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STOP AIDS In The News
| 9/23/07 | New SF Black Gay WEBSITE! SFCORE |
I have put together a resource BLOG for Black gay folks in San Francisco. |
| 8/9/07 | Venture fund applicants sought to diversify Castro Bay Area Reporter |
If you live in the Castro, you may have spent the last few years wondering where all the women and people of color have gone. If so, you're not the only one. |
| 8/9/07 | City says meth use is at 'high plateau' Bay Area Reporter |
Despite some data suggesting that methamphetamine use among gay men has declined in recent years, a city panel tasked with addressing what health officials consider "the other epidemic" after HIV maintains that usage remains at a "high plateau." |
| 8/9/07 | The Stars Come Out for Help Is On The Way San Francisco Bay Times |
The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation mounted their annual fundraising show, “Help Is on the Way,” acclaimed as Northern California’s largest annual star-studded gala concert. |
| 7/31/07 | Bar AIDS |
On Thursday, August 23, 2007, San Francisco bars will generously donate a portion of their sales to benefit the STOP AIDS Project and our HIV prevention work in San Francisco. |
| 7/31/07 | HELP IS ON THE WAY XIII GOES TO THE MOVIES San Francisco Sentinel |
Coming Sunday, August 5th, the 13th Annual HELP IS ON THE WAY. This year’s event takes place at the Palace of Fine Arts. |
| 7/26/07 | Meth Use Among Gay Men Decreasing; Other Drug Use Holding Steady |
Researchers from the San Francisco Department of Public Health report that meth use among men who have sex with men has decreased over the past three years. They attribute the change to successful public health campaigns, but say that drug use is still a problem. |
| 7/26/07 | City's HIV epidemic said to be over Bay Area Reporter |
Speaking at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation gala in May, the agency's executive director did not mince words. Two sentences into his speech that night, Mark Cloutier made a startling announcement. |
| 7/15/07 | S.F. AIDS Walk Generates Over $4.5 Million KPIX tv |
The 21st annual AIDS Walk generated over $4.5 million, according to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, making this year's walk the most successful single-day AIDS fundraiser in California history. |
| 7/15/07 | AIDS Walk - podcast KCSB |
KCSB podcase of AIDS Walk interviews. |
| 7/5/07 | AIDS Walk - San Francisco - 2007 zaadz |
The funds raised by participates in AIDS Walk San Francisco benefits many important programs. |
| 6/28/07 | AIDS Walk next month Bay Area Reporter |
The 21st annual AIDS Walk San Francisco kicks off Sunday, July 15 in Golden Gate Park. Thousands of walkers from the Bay Area and beyond will converge on Sharon Meadow to raise money for the 42 benefiting organizations throughout the region. |
| 6/12/07 | SF: CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TARGETING METH EPIDEMIC Bay City News Wire |
The San Francisco Department of Public Health is launching a "Resist Meth" campaign today that targets gay and bisexual men. |
| 5/23/07 | Pfizer
Grant Recipients, Windy City Times |
The foundation is awarding $7.5 million in grants. TPAN and Chicago House are the only Illinois organizations to be selected. Other agencies include the Latino Commission on AIDS ( New York City ) and the STOP AIDS Project ( San Francisco ) |
| 5/29/07 | Wong, Cassidy, Cook, Locke, McIntyre and Pettiford Set
for Help Is On the Way XIII Concert Play Bill |
Stars are lining up to take part in the 13th annual Help Is On the Way benefit concert, which is set for Aug. 5. |
| 5/17/07 | Big Gay Frat House Celebrates Cinco De Mayo Bay Times |
Big Gay Frat House party on June 7th benefiting Stop AIDS Project. |
| 4/24/07 | Needed: Routine HPV vaccines and Pap smears for gay and
bisexual men San Francisco Chronicle |
If you have followed the news, you've heard about advances in preventing cancers caused by HPV (human papilloma virus). |
| 4/21/07 | Bay Area doctors promote Pap tests for gay men to combat
cancer sfgate.com |
Some Bay Area doctors are promoting Pap tests for gay men to reduce rising rates of anal cancer |
| 4/21/07 | Doctors want Pap test for gay men San Francisco Chronicle |
Bay Area doctors are leading a campaign to bring gay men into their offices for a basic exam that women have been enduring for decades -- the Pap test. |
| 4/19/07 | Dine Out For Life Raises $$ to Help Stop AIDS Bay Times |
On Thursday, April 26 all across San Francisco, friends will gather at restaurants and eateries to help raise money for the critical work of the STOP AIDS Project |
| 4/10/07 | Gay men taking HPV vaccine The Advocate |
Gay and bisexual men in San Francisco are signing up to take Gardasil, the vaccine intended to prevent the human papillomavirus in women. |
| 4/9/07 | Dining Out For Life - San Francisco Social Diva |
The event is called Dining Out for Life. For those who are unfamiliar with the event, it is an evening where participating restaurants donate 25% of your food bill to benefit the HIV prevention programs of the STOP AIDS Project. |
| 4/8/07 | Gay men taking HPV vaccine Boy Buff |
Gay and bisexual men in San Francisco are signing up to take Gardasil, the vaccine intended to prevent the human papillomavirus in women. |
| 4/6/07 | Gay Men In San Francisco Gets HPV Vaccine For Women Vaccine Rx |
A recent development in San Francisco has Gay Men taking Gardasil, the HPV vaccine for women. |
| 4/6/07 | Some Gay Men In S.F. Getting HPV Vaccine For Women CBS4 Denver |
They don't know if it will stop them from getting cancer, but gay and bisexual men in San Francisco are taking a vaccine meant to prevent cancer in females. |
| 4/6/07 | Men Taking HPV Vaccine to Prevent Cancer MyFox Austin |
Now, some gay and bisexual men are taking the vaccine as well too trying to ward off anal and penile cancer, which can also be caused by HPV. |
| 4/6/07 | Gay
men want HPV vaccine Gay Socialites |
Gay and bisexual men in San Francisco are asking their doctors for prescriptions to take Gardasil, the vaccine used to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) in women. |
| 4/5/07 | Anal cancer screening would save lives Bay Area Reporter |
More and more gay and bisexual men are battling anal cancer, caused by a virus that a majority of us have and most of us have never heard about. |
| 4/5/07 | New In Brief Bay Area Reporter |
The Stop AIDS Project will hold a community forum Monday, April 9 from 7 to 9 p.m. to discuss recent studies that have shown a high rate of anal cancer among gay men. |
| 4/5/07 | Gay Men Hope Lady Drug Will Save Asses Queerty |
Preventing Anal Cancer with HPV Vaccine? The HPV vaccine is possibly one of the most controversial medical advancements in recent history. |
| 4/5/07 | Some Gay Men In SF Getting HPV Vaccine For Women CBS 13 |
They don't know if it will stop them from getting cancer, but gay and bisexual men in San Francisco are taking a vaccine meant to prevent cancer in females. |
| 3/29/07 | STOP AIDS Project Promotes Safety In Cyberspace SF Bay Times |
The STOP AIDS Project will hold an Internet personal safety workshop on Wednesday April 4 to help address what some are calling an increase in crimes originating via online hook-up sites for gay and bisexual men. |
| 1/31/07 | A Changing Battle on AIDS Is Reflected in a Quilt | It has been 20 years since Cleve Jones started the AIDS Memorial Quilt here, painting the name of a friend who had died from the disease on a simple piece of fabric. |
| 12/23/06 | Positive expression -- youths confront illness, draw strength
from Healing Arts program San Francisco Chronicle |
Mazen Nassar who, in 2004, began the Healing Arts program at Bay Area Young Positives (BAY Positives), a nonprofit, peer-run organization dedicated to supporting youths with HIV and AIDS, remembers the genesis of that particular piece well. |
| 12/4/06 | AIDS at 25: How is the Bay Area preventing the spread
of HIV? KALW 91.7 San Francisco (requires Real Player) |
This year marks twenty-five years since the first AIDS case reports. To date, over twenty thousand people have died from AIDS and its complications in San Francisco and Alameda counties alone. |
| 12/1/06 | A day in the life Southern Voice |
A 2004 story explores the Stop AIDS Project, a controversial AIDS prevention group with a pro-sex message that was in trouble of losing its funding. |
| 11/23/06 | Peril & promise
of serosorting Bay Area Reporter |
Through community forums, health promotion campaigns, and the news media, serosorting has taken center stage as the newest innovation in HIV prevention. |
| 11/2/06 | Pre-Halloween festivities in the City by the Bay Bay Area Reporter |
The biggest pre-Halloween event was Stop AIDS Project's Queens Are Wild casino night at the Green Room of the War Memorial Building last Friday. |
| 10/5/06 | AOF names '07 grantees Bay Area Reporter |
Academy of Friends, producers of the annual Oscar-night gala that benefits area HIV/AIDS organizations, has announced its beneficiaries for next year's event, which is expected to raise $500,000. |
| 10/6/06 | AIDS main killer of men in SF Bay Area Reporter |
It has been eight years since the Bay Area Reporter 's now-historic front-page headline "No Obits" and news story detailing that for the first time since the AIDS epidemic began the paper had no death notices in its August 13, 1998 issue. |
| 9/28/06 | Glamour, seriousness mark Macy's Passport Bay Area Reporter |
If the runway fashions at the Macy's Passport show are any indication, the trendy looks this season include low-slung suspenders; jackets with emblems, fur, and big buttons; colorful accents in shades of dark orange; and urban takes on old classics, from hybrid newsboy-ball caps to argyle-diamond sweatshirts. |
| 9/28/06 | Local reaction mostly positive to HIV test changes Bay Area Reporter |
Reaction by local health officials and activists has been mostly positive to an announcement last week by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calling for routine HIV testing for all Americans ages 13 to 64. |
| 9/21/06 | Queer youth work too graphic for Macy's show Bay Area Reporter |
Content developed by queer youth from San Francisco's Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center raised red flags for organizers of the annual "Teen Night" at Macy's Passport show, an HIV prevention education event and fashion show held this week at Fort Mason Center. |
| 9/12/06 | SF STOP AIDS PROJECT TO UNVEIL MOBILE TESTING UNIT Out In San Francisco |
Starting this fall, the San Francisco Stop AIDS Project is hitting the streets with their new Mobile Testing RV. The large 30-foot RV will appear regularly at several of San Francisco's hottest late-night spots for gay, bisexual and transgender men. |
| 8/23/06 | Event Listings, Thursday 23rd San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Usually a hard night of drinking contributes to nothing but your personal hangover fund. Tonight, however, simply by drinking at one of 13 SF bars, you can contribute to the STOP AIDS Project. |
| 8/17/06 | Rumored use of AIDS drugs as preventive aids overblown Mercury News |
Breathless media reports and a federal government survey made public last year had fueled fears that healthy people are gulping Gilead Sciences' pills to shield them from the AIDS virus before engaging in risky sex or intravenous drug use. |
| 8/17/06 | Bars join in fighting HIV Bay Area Reporter |
Next Thursday, August 24, 13 bars in seven San Francisco neighborhoods will donate a portion of their sales to support the work of the Stop AIDS Project. |
| 8/10/06 | Doin’ Time
At Mack Folsom Prison With Kurt Wagner San Francisco Bay Times |
As a free event offered by the Stop AIDS Project, local sexual circuitry guru Kurt Wagner took a group of us through some interactive exercises to help us make our sexual connections more satisfying. |
| 8/11/06 | SAN FRANCISCO GAY CLUBS TO 'BAR AIDS' Out In America |
Thirteen bars in seven San Francisco neighborhoods will donate a portion of their sales on Thursday, Aug. 24, to support the work of the STOP AIDS Project. |
| 8/3/06 | Early '06 AIDS figures show decline Bay Area Reporter |
The latest numbers for diagnosed AIDS cases in San Francisco show a decline for the first half of 2006, though health department officials emphasized that reporting delays by hospitals, doctors, and clinics likely mean the figures will increase in future reports. |
| 7/20/06 | Positive Force re-launches 'Club Life' Bay Area Reporter |
The Stop AIDS Project's Positive Force program has announced it will re-launch its popular "Club Life" dance parties, beginning Thursday, July 27. |
| 6/27/06 | Cook, Daly, Gibson, Lee, Runolfsson and More to Show Help
Is On the Way July 30 Playbill.com |
Stars are lining up to take part in the twelfth annual Help Is on the Way benefit concert, which is set for July 30. The 7:30 PM concert will be held at the 3,000-seat Masonic Auditorium, located atop San Francisco's Nob Hill. |
| 6/23/06 | trade
show SFStation.com |
The TRADING CARD project is designed to celebrate and recognize a few of the colorful characters that make great things happen in San Francisco. |
| 6/11/06 | Living With AIDS 25 Years Later San Francisco Chronicle |
Editor -- Wyatt Buchanan's article on AIDS at 25 ("How AIDS changed us,'' Insight, June 4) in the Sunday Chronicle is a thoughtful insight into HIV in our world today. |
| 6/5/06 | Receding from Castro, virus spreads in Tenderloin San Jose Mercury News |
The AIDS epidemic once cast a deep shadow over the Castro district, the epicenter of gay life in San Francisco -- populating the streets with gaunt, blemished faces and young men leaning on canes. |
| 6/8/06 | Hundreds at AIDS vigil Bay Area Reporter |
A crowd estimated at well over 500 people participated in the AIDS Candlelight Vigil held Sunday, June 4, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the epidemic's beginning with a "personal expression to honor the dead and support the living." |
| 6/4/06 | How
AIDS Changed us - AIDS at 25 San Francisco Chronicle |
When AIDS began devastating San Francisco's gay community, it silenced what had been a giddy, almost boundless celebration of sexual freedom. |
| 6/1/06 | Events mark AIDS at 25 Bay Area Reporter |
Several events taking place this week will call attention to the 25th anniversary of HIV/AIDS. |
| 6/1/06 | AIDS: 25 Years Later San Francisco Chronicle |
The Stop AIDS Project in San Francisco recently hung 90 huge handmade paper irises on shop awnings and telephone poles throughout the Castro to mark the upcoming 25th anniversary on June 6 of the reporting of the first AIDS cases by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control. |
| 5/25/06 | Senate
panel OKs CARE Act Bay Area Reporter |
Reauthorization of the Ryan White CARE Act (S. 2823) zipped through the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on May 17. |
| 5/21/06 | Few regrets over HIV disclosure UK Gay.com |
HIV-positive gay men grappling with the anxiety-provoking issue of disclosing their status may find encouragement in a new study that found those who did so to friends and family members rarely suffered regrets |
| 5/17/06 | Stop AIDS Project art installation on display through
May 30 in San Francisco The Advocate |
To mark the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the global AIDS pandemic, San Francisco’s Stop AIDS Project is holding a neighborhood-wide public-art installation focusing on the epidemic through May 30 in the Castro section of the city. |
| 5/16/06 | STOP AIDS Project Unveils Neighborhood-wide Public Art
Installation Out in Hollywood |
June 2006 marks 25 years since the announcement of a new mysterious illness, which later became known as AIDS. To mark this moment, the Stop AIDS Project will unveil a neighborhood-wide public art installation in the Castro from May 11-30. |
| 5/11/06 | AIDS agency seeks renewed hope with iris installation Bay Area Reporter |
The STOP AIDS Project is taking the old adage stop and smell the flowers literally this spring with a floral-themed installation in the Castro to mark the 25th year of the AIDS epidemic. |
| 5/11/06 | Message wall in Castro to mark AIDS epidemic San Francisco Chronicle |
Jason Riggs from the STOP AIDS Project uses 150 live irises Wednesday to decorate an interactive message wall, which will be at the corner of 18th and Castro streets through May to commemorate the 25th year of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. |
| 5/4/06 | Few health officials ready to promote serosorting Bay Area Reporter |
The trend of gay men choosing to have sex with men of the same HIV status is universally credited with helping to bring about falling rates of HIV infections in San Francisco. |
| 4/20/06 | Gail Wilson to Do Final SF Show San Francisco Bay Times |
After more than 20 years singing for San Francisco, Gail Wilson will hold her final concert in the City, along with her City Swing big band troupe...City Swing appears annually at the Eagle Tavern, the Geezer’s Ball (benefiting the Stop AIDS Project) and at the Phoenix Uniform Ball. |
| 4/20/06 | Dine out to help AIDS groups Bay Area Reporter |
With the federal government tightening the belt buckle and forking over less AIDS-related funding, the Stop AIDS Project in San Francisco and the East Bay's Vital Life Services hope Bay Area residents will loosen their own belt buckles at the dining table next Thursday and stick their forks into dinners served up by restaurants participating in Dining Out for Life. |
| 4/6/06 | SF trends predict declining HIV rates Bay Area Reporter |
San Francisco health officials are not surprised to see the city predict a 10 percent drop in HIV infections over the last five years and report a 20 percent decline in HIV transmission rates among gay men. Numerous signs have been pointing to such a drop, they said. |
| 4/5/06 | San Francisco Announces Drop in HIV Infection Rates Out In Fresno |
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has predicted an overall drop in HIV infection rates and a drop in HIV infection rates among gay and bisexual men. |
| 4/3/06 | San Francisco Health Department Recommends Lowering Number
of New Annual HIV Cases Estimate Kaisernetwork.org |
The San Francisco HIV Prevention Planning Council at a meeting on April 13 is scheduled to consider a draft recommendation by city Department of Public Health epidemiologist Willi McFarland that proposes lowering the city's official estimate of the number of new HIV cases expected annually from 1,084 to 976, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Russell, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/31). |
| 4/2/06 |
Rate
of HIV Infections In San Francisco to Slow Down in 2006 |
HIV infection rates reported in San Francisco for 2006 are likely to be 10 percent lower than during 2001, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health, making the city a stand-out case among major urban centers in the U.S. |
| 3/22/06 | STOP AIDS Project - San Francisco The Volunteer Center |
The Mission of the STOP AIDS Project is to prevent HIV transmission among gay, bisexual and transgender men in San Francisco through collaborative, multicultural, community organizing. |
| 3/16/06 | Forum on poppers Bay Area Reporter - San Francisco, CA |
The Stop AIDS Project has started a new discussion series on men's health issues called "In Focus." |
| 3/8/06 | 'Happy hour' roundtable on alcohol Bay Area Reporter - San Francisco, CA |
The Stop AIDS Project will host a community roundtable on alcohol and sexual health Wednesday, March 15 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street in San Francisco. |
| 3/2/06 | Internet competition for HIV PSAs Bay Area Reporter - San Francisco, CA |
The STOP AIDS Project has launched a new Internet social marketing competition and is seeking contestants. |
| 2/23/06 |
Film traces meth's destructive power |
In his latest project, now making its way around the gay film fest circuit, San Francisco filmmaker Todd Ahlberg explores the increasing use of crystal meth in the gay community by weaving together the reflections of a dozen diverse gay men from across the U.S. who are both current and past users of the drug. |
| 2/14/06 |
San Francisco Chronicle Examines How Sero-Sorting Might
Contribute to Decreasing HIV Incidence Among City's MSM |
The San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday examined how sero-sorting -- the practice in which people who know their HIV status search for partners of the same status -- might be helping to reduce the incidence of HIV among men who have sex with men in San Francisco (Heredia, San Francisco Chronicle, 2/12). |
| 2/2/06 | STOP AIDS Presents: Hot Men in White Towels San Francisco Bay Times- San Francisco, CA |
Some guys find the thought of meeting other guys for casual sex and possible intimate friendships at sex clubs to be exciting. Others have never been and are curious. For that reason STOP AIDS Project offered “Hot Men—White Towels” at Eros sex club on Jan. 26 as an exploration of pleasure and to hear cruising tips and helpful hints from guys who enjoy meeting their partners at sex clubs and other spots of anonymity. |
| 2/2/06 |
STOP AIDS Project wins award |
The STOP AIDS Project's "Shining A Light on HIV" campaign, which debuted during last year's Pride weekend, has been recognized as a 2005 winner of the MarCom Creative Award, winning top honors in three different categories. |
| 1/20/06 | STOP
AIDS and Golds Gym Team Up Bay Area Reporter - San Francisco, CA |
Gay and bisexual men's physical and sexual health will be getting a workout at an upcoming forum produced by the STOP AIDS Project. |
| 1/15/06 | STOP
AIDS Project Outreach |
Come to Citysearch to get information, directions, and reviews on Stop AIDS Project Outreach and other listings in San Francisco. |
| 1/12/06 | News
in brief |
The "Our Love" black men's program of the Stop AIDS Project presents the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend barbecue and beer benefit Sunday, January 15 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Mix bar, 4086 18th Street in San Francisco |
| 1/12/06 | Agencies
move beyond meth-only focus |
The connection between gay men's crystal use and HIV infection rates has taken center stage in recent years, with health officials' attention and prevention dollars being funneled toward what many consider a new epidemic ravaging gay communities across the country. |
| 1/6/06 | Crystal
task force set to vote on plan |
A city panel charged with addressing San Francisco's crystal methamphetamine epidemic is expected to include providing treatment on demand and creating a marketing campaign alerting speed users that treatment does work among the recommendations it is set to approve next week. |
| 12/29/05 | Local 2005 roundup |
Robert McMullin was named executive director of the Stop AIDS Project. |
| 12/20/05 | Crystal persuasion
|
Speed kills. That was the hot new slogan in the Bay Area—in 1968. The year after the summer of love, legions of hippies shifted from pot and LSD to the ’60s version of crystal meth—and the human damage created by this migration was suddenly visible on sidewalks all over San Francisco. |
| 11/18/05 | New
efforts reboot men's online habits |
... could get the men he often saw online in the San Francisco chat rooms ... The Stop AIDS Project is hosting a community forum tonight (Thursday, November 17) called ... |
| 11/15/05 | Medical
Report |
... Crystal methamphetamine use among gay and bisexual men in San Francisco appears to ... 4,000 self-identified gay and bisexual men, the Stop AIDS Project said last ... |
| 11/12/05 | Washington
Post gets gay meth use backward |
... meth use among gay men in San Francisco appears to be falling. Based on interviews with more than 4,000 gay and bisexual men, the Stop AIDS Project said that ... |
| 11/4/05 | Interviews
indicate drop in meth use by gay men Experts say results should be backed by other research San Francisco Chronicle |
... by Stop AIDS between January and July of this year
in San Francisco said they ... In 2003, 18 percent of gay and bisexual men Stop AIDS interviewed said ... |
| 11/3/05 | Report:
San Francisco gays use less methgay.com |
The Stop AIDS Project on Thursday reported a "dramatic" drop in crystal meth use among gay and bisexual men in San Francisco. |