HIV & AIDS

Activists join the ACT UP 30th anniversary gathering rally in March 2017 at St. Vincent Triangle Park in New York City.

Long-Term AIDS Survivors Launch Advocacy Movement

09.17.2020

By Hank Trout

AIDS2020: Virtual, the biannual conference of the International AIDS Society, held in early July, marked a turning point for long-term HIV/AIDS survivors — and not a good one. Five of us in San Francisco who have been on the front lines of the fight for our LGBTQ and HIV communities from the very beginning, left the event feeling sidelined and fed up. So, we met to discuss the myriad issues confronted by us long-term survivors. The result: The San Francisco Principles 2020, which we hope will be the seed for a new movement.

City Clears Homeless Residents From Notorious Tenderloin Alley

Pandemic and Protest: How AIDS and LGBTQ Activism in the ’80s Informs the Present

AIDS Research Used to Battle COVID-19 at S.F. Lab

California drugmaker's HIV prevention pill sparks public health debate

HIV & AIDS

“Visual Aid” offers outlet, insight into artists with AIDS

09.22.2011

By Ambika Kandasamy, Reporter & Assistant News Editor

Group archives, displays works of hundreds from Bay Area
To help artists who were suffering from life-threatening illnesses, a collective of artists, art collectors and gallery owners began convening at local art spaces in the city in late 1980s. Their mission was to find a means to record the existing works of artists with AIDS and provide them with the materials they needed to create new ones. The group grew into a fullfledged nonprofit called Visual Aid in 1989, and the organization has been supporting hundreds of Bay Area artists since then.

Bay Area

HIV, AIDS gap widens between blacks and other ethnic groups in East Bay

07.09.2010

By Danielle J. Brown, Reporter

As overall AIDS rates fall in Alameda County, the rate in the black community has hardly budged in the past 10 years, making African Americans in this part of the East Bay increasingly overrepresented among sufferers of the disease.

Community

Report: Black, Latino young men twice as likely to suffer from poor health

07.01.2010

By Katy Gathright, Intern

A new report concerning the health of boys of different ethnicities focuses on the effect of neighborhoods and communities on physical and mental health.

HIV & AIDS

Video quilt stitches together stories of HIV/AIDS battle

06.21.2010

By Theresa Seiger, Grants and Donations Manager, Reporter

In the store it doesn’t look like much, but inside the booth on Castro Street something bigger is going on. Generations HIV, part of the HIV Story Project, aims to get conversation flowing about how HIV/AIDS have affected different generations by allowing people to record questions, answers or stories about the diseases within the booth.

Aging

State cuts set to slam San Francisco’s seniors, poor

09.16.2009

By Christopher D. Cook, Project editor, City Budget Watchdog

Already reeling from a deep recession and massive cuts to staff and services in this year’s budget, San Francisco is being hammered by a new tidal wave of state cuts — estimated at $26.5 million — which could put low-income seniors and others on the brink of homelessness and hunger, many advocates say.

HIV & AIDS

Cuts to state HIV and AIDS programs will put thousands at risk

06.10.2009

By Lizzy Tomei, Reporter

Proposed cuts in funding to HIV and AIDS programs around the state could put thousands of lives at risk and set back years of progress fighting the disease, activists and service providers say.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest budget proposal would cut $80 million from the state Office of AIDS budget, reducing funding to prevention and testing programs and disease trend tracking by 80 percent. The cuts would also reduce funding for home care, cut the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) budget by $12.3 million, and eliminate the Therapeutic Monitoring Program, which pays for blood tests for people with HIV infection.