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Survivor walks to help those without insurance

Two hundred teams will be hitting the streets of San Francisco for next weekend’s Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. One of those teams, first-time Avon participants Mercy for Breasts, is a group of five best friends from Burlingame’s Mercy High School class of 1980. Cancer-free for three years, Bonnie Gordon of the Mercy team considers herself “the luckiest person walking on the face of the Earth” and feels “the experience helped me define what is important in my life.” Read More

City anticipates new focus on HIV

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With one of the nation’s largest populations of gay men, San Francisco expects to greatly benefit from President Barack Obama’s new national strategy to help drastically reduce the number of HIV infections — especially among the black and gay communities, where the disease is most prevalent. Read More
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