Subject: Sexually Transmitted Diseases

• Christopher Columbus Father of Modern Syphilis

  February 15, 2008

• Worst E-Card. Ever.: "So, you've been itching, burning, discharging ..."

  February 16, 2008

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

  February 22, 2008

• U.S. State Department: now with HIV!

  February 21, 2008

• Sunday Photos: AIDS Walk through Golden Gate Park

  July 21, 2008

• U.S. Marine Corps an Orgy Palace of Stoned, Drunk, Horny Teens, New UCSF Study Suggests

  By Matt SmithWhile doomsayers bemoan America's ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center may have turned up a brilliant silver lining.Thanks to desperate recruiting methods required to staff those wars, the U.S. Marines may be turning military service into a male sexual fantasy land, where recruits are paid actual money to cohabitate with drunk, stoned, horny teenage girls.UCSF scientists tested and surveyed 2,157 female U.S

  January 5, 2009

• Clap On! See Where San Francisco Stands in National STD Survey

  When in a city beginning with the letter "M," pack your own condoms -- or elseThe results of the Centers for Disease Control's annual survey on whether we've been naughty or nice are in again -- and there's a whole lotta shaking (and itching, burning, and blistering) going on. Educated folks can argue about whether healthy -- or, rather, unhealthy -- surges in chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are due to increased risky behavior or increased vigilance in testing (Lou Dobbs, we're sure, will bla

  January 19, 2009

• U Wr Gr8 Lst Nite -- BTW, Get Xamined 4 the Syphilis

  The etiquette of 21st-century dating is ever-evolving. And, to those who remember the days when safe sex meant remembering to set the parking brake on your Oldsmobile, the notion of an automated, impersonal e-card informing whomever you banged last night that you exposed him or her to syphilis/crabs/scabies/chlamydia/etc. likely does not reek of "progress." Why, in my day, such a note was delivered hand-written, on fine parchment. Kids these days!The Oakland-based Web service inSPOT (Internet No

  January 20, 2009

• Walking Penis Highlights Local Doc's Wildly Effective STD Prevention Soap Opera

  Coming soon to an STD clinic near you! The San Francisco Department of Public Health is proud to announce that Safe in the City -- a dramatic 23-minute STD prevention video developed by an SFDPH official -- has given the Centers for Disease Control a giant boner. This week, the CDC chose Safe in the City for inclusion in its 2008 Compendium of Evidence-based HIV Prevention Interventions, which essentially means that the video has been scientifically proven to t

  February 5, 2009

• Giant, Anthropomorphic Penises All the Rage in San Francisco These Days

  San Francisco Department of Public HealthThe Penismobile is a hybrid? We were sure it'd be a Jaguar XKEYou don't always say this about penises, but in San Francisco, they come in threes. First there was the walking, advice-dispensing dong featured in a locally produced health film/soap opera.Then there was local reality TV ingrate Stephen Fowler. And now, the San Francisco Healthy Penises are back! (and there are three of them!) The Healthy Penises are actually a trio of San Francisco Department

  February 13, 2009

• Letters

  May 24, 1995

• Outbreak

  May 24, 1995

• Conscientious Injectors

  June 28, 1995

• Getting Hep

  July 19, 1995

• To Live and Die (and Get Sick) in S.F.

  January 17, 1996

• Savage Love

  March 20, 1996

• Petrelis the Pest

  April 10, 1996

• The Living Daylights

  April 24, 1996

• Cruise Control

  Public health advocates want gay hookup Web sites to promote safe sex.

  April 9, 2008

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

  December 19, 2007

• Lust for Life

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

  July 26, 2006

• Sloganeering

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

  March 1, 2006

• Radio Free Nepal

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

  February 1, 2006

• 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.

  December 14, 2005

• Unreality Show

  April 14, 2004

• House of Tudor

  Rap-metal prodigy Schäffer the Darklord plays his swan song (as if you cared).

  March 24, 2004

• Vicious Cycle

  May 7, 2003

• Disease Detective

  Deborah Hayden's new book, Pox, pulls the covers off famous people with syphilis. That's right: syphilis.

  January 15, 2003

• Dying to Know

  As a young doctor's tragic fate makes clear, a lack of information about hepatitis B has put many Asian-American lives at risk

  May 1, 2002

• 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?

  March 27, 2002

• Saving Togo

  May 16, 2001

• 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?

  May 16, 2001

• Cocktail Time

  January 3, 2001

• 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.

  January 3, 2001

• A Day to Remember

  World AIDS Day

  December 1, 1999

• 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.

  July 14, 1999

• Private Places

  Gay activists push for return of traditional bathhouses

  April 28, 1999

• Fighting AIDS on the Body's Own Ground

  Researchers are stunned by a gland they thought dormant

  July 1, 1998

• Safe Haven?

  Gay-bashing survivor applies for political asylum

  April 1, 1998

• Savage Love

  December 3, 1997

• Savage Love

  November 19, 1997

• Savage Love

  July 30, 1997

• Positive and Unprotected

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

  July 9, 1997

• Dog Bites

  April 30, 1997

• Men Behaving Viciously

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

  March 19, 1997

• Letters

  March 12, 1997

• The AIDS Civil War

  The promise of a new treatment has opened a painful divide

  February 19, 1997

• 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.

  February 21, 1996

• 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 20 counties when it comes to AIDS and HIV prevalence, according to the online HIV/AIDS Atlas provided by the National Minority Quality Forum. Courtney Mulhern-Pearson of the San Francisco AIDS Found

  July 28, 2009

• S.F clinics limiting STD tests to cut costs

  October 28, 2009