SF News Obama Names S.F. HIV Expert As Head Of National AIDS Policy Another local official got a presidential nod this week: Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of HIV Prevention and Research for San Francisco's Department of Public Health, has been appointed by President Obama to head
SF News National HIV Testing Day Is Today Before it turned into lazy comedians' anti-gay punchline at bad comedy clubs across the country, HIV/AIDS continues to kill scores of people all over the world. But it doesn't have to be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: 'Life Before the Lifeboat' Featuring Dr. Paul Volberding After heading out to play in the Civic Center during the Gay Pride festivities and Gay Inc.-related parties and whatnot, be sure to check out Life Before the Lifeboat on KQED. Airing
SF News Twin Peaks to Sport Giant AIDS Ribbon On Sunday, May 22, San Francisco will mark the 30th anniversary of when the first AIDS case was reported in the city. To reflect on the occasion, Twin Peaks will don a giant
SF News Little Outcry For Doomed S.F. LGBT & HIV Institutions While the battle cry for jesuit school's radio station gets louder and louder, the outcry over the closure over San Francisco's queer and HIV institutions grows quieter and quieter. (Except for a noted
SF News HIV Infections in Retreat, Claim SF Health Researchers The BAR (where one can now - at last! - comment on articles) says that HIV infections in San Francisco are now in "retreat." Over the last decade, the rate of new HIV
SF News Two HIV Treatments By Local Companies, One a 'Functional Cure,' Get Press and Market Attention Today we find news about two local companies with HIV drugs that are receiving some fresh attention. Richmond-based Sangamo BioSciences Inc. has developed a cell therapy that is being billed as a "functional
SF News Tim Lincecum's HIV/AIDS PSA Questioned Lightning-quick blogger Allan Hough of Mission Mission spotted this odd bit of AIDS cure awareness, or lack thereof. Namely, the new Tim Lincecum HIV/AIDS awareness PSAs on BART trains. The copy reads,
Arts & Entertainment Friday: Protest Screenings of David Wojnarowicz's Censored 'A Fire in My Belly' Some last-minute screenings of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly have been scheduled on Friday night as part of a national protest of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's removal of the
SF News Photos: World AIDS Day 2010 Around The Globe Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day, a time set aside to collectively "take action to tackle HIV prejudice and to protect yourself and others from HIV transmission." In San Francisco, a city
SF News Why Is a California State Agency Illegally Revealing Info About HIV+ Patients? The ACLU, Lambda Legal, and HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA) are "demanding a full explanation for the unauthorized and illegal disclosures of confidential identifying information of approximately 5,000 HIV-positive Medi-Cal
SF News New Leaf Closing for Good In October After 35 years of providing mental health, substance abuse, and senior services to the LGBT community, HIV/AIDS patients and beyond, New Leaf announced it will close its doors by the middle of
misc Gay-Friendly Airline's 'Bareback' Ad LAN Airlines, a "gay-friendly" airline that served as the official international airline for San Francisco Pride 2010, has a new ad campaign popping up at Muni stops all over San Francisco. Hmm. Do
SF News UPDATED: Annual AIDS Walk Raises $3M Sunday's 6.2-mile SF AIDS Walk pulled in more than $3 million. An estimated 25,000 participants showed up to help raise much-needed funds for HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and care. This comes
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Pieces of the AIDS Memorial Quilt While AIDS humor will never fail to tickle the funny bones of lazy comedians and the BPR-swilling set, people are still dying from it. Yes, still. Right in your neighborhood too. The AIDS
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: M.C. Mars by Justin Juul M.C. Mars is a 59 year-old rapper with HIV who has been driving cabs for over thirty years. He’s also a published writer and a former sex machine.
SF News Free Doctor Housecalls For HIV+ People With Flu A clinical trial is taking place in San Francisco for HIV+ people who are exhibiting flu symptoms in which they can qualify for free in-home doctor visits. Quest Clinical Studies, Conant Medical Group
SF News New HIV Vaccine Study Shows "Modest" Benefits Conducted by the Thailand Ministry of Public Health, a new vaccine study has shown "modest" benefits in preventing HIV. Said results show that we could have a "safe and effective" preventive vaccine at
SF News SF AIDS Cuts Postponed The fine folks over at the Bay Area Reporter have word that local health officials will postpone "cutting AIDS contracts until mid-October in order to give the Board of Supervisors time to respond
SF News Bone Marrow Transplant Cures AIDS? While we'll wait to ask you all to throwout your condoms, we did just come across this interesting story about an American man who, it seems, "appears to have been cured of [the
SF News Photos: AIDS Walk Nets Crazy Millions (By Joe Kukura) It was good times yesterday at the AIDS Walk San Francisco (expect for the parts where we were freezing our asses off, or sobbing at the AIDS Quilt). The annual
misc Tweaked Anti-Meth Campaign Posters Gay men and uppers go together like peanut butter and chocolate. It's just the way God wanted it. But that hasn't stopped Joel Schumacher's "I Lost Me to Meth" campaign from saturating San
misc I Lost Me--and Faith In Drug Awareness Campaigns--to Meth Speaking of methamphetamines, the above campaign unleashed the typical brouhaha in the bent community: to chastise or not to chastise speed users? This most recent ad campaign--a four-month media blitz produced by the
Arts & Entertainment Gaylord of the Dance: an AIDS Lifecycle Fundraiser Gaylord of the Dance - Teaser from Scott Saraceno on Vimeo. For better or for worse, spring is in the air. And with that comes the many AIDS Lifecycle Fundraisers that will litter
SF News Tour Connected Bus: Vehicle of the Future While not all of us are fortunate enough to zip around in swank Aston Martins, or have sleek Tesla waiting for us on the horizon, the "bus of the future" is the next
