news archive
2008
Study Offers Insights About Development of the Human Immune System PDF (December 4, 2008)
New Hope for HIV Treatment: Cells Exhausted from Fighting HIV Infection can be Revitalized PDF (November 10, 2008)
Study Examines Repeated Exposure to HIV in Treatment-Suppressed HIV Patients PDF (October 23, 2008)
Researchers Urge Integrating TB Into HIV Care PDF (July 22, 2008)
What Works to Prevent HIV Among Heterosexual African-Americans? PDF (June 30, 2008)
Video Doc Helps HIV-Positive Patients Reduce Risky Behaviors PDF (April 22, 2008)
2007
NIH Doubles Support for Vital HIV/AIDS Research Center PDF (November 1, 2007)
NIH Grant Supports UCSF Research Exploring Early HIV Infection
PDF
(October 8, 2007)
Ban of Use of Sperm from HIV-Positive Men
under Review: Bill Pending to Let Fertility Clinics Use "Washed" Specimens
By Greg Lucas, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bureau
(March 27, 2007)
Related story (March 29, 2007)
Bill Would Let Men with HIV Use Reproduction
Techniques: Lawmaker Wants to Lift Ban on Using Fertility Services
By Mike Zapler, San Jose Mercury News, Sacramento Bureau
(March 6, 2007)
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S.F. Scientists Find Way to Halt Malaria in Kids
By Sabin Russell, San Francisco Chronicle
(February 28, 2007)
Related story by Lawrence Altman in the New
York Times (March 1, 2007)
Emerging Drugs Show Promise Against HIV PDF
By Marilyn Chase and Jacob Goldstein, Wall Street Journal
(February 28, 2007)
Research Supports Medicinal Marijuana
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post
(February 13, 2007)
UCSF news release (February 12, 2007)
Hopes for an AIDS Cure Remain Alive
By E.J. Mundell, Wahington Post HealthDay
(January 4, 2007)
AIDS Drug Offers Hope, but Too Late for One Man
By James Ricci, Los Angeles Times
(January 2, 2007)
2006
UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies Marks 20 Years (November 2, 2006)
What We Can Learn from the Elite Controllers
By Gail Dutton, The Scientist
(November 2006)
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Gladstone Investigators Identify a New Protective Action for the Powerful Anti-HIV Factor APOBEC3G PDF (October 2, 2006)
UCSF Scientists Discuss Impact of Circumcision, Cervical Protection on Spread of AIDS (August 17, 2006)
As AIDS Drugs Fail Thousands, "Salvage" Is Key PDF
By Marilyn Chase, Wall Street Journal (May 3, 2006)
By James Ricci, Los Angeles Times (January 19, 2006)
Viral "Fitness" Explains Different Resistance Patterns to AIDS Drugs PDF (January 10, 2006)
2005
Women’s Global Health Scientist Receives 2004 Presidential Early Career Award (June 13, 2005)
Gladstone Investigators Discover How Resting T Cells Avoid HIV Infection—Finding Could Lead to New Therapeutic Strategies (April 13, 2005)
Teens Believe Oral Sex Is Safer, More Acceptable to Peers (April 4, 2005)
UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine Rank among Nation's Best in Annual Survey; First in AIDS Medicine (April 1, 2005)
"Women, Poverty, and HIV" is Focus of UCSF International Women's Day Briefing on March 8th (March 7, 2005)
2004
Gladstone Institutes Dedicates Mission Bay Research Building (December 6, 2004)
UCSF ARI World AIDS Day Concert on December 1 Features Gay Men's Chorus and Remembrance, Hope, and Thanks (November 29, 2004)
UCSF Event on December 14 Supports HIV/AIDS Treatment for Ugandans (November 24, 2004)
UCSF Receives $21 Million NIH Contract for Sexually Transmitted Infection Research (November 4, 2004)
ARI Leader among Six UCSF Faculty Elected to Institute of Medicine (October 18, 2004)
New Internet Resource Facilitates International HIV/AIDS Healthcare Provider Training (October 18, 2004)
Public Invited to Day in the Park with UCSF Positive Health on October 15 (October 6, 2004)
Gladstone Investigator Mike McCune Wins Prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award (September 29, 2004)
The Future of HIV Therapeutics Is Brightening, According to Gladstone Institutes Director (August 27, 2004)
A Model for Treatment (August 11, 2004, San Francisco Chronicle editorial)
Aging HIV Patients May Be at Risk for Dementia, Study Shows (July 20, 2004)
HIV Clinician Fatalism Hinders "Prevention for Positives" Counseling (July 15, 2004)
Gladstone Study Finds No Evidence of Superinfection among Highly Exposed HIV+ Couples (July 14, 2004)
Mobile HIV Testing Program Removes Barriers to Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa (July 14, 2004)
Africans Take Anti-HIV Meds at a Higher Rate than Many Anticipated (July 13, 2004)
Some HIV Patients Treated During Early Infection Test Negative (July 12, 2004)
Young Gay Men Experience High Rates of Anti-gay Violence and Harassment (June 29, 2004)
"Women, Children, and HIV" Educational CD-ROM to Be Distributed at International AIDS Conference (June 25, 2004)
Media Briefing on Wednesday, June 23, Will Preview XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok (June 16, 2004)
Newsom Names Long-Time Community Advocate Jeff Sheehy as His AIDS Advisor (June 10, 2004) PDF
Biotechnology Essential to Medical Progress (June 8, 2004, San Francisco Chronicle editorial by Dr. Jay A. Levy) PDF
Key Immune System Cell Reduces Secretion of Defense Protein in HIV-Associated Dementia Patients (May 18, 2004)
HIV Intersects with Reproductive Biology at UCSF Seminar (May 20, 2004)
Levy Honored with 2004 Abbott Laboratories Award in Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology (April 23, 2004) PDF
Most SF HIV-Infected Urban Poor Have Hepatitis C; Few Treated for It (April 2, 2004)
UCSF School of Medicine Ranks among Nation's Best in Annual Survey; First in AIDS Medicine (April 2, 2004)
HIV-Infected Have Thicker Cartoid Artery Wall: Predictor of Heart Attack and Stroke (March 18, 2004)
"Women, Poverty and the Global AIDS Epidemic" Is Focus of International Women's Day Briefing on March 8th (March 2, 2004)
African Girls Taught to Say No to "Sugar Daddies"
(February 25, 2004, SF Chronicle article)
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New UCSF AIDS Research Institute Director Appointed (February 5, 2004)
UCSF Launches Comprehensive HIV Website in South Africa (February 2, 2004)
Researchers Say Change in Social Policies Could Help Reduce High Rate of Depression in Men Who Have Sex with Men (February 1, 2004)
Black Tar Heroin Use Explains Lower HIV Levels among Injection Drug Users in the Western U.S. (January 27, 2004)