SF News Moderna is Set to Begin Clinical Trials for an HIV Vaccine The elusive HIV vaccine could be on the way, as Moderna is set to begin jabbing 56 adults in the first ever mRNA HIV vaccine clinical trial in humans.
SF News Virtual COVID-19 Conference, Attached To SF-Hosted AIDS Conference, To Feature 140 Studies On Friday On Friday, July 10, a day-long virtual conference on COVID-19 and research underway into how to treat the disease kicks off at 7:30 a.m., tacked on to the end of the annual International AIDS Conference which was supposed to be taking place — physically — in San Francisco.
SF News AIDS Quilt Leftovers Being Hand-Sewn Into COVID-19 Masks By ‘The Mother of the Quilt’ “Chief Quilt Coordinator” Gert McMullin is sewing 80 masks per day out of unused AIDS Quilt fabric that dates back to the 1980s.
SF News AIDS Memorial Grove Director Talks Museum Aspirations The National AIDS Memorial Grove, nurtured by more than 175,000 volunteer hours and visited by countless people, is preparing for new growth, perhaps adding a museum to present the history of the
SF News An AIDS Museum? National AIDS Memorial Grove Staff Explores Possibility Word is out regarding a "nascent" effort being "discreetly" explored by the staff of the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. The New York Times reveals the early stages and aspirations
SF News Scott Wiener Jumps On Truvada Train, Tells The World He Is On It Sometimes our gay Supervisors have to battle it out for who's courting the gay vote better, and this week it's all about Truvada the HIV-prevention pill that Supervisor David Campos says more people
SF News Supervisor Pushing For Free/Cheap HIV-Prevention Drug Truvada The HIV-prevention drug Truvada, a.k.a. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) has been a topic of approximately 9 trillion conversations in gay bars over the last year, in large part due to the growing
SF News More HIV-Negative Gay Men Should Consider Taking Truvada, Say SF Porn Stars This new documentary short/PSA from Fusion TV has just come out featuring San Francisco-based gay porn models Max Cameron and Drew Sebastian. Max is HIV-negative, while Drew, his boyfriend of a year
SF News San Francisco Groups To Explore Handing Out Free Crack Pipes In an effort to curb HIV infections in San Francisco, members of local HIV prevention groups are cooking up a new plan to distribute pipes to crack users who they say are at
SF News CA Porn Industry Lifts HIV-Related Moratorium [Updated] On Friday the porn industry will lift a moratorium on shooting that has now been in effect for two weeks following the announcements of HIV infections of three performers. Two of the performers,
SF News Two HIV Infections At Kink.com Temporarily Halt Shooting Kink.com found itself at the center of an industry-wide HIV scare in recent weeks after a female performer tested positive during routine testing. Now a second, male performer who was dating her
SF News HIV Vaccine Trial Halted After Too Many Subjects Contract HIV [Updated] Yet another clinical trial for a vaccine to prevent HIV has failed, and for 48 men and transgendered individuals it meant that they contracted the virus while participating in the study. The study,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sponsored Post: Support the HIV/AIDS Fight by Dining Out for Life Dining Out for Life is the Bay Area’s premier dining event to support a very worthy cause. The annual one-day fundraiser to help fight HIV/AIDS in our community is hosted at
Arts & Entertainment The Photograph That Changed the Face of AIDS December 1st marks the 25th annual World AIDS Day, and LIFE.com revisits a turning point in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Shot in November 1990 by journalism student Therese Frare,
SF News New Study Blames Spread of HIV/AIDS On Women, Sort Of Although the early stages of the AIDS epidemic saw more men infected with HIV than women, a new study from UC San Francisco suggests that certain factors unique to women could be contributing
SF News San Francisco Tap Water Unsafe for Those with HIV/AIDS? San Francisco's much-lauded Hetch Hetchy tap water might have a problematic impurity for some city residents. As SFWeekly reports today, the water that SF Public Utilities Commission loves to brag about gets a
SF News Obama Reverses 22-Year-Old HIV Travel Ban In 1987, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, the Department of Health and Human Services added HIV to the list of communicable diseases that barred tourists and travelers from entry into the
