HIV/AIDS

Doctors say a Brazilian man who was infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body

Pharmacists in California will be able to dispense HIV prevention pills to patients without a doctor’s prescription after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that supporters say will greatly reduce the spread of infection.

The International AIDS Conference will return to San Francisco, 30 years after it was last held in the Bay Area.

From gritty neighborhoods in New York and Los Angeles to clinics in Kenya and Brazil, health workers are trying to popularize a pill that has proven highly effective in preventing HIV but which — in their view — remains woefully underused. Marketed in the United States as Truvada, and sometimes available abroad in generic versions, the pill has been shown...

December 1 is recognized globally as World AIDS Day. The World Health Organization (WHO) established the annual observance in 1988 as a way to offer communities the chance to unite to fight against the HIV/AIDS stigma, commemorate those who have lost the battle with AIDS, and also show support for those who are living with the disease. This year’s theme...

Scores of people laced up their walking shoes Sunday and strolled through Golden Gate Park as part of the annual AIDS Walk San Francisco, and this year’s event featured an extra political wrinkle.

Scott Schoettes, Counsel and HIV Project Director at Lambda Legal, explained in a Newsweek op-ed Friday that he and five colleagues decided to leave their posts on the council in protest of the Trump administration, which they allege “has no strategy to address the on-going HIV/AIDS epidemic.”...
Schoettes, who is openly HIV positive, added that the White House is also pushing...

President Donald Trump is moving forward with a plan to massively expand a ban on federal dollars going to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information. Senior administration officials said Monday a plan to expand the so-called “Mexico City Policy” had gone into effect. The policy would apply broadly to organizations receiving U.S. global health assistance, compared with...

In scrubs and sweaters, staff at Kaiser Permanente-San Leandro Medical Center marched around the hospital on World AIDS Day to remember patients lost to the disease.
Thursday’s march was dedicated to one particular patient, Ron Chavez, who founded Grupo VIP, a support group for HIV-positive Spanish speakers based in Fremont 13 years ago.

In scrubs and sweaters, staff at Kaiser Permanente-San Leandro Medical Center marched around the hospital on World AIDS Day to remember patients lost to the disease. Thursday’s march was dedicated to one particular patient, Ron Chavez, who founded Grupo VIP, a support group for HIV-positive Spanish speakers based in Fremont 13 years ago.

Thousands of people marched through Golden Gate Park on Sunday for San Francisco’s 30th annual AIDS walk, raising over $2 million for various HIV/AIDS programs and services throughout the Bay Area.

San Francisco is trying to pioneer the way in the fight against HIV AIDS. On Thursday, Mayor Ed Lee and other city leaders announced a new plan – and a lot more money to dedicate to the problem.