Crystal spreads AIDS; yoga juvenates...

Published scientific study confirms that
METH SPREADS HIV:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/16/BAGGPE8CN41.DTL

"SAN FRANCISCO :
Study confirms role of meth in HIV
Drug users three times more likely to acquire infection

Rachel Gordon,
[ San Francisco ] Chronicle
Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

People who use crystal methamphetamine are at least three times more likely to be infected with HIV than those who don't use the drug, according to a new government-sponsored study.

"Crystal meth use is the newest and most important threat to the HIV epidemic in the United States,'' Dr. James Dilley, director of the UC San Francisco AIDS Health Project, said in a prepared statement released Monday.
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First reported in the August issue of the medical journal AIDS, the study looked at 3,000 San Franciscans who received anonymous HIV tests in 2000 and 2001.

Of the 300 people in the study who voluntarily reported they used crystal meth, 6 percent had recently been infected with HIV. The infection rate was close to 8 percent for those who admitted to using crystal meth during sexual encounters.
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[ Comment by SUN:
This scientific study confirms what most SF gay men already know.
Now the tough job is to help people quit using meth, or at least reduce harm. ]
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Want to retain youthful vigor?
Try yoga!

YOGA pioneer, Ms. Magaña Baptiste, still limber at 84:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/15/DDGM9E772M1.DTL

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REDSTATERS whine about gay-marriage joke in cartoon:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/13/MNG7GE7ISP1.DTL

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OUTED soldiers:

http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=3976

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New strategy against dormant HIV:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/08/11/international/i123142D63.DTL&type=health

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SF: 20th birthday of mainly-queer Alexander Hamilton Post:


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/07/BAGU6E4D5C1.DTL

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NURSE-IN by Alameda County LACTIVISTS:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/05/BAGJIE3HF11.DTL

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CAL November propositions- anti-teen, anti-teacher, anti-union, etc.....

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/08/1759444.php

[ In Ahnold's "special erection", on 8 November 2005, California voters weigh several
bad ideas (props 74 thru 78); followed by two good ones (79 and 80). ]

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SF QUEER NEWS, each Thursday:

http://sfbaytimes.com/

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SF QUEER HISTORY,
circa 1971 - 2005:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1749365.php

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SF's possible future, in 2028:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/08/1757768.php

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"CITY OF LOVE" as SF Pride's theme for 2007

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/08/1758043.php

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NUDES in the news:

http://www.bayareanaturists.org/news

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FESTIVALS,
summer 2005,
northern California:


http://www.sfbg.com/39/32/cover_summer_festivals.html

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