When Timothy Brown, the only person in the world to be functionally cured of HIV, was first offered the chance for the cure in 2006, he turned it down flat.

A standing-room only audience packed Carr Auditorium at San Francisco General Hospital on Tuesday, April 13, to hear about the city's new policy recommending treatment for all people diagnosed with HIV regardless of CD4 T-cell count.

San Francisco health officials have traced several cases of tuberculosis to patrons of Castro gay bars, with one of the people infected a bartender in the area. The discovery has prompted them to ask 140 employees of businesses in the gay neighborhood who may have been exposed to an active case of TB to get screened for the potentially deadly disease.

Twenty-five years ago, there was no drug treatment available for AIDS, and the cause wasn’t even known. Dr. Diane Havlir started working at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in the early 1980s, just after she had finished medical school.

A report by the state Department of Public Health (DPH) finds efforts at HIV prevention in Massachusetts have made little headway among gay and bisexual men in the last several years.

The Gay Games is trying to accommodate those HIV+ athletes who have to take special medications by expanding and redefining drug tests.

A San Francisco dental clinic whose clients include low-income people living with HIV and AIDS will close June 30, in a climate where patients’ prospects of finding other means of dental care appears tenuous.

Names-based reporting of HIV diagnoses totaled 52,878 in the United States in 2006, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on March 24.

The number of new cases of primary and secondary syphilis nationwide increased to 11,181 in 2007, a 12 percent increase over the previous year, according to preliminary data. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the data at a March 12 news conference at the 2008 National STD Prevention Conference in Chicago.

In a move that could affect the lives of transgender people, people living with HIV and AIDS, drug addicts, mental health clients, and homeless people, the San Francisco Health Commission voted 4-3 Tuesday, March 4 to approve about $19 million in mid-year cuts and decreases to the fiscal year 2008-09 budget from the city public health department.

The federal Food and Drug Administration is adopting a new rule that will require warning labels on contraceptive products that contain the spermicide nonoxynol-9 but the federal agency is delaying the establishment of a similar rule on condoms containing N-9.

The federal Food and Drug Administration is adopting a new rule that will require warning labels on contraceptive products that contain the spermicide nonoxynol-9 but the federal agency is delaying the establishment of a similar rule on condoms containing N-9.

San Francisco health officials continue to see rates of sexually transmitted diseases drop, a significant difference from most other parts of the state and country where STDs remain on a six-year-long rise.