San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission has gone after the New York Post for its coverage in the International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Khan scandal in New York City. The Post wrote an article about the possibility of the accuser having HIV or AIDS.
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Anne Donnelly, the director of health care policy at Project Inform, will be honored today with the Lonnie Payne-Clark Award by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation at the Leadership Recognition Dinner in the Ritz-Carlton, 600 Stockton St. She has worked in the field of HIV-AIDS for 21 years.
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Dozens of clients of a San Francisco community health organization were displaced this afternoon when a two-alarm fire damaged their home in The City's Tenderloin neighborhood.The fire was reported at about 12:20 p.m. at the Kinney Hotel, a four-story, single-room occupancy hotel at 410 Eddy St., San Francisco fire Lt. Mindy Talmadge said.
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David Weissman is the San Francisco-based director of “We Were Here,” a documentary that details the impact of AIDS in The City in the 1980s through the stories of five people. The movie, which had a good showing at Sundance, will open at the Castro Theatre on Friday.Who has had the biggest influence on you in your life?
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By Alexis Terrazas
02/02/11 8:10 PM
Fewer people were tested for HIV in San Mateo County last year, but more tested positive over prior years, according to the latest health study.The STD/HIV fourth-quarter report by the San Mateo County Health System, STD/HIV Program, suggests that 2010 was a level-out year for sexually transmitted disease infection rates overall among San Mateo County residents.
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Beth Feingold is the executive director of Under One Roof, a volunteer-run nonprofit gift store at 518 Castro St. Proceeds go to 24 Bay Area nonprofits providing direct services to people with HIV/AIDS. To volunteer or for more information, visit www.underoneroof.org.
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Reading"Masters and Commanders," Andrew Roberts' magnificent account of British and American leaders in World War II, I was struck by how many of them, working prodigious hours and under great strain, were struck down by heart attacks while in their 60s. This doesn't happen anymore, I thought, with the blood pressure and cholesterol medicines many of us routinely take.
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Reading"Masters and Commanders," Andrew Roberts' magnificent account of British and American leaders in World War II, I was struck by how many of them, working prodigious hours and under great strain, were struck down by heart attacks while in their 60s. This doesn't happen anymore, I thought, with the blood pressure and cholesterol medicines many of us routinely take.
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The first-ever Light in the Grove event, marking the 20th anniversary of the Ryan White CARE Act, will take place tonight in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park on the eve of World AIDS Day. The 6 p.m. event will honor Pat Christen, the architect of the act, former executive director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and current executive director of HopeLab.
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Figuring out what’s inconsistent with NPR’s editorial standards can be awful difficult. The network terminated the contract for Fox News contributor Juan Williams because of a comment about Muslims, but apparently has yet to take a similar action against Nina Totenberg. From Reason’s Michael Moynihan:
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