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Tag Archives: AIDS
FDA Panel EndorsesTruvada to Prevent HIV Infection in Healthy People
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From AP: A panel of federal health advisers has endorsed the first drug shown to prevent HIV infection in healthy people, clearing the way for a potentially landmark approval in the 30-year-old effort against the virus that causes AIDS. In … Continue reading
AIDS Memorial Grove: SF's Best Kept Secret?
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is one of the city's top tourist attractions. And yet very few of the thousands who visit the park each year ever stop to see the National AIDS Memorial Grove, just a stone's throw from … Continue reading
World AIDS Day Commemorations Around the Bay - December 1
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A number of commemorations for World AIDS Day are planned tomorrow. At noon, people will gather at the National Aids Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park: And throughout the day there will be events in the Castro:
Obituary: Ruth Brinker, Founder of Project Open Hand
A memorial service is planned for September 16th to honor Ruth Brinker. She's the 89-year-old matriarch who founded Project Open Hand. The organization serves hot meals to people with HIV and other illnesses. Brinker passed away on Monday of natural … Continue reading
Interview: Drug May Be First to Prevent HIV Transmission in Healthy
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ContentsDr. Paul Volberding explains what Truvada is [Audio clip: view full post to listen]During our coverage last month of the 30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV, we explored what the earliest, dark days of the epidemic were like — … Continue reading
What Do the WHO, NIH and Other Health Organizations Say About Circumcision?
Debate has erupted over a November ballot initiative in San Francisco that aims to ban circumcision of minors. In addition to ethical and religious concerns, the health implications of circumcision (and non-circumcision) are also part … Continue reading
AIDS at 30: Interview - What Were the Earliest Days of the Epidemic Like?
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Part 2 of Scott Shafer's series of interviews surrounding the 30th anniversary of HIV/AIDS is with San Francisco community activist Paul Boneberg, who lived through the epidemic when it first struck in the early 1980s. The interview is summarized directly … Continue reading
AIDS at 30: Interview With Chief of HIV/AIDS at SF General - Treatment Past, Present and Future
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As part of KQED's coverage of the 30th anniversary of the first official report of what later came to be known as HIV, The California Report's Scott Shafer interviewed San Francisco activists and caregivers who experienced the epidemic during its … Continue reading
Read the Original 1981 CDC Report on HIV
Sunday will mark the 30th anniversary of the first official notice of the virus that would soon become known as HIV. In 2006, for the 25th anniversary, The American Journal of Public Health reprinted the original report from Morbidity and … Continue reading
Audio/Video: As AIDS Hits 30, Taking Stock of Where We Are
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In the early 1990s, I moved to the Castro. Until then, ensconced in my heterosexual bubble, as it were, I'd been only vaguely aware of the scourge of AIDS. But this new neighborhood — it felt haunted. Cadaverous men, leaning … Continue reading
