Contagious and Infectious Diseases

Keep Those Nasty Bits Squeaky Clean: USA300 Wants You!

Get Your Teenage Soccer Slut HPV-Proofed

SF's Staph Problem, Please Report to the State

MRSA-Killing Fogger Invented by Brits: Bloody Good Job

Pro-Circumcision AIDS Researcher Left S.F. a Pariah, Came Back a Visionary

U.S. State Department: now with HIV!

Sunday Photos: AIDS Walk through Golden Gate Park

Letters

Outbreak

AIDS dissidents Peter Duesberg and Bryan Ellison find new enemies: each other

Conscientious Injectors

The enforcement of drug laws should be less hurtful than the dangers inherent indrug use itself, say the "harm reductionists" at Prevention Point, who practice what they preach by distributing 1.5 million needles to the city's drug users

Getting Hep

Hepatitis B is the Rodney Dangerfield of diseases: It just can't get respect. But it sure can kill you.

San Francisco Department of Public Health Contained Measles Outbreak, Possibly Saving Lives

Without a measles vaccine, your children's lives may be in danger.Just weeks ago, a San Francisco man who had traveled abroad brought back a deadly souvenier. He had spent some time in Europe with a friend who had been diagnosed with measles, and several days aft ... More >>

Petrelis the Pest

Michael Petrelis has entered the AIDS debate once again

The Living Daylights

Some people with HIV don't get sick for years and years and years. Their lives might contain the clues for the cure.

Embattled Harvey Milk Democratic Club prez Brian Basinger starts another Democratic Club

Some people with HIV don't get sick for years and years and years. Their lives might contain the clues for the cure.

Lust for Life

Testing of a promising HIV vaccine requires volunteers who will couple for the cause

Sloganeering

For years the city has been using racy ads to sell HIV prevention. Do they work?

Radio Free Nepal

An S.F. organization is providing radios and radio programming that just may save lives a world away

Super-Hyped Infection

Sensational headlines coupled with fearmongering public health reports have HIV-positive men in San Francisco running scared. It doesn't have to be that way.

Unreality Show

The 9-11 Commission is a nutty distraction from the dangers we face

Vicious Cycle

Federal investigators clear AIDS prevention programs of wrongdoing -- and then reinvestigate them

Staying Alive

An AIDS vaccine should be our government's highest priority. So why is one researcher forced to seek funding from the War on Terrorism?

Saving Togo

One man's hope for Nigeria's tiny neighbor

Out of Africa

Some say Phyllis Kanki saved Senegal from AIDS. But can the controversial triage approach she's developing at Stanford protect the continent's western edge from the devastation suffered in the south?

Too Young to Die

They are the "AIDS babies." Born before doctors learned how to prevent HIV transmission to newborns, hundreds of California kids are growing up under the burden of a deadly disease.

Letters to the Editor

Letters from November 29, 2000

A Day to Remember

World AIDS Day

Sticking Point

An AIDS vaccine designed by renowned researcher Don Francis is in final testing. The Plague could be over - but the gay and scientific establishments are utterly unenthused.

Private Places

Gay activists push for return of traditional bathhouses

Long Lost, Late Won

Gay activists push for return of traditional bathhouses

Fighting AIDS on the Body's Own Ground

Researchers are stunned by a gland they thought dormant

Encore!

Researchers are stunned by a gland they thought dormant

Safe Haven?

Gay-bashing survivor applies for political asylum

Savage Love

Gay-bashing survivor applies for political asylum

Savage Love

Gay-bashing survivor applies for political asylum

Positive and Unprotected

More HIV-infected gay men are choosing unprotected sex with infected partners; questions about the dangers go begging

Dog Bites

More HIV-infected gay men are choosing unprotected sex with infected partners; questions about the dangers go begging

Men Behaving Viciously

How ACT UP San Francisco spreads spit, fake blood, used cat litter, and potentially deadly misinformation through the AIDS community

Letters

How ACT UP San Francisco spreads spit, fake blood, used cat litter, and potentially deadly misinformation through the AIDS community

The AIDS Civil War

The promise of a new treatment has opened a painful divide

City of Night

Homeless gay youths in San Francisco run an extraordinary risk of HIV infection, according to city statistics. On the street, safety is a matter of economics -- and hope.

Samples

Homeless gay youths in San Francisco run an extraordinary risk of HIV infection, according to city statistics. On the street, safety is a matter of economics -- and hope.

Walk On By

Homeless gay youths in San Francisco run an extraordinary risk of HIV infection, according to city statistics. On the street, safety is a matter of economics -- and hope.

Just Fantastic: $82.1 Million Cut to State's Office of AIDS

​Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed a state budget that will cut roughly $82.1 million from the state's Office of AIDS, says that office's chief, Dr. Michelle Roland. The state cuts promise to disproportionately hit cities like San Francisco, which is among the nation's top ... More >>

Whooping Cough Epidemic Prompts Possible Crackdown on Unvaccinated Kids

​So far this year, whooping cough has killed five babies in California. Although none of those were San Francisco children, cases of whooping cough in this city have increased sixfold -- and now the San Francisco Department of Public Health is considering a crackdown on children who are not vaccin ... More >>

Angels, Resurrected

​So far this year, whooping cough has killed five babies in California. Although none of those were San Francisco children, cases of whooping cough in this city have increased sixfold -- and now the San Francisco Department of Public Health is considering a crackdown on children who are not vaccin ... More >>

Sergio Romo, Giants Pitcher, Helps Kids Kick Whooping Cough

Whoop Whoop!​Apparently the tried-and-true forms of medical bribery -- a lollipop or a Winnie the Pooh Band-Aid -- just aren't cutting it anymore.But you know kids, these days -- they have such high expectations. Which is why the city has recruited Giants pitcher Sergio Romo to rub elbows with fiv ... More >>

HIV Activist Calls Mayor Ed Lee a Name the Chronicle Would Never Print

Wonder how he feels about Jeff Sheehy ... ​In this election, Mayor Ed Lee has been called many charming names -- crooked, double-crossing, sneaky, Republican. Now he can add "dick" to that growing list of insults.    According to the Bay Area Reporter, Jeff Sheehy, who was the HIV czar f ... More >>

Pros and Condoms: S.F. Emphasizes HIV Treatment, but a New Generation Advocates Bareback Sex

Wonder how he feels about Jeff Sheehy ... ​In this election, Mayor Ed Lee has been called many charming names -- crooked, double-crossing, sneaky, Republican. Now he can add "dick" to that growing list of insults.    According to the Bay Area Reporter, Jeff Sheehy, who was the HIV czar f ... More >>

On World AIDS Day, No Talk of 'Barebacking' in San Francisco

​Today is World AIDS Day, and the men and women who have devoted themselves to fighting this pandemic -- from Bono to former President George W. Bush -- can justifiably take credit for a lot of progress.The day has particular resonance in San Francisco, which was at the forefront of formulating a ... More >>