as it has been for
WASHINGTON - Government investigators told Congress that San Francisco gets nearly twice the federal AIDS funding per patient than other cities receive, a finding that a key Republican lawmaker said was indefensible. Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said Tuesday that research by the General Accounting Office showed San Franci
DURBAN, South Africa - A carefully planned off-and-on use of expensive anti-retroviral drugs is showing promise as a means of keeping HIV-infected people healthy longer while saving money at the same time, a top AIDS researcher said Tuesday. The idea is being touted as one way to make it easier for people in the develo
JOHANNESBURG - Two years ago the South African government honored Mpho Bab usi as an AIDS Educator of the Year for courageously going public about having HIV, and consenting to radio and newspaper interviews highlighting the AIDS epidemic. But her bravery proved costly. Her mother didn t approve, especially when Babusi
DURBAN, South Africa - As calls go out for greater access by poor countries to the West s life-sustaining cocktail of anti-AIDS drugs, there continue to be serious doubts about whether the treatments might do more harm than good. South African judge and AIDS activist Edwin Cameron drew a standing ovation Monday at the
DURBAN, South Africa - As calls mounted for getting AIDS medications to developing countries, South African President Thabo Mbeki disappointed delegates to the 13th International AIDS Conference here by using his opening speech to emphasize poverty and overall poor health in his nation, rather than the need for anti-re
DURBAN, South Africa - While the overall rate of new HIV infections in the United States remains stable, more than 7 percent of young gay men in U.S cities are turning up infected, another troubling sign that efforts to further halt the spread of the virus might be faltering, the CDC reports. On the eve of the open
A startling rise in new infections shows the AIDS epidemic in The City is not over - and it needs renewed attention. A BIG jump in the number of new HIV infections in San Francisco ought to serve as a double reminder. No one should be lulled into thinking that the AIDS epidemic is a thing of the past. And we should rev
After years of steadying HIV rates, the number of new cases is on the rise in San Francisco. The percentage of new HIV cases in The City has almost tripled from 1997 to 1999, according to studies by the San Francisco Public Health Department. There were about 900 new cases of the virus in 1999 compared to about 500 the
U.N. report says devastation will only grow if wealthynations don t step in to offer assistance Despite glimmers of hope in a few countries, a third or more of today s 15-year-olds in some African nations will die of AIDS, a generation of teachers is being wiped out, and wealthy industrial nations have largely failed t
A Ugandan minister says they brought him back from the brink of death. An HIV-positive woman in Nigeria and her infected child are living on them. So is a painter in Russia , a doctor in Cuba and dozens of poor people in Chile , Mexico a
WASHINGTON - Key House negotiators have cut San Francisco s share of federal AIDS funding by millions of dollars over five years while increasing money for 50 other cities hard hit by the epidemic. Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said Thursday that San Francisco s share of federal Ryan White program money would be slowly red
If premiums paid for 2 years, HIV patients keep benefits despitepreexisting condition AIDS patients scored a major legal victory over the insurance industry with the state Supreme Court barring insurers from cutting off benefits to people who knew they were HIV-positive when they applied for insurance and have paid pre
SEATTLE - The Rev. Jesse Jackson challenged the nation s mayors gathered here to publicly take HIV blood tests in a high-profile drive to encourage more Americans to test for the deadly virus that often leads to AIDS. It will attract media attention and public education, Jackson said Sunday at the U.S. Conference of Ma
In S.F. speech, Mbeki eschews mainstream conclusions on cause and treatment of disease South African President Thabo M. Mbeki strongly defended his country s controversial approach to handling its AIDS crisis in a San Francisco address Wednesday to the World Affairs Council and the Commonwealth Club. Mbeki said the rec
Holocaust denial - the claim by fringe groups that Nazis in World War II didn t really murder millions of Jews and others - has long been discredited. Now, however, South African President Thabo Mbeki appears to be actively flirting with a new form of holocaust denial, one that claims that HIV is harmless, AIDS is a ph
WASHINGTON - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, is vowing to preserve San Francisco s $35 million in annual Ryan White AIDS funds despite efforts in Congress to redistribute some of the federal money to other regions where the epidemic is growing. Pelosi said San Francisco stood to lose about $8 million from the Ryan
Panel focuses on public complacency about the disease A congressional hearing to explore why the American public is growing complacent about AIDS was interrupted by angry members of the militant gay group ACT UP, who demanded to know how federal funds were being spent on the disease. Why do you keep funding AIDS? abou
I have effectively been forced out of the system, says foundingphysician After failing to raise enough donations to keep going, the Jon Kaiser Wellness Center in San Francisco has shut its doors for the foreseeable future. The clinic, with a devoted following of 1,500 patients and based at the Davies medical campus, b
Alameda County health officials focus on gay teens, minority men and drug users No doubt, the image is explicit. Two African American men, both naked. One lying on top of the other. Two empty glasses stand next to a bottle of cognac. An unused condom lies inches from it. Been there. Done that. Get HIV tested. It could
Herbert Hoover was president. The stock market had crashed. And the Nazi Party was on the rise in Germany . Now historians may add another event to the world in 1930 - the emergence of HIV in humans. Using powerful supercomputers, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have concluded from molecular studies of the
Studies in AIDS-ravaged Africa have found that people with very low levels of HIV in their blood are unlikely to infect others - suggesting that drug therapies or vaccines that suppress the virus could significantly reduce its spread. The research also gives compelling evidence that circumcision may be protecting many
Wellness Center needs $127,000 to pay off audit that threatens Medicare funding Patients of a beloved but embattled clinic for people with HIV and o ther chronic illnesses are launching a last-minute fund-raising drive to keep the facility from folding. The task is formidable. They must raise at least $127,000 in the n
SWAZILAND is a small kingdom in Africa. Tucked between the Republic of South Africa and Mozambique , it has faced the oppression of apartheid on one border, stubborn colonialism on the other. Today, it faces a specter more imminent, more tragic, more deadly: AIDS. The numbers are staggering.
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