Local People Make a Difference in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
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new treatment options have helped
to simplify treatment regimens for
Troy May
some patients to as few as two pills
taken once a day.
June marked the 25thanniversary
the disease. Through the years, he
they can visit, meet others living
of the Center for Disease Control's
worked hard to help those suffering
with the disease, be fed and attend
report of five cases of Pneumocysr/s
from the disease.
health education classes.
pneumonia in Los Angeles gay
Now, Gilead is taking the crusade
for simpler HiV treatment to the
next level. The company has joined
men, which is now known as the
Jerry has been working as a
Marianne became a registered nurse
fi rst official reporting of AIDS
volunteer at the Food Basket, which
in 1964, and over the years she
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), to
cases. In July of 1981, the Nsw York
provides food and supplies for
has witnessed a lot ofdeatii. She
create the world's first one-pill-a-day
Times published the world's fi rst
people living with AIDS. He started
started to work with the HIV/AIDS
treatment for AIDS, The new single
mainstream media story about the
there in 1998, v/hen he was a client.
community in 1989 as a volunteer
tablet regimen is a combination of
at the Center for Living with Dicing.
Viread, Emtriva and BMS' Sustiva
"rare cancer" in gay men. The HIV
forces with another drug company,
virus wasn't discovered by scientists
As a member of the HIV Planning
until 1983, and two years later, a
Council of Santa Clara County, he
being part of this sad thing in our
test for the virus was available. By
offered guidance on where to
community. At the time, I didn't
1986, 42,000 Americans, mostly gay
allocate $2.4 million in federal
know anyone who had HIV, but
Bischofberger notes: "Science is
men, had been diagnosed with AIDS
funding for medical care, pharmacy,
eventually, my life became full of
a long-term effort. Projects can
and about 27,000 had died. Since
case management, food, housing,
people with AIDS."
take 10 or more years. You can't
the early 1980s, there have been a
dental services, mental health,
countless number of people who
substance abuse and more.
and could receive FDA approval later
this year.
pay attention to where the wind is
Marianne has spent countless hours
blowing at one particular moment. If
at the bedside of people dicing
you believe in something, you have
In 2003, the county honored Jerry
from complications with AIDS. "I
to keep moving toward your goal."
with the David Burgess Award, which
consider the death bed an alter, a
have dedicated their lives to fighting
this disease.
"I really wanted to have a roll in
This section highlights a few local
is given each year foroutstanding
very scared place." After her many
3
Or.James
pioneers in the fi ght against AIDS.
contribution in service to work in the
years of dedication to the HIV/AIDS
a
W.Dilley
While we don't have enough space
fi eld of HIV and AIDS in Santa Clara
community, she doesn't want any
ir Is a Clinical
to recognize everyone, we at ON
County.
special recognition.
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Magazine want to thank the many
Professor of
i ■ Psychiatry, at
people who have made a difference
And during the last decade, Jerry
'Don't make me out to be better
in the fi ght against this brutal
has worked with the HIV positive
than anyone else. There were many
of California San Francisco and
disease.
incarcerated population, helping
people in the community who did
Executive Director of the UCSF
them with medical care and legal
just as much. 1 did this out of love. I
AIDS Health Project. He was one
issues.
did nothing extraordinary."
of the founders of the AIDS Health
Jerry Larsen,
52, moved to
■ • the University
Project (AHP) in 1984 and has been
■ San Francisco
Marianne
from Montana
Norbert
V Gallagher,
in 1983, right at
■ program
the beginning
, coordinator
of the AIDS epidemic. "In those fi rst
Ph.D., Is
V:
.V
of the Neil A,
years, I watched fi fty of my close
Christie Living
Executive Director since its inception.
Bischofberger,
U.T
y
AHP was born of the recognition that
the head of
the AIDS epidemic has a tremendous
research and
emotional and psychological
development at
impact both on individuals and the
personal friends pass from the
Center, 62, is well known in the San
biopharmaceutical company Gilead
disease," he said. Jerry has been
Jose community as a tireless worker
Sciences, based in Foster City. In
HIV positive for 21 years, surviving
in the HIV/AIDS community. The
this role, Bischofberger leads a team
Dr. Dilley was one of many staff
through the black cloud of a death
Living Center is a safe place for those
of research and clinical scientists
members at San Francisco General
when there were few treatments for
living with the disease, a place where
who are working to develop
Hospital in the 1980s that watched
20 outnowmag.com ;; JULY 2006 :: ON
community.
anxiously as young gay men were admitted with a
TRAVEL AS YOU
ARE
fearsome and totally unknown disease.They stood
by uncertainly as patients died within a few days
Ken Neibaur
of admission.
LGBT TRAVEL EXPERT
• Tours
• CRUISES
Dr. Dilley has published three books,serves on
• Independent
the editorial boards of two leading AIDS-related
Jim Beall,54, is on the
academic journals, and has served on boards to
Santa Clara County
advise the state, city, and national professional
Board of Supervisors.
organizations about HIV and mental health.
He was on the San
• Groups
• Exotic
CARDOZA-BUNGEY
T
R
AV
E
L
Jose City Council in
650-473-8502
eMail ken@cardoza.com
In June 2005, Dr. Dilley was selected as the faculty
1980, right before HIV/
recipient of the UCS Chancellor's Award for Gay
Lesbian Bisexual and/orTransgender Leadership.
In April 2005, he received the Richard L, Schlegel
AIDS emerged in the
National Legion of Honor Visionary Leader Award
was successful with getting approval for $375,000
in getting funding for the Neil A. Christie Living
from American University in Washington, DC for
to fund more HIV testing sites in the county. This
Center, which opened in 2002. ON
local gay community. He's been an advocate for
was done at a time when the county doesn't have
funding to fight the disease for years. In June, he
an extra dime to spare. Beall was also instrumental
his contributions to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender communities in their fight against HIV
and AIDS.
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BAYLANDS FRONTRUNNERS
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Dr. Robert Shafer, associate
professor of medicine
i - and an AIDS specialist at
, Stanford University School
of Medicine, manages the
Stanford HIV Drug Resistance
Database, which he created in 1998. it is a unique
resource that provides unfettered public access to
information about drug resistance.
PALO ALTO
BAYLANDS
HIV drug resistance data is critical to the design
of new AIDS drugs, for managing people with
HIV and for surveillance purposes. The database,
which is publicly available, stores and analyzes
information about drug resistance and makes it
RACESTARTSAT
available to a broad community of physicians and
clinicians. It helps clinician/scientists identify gaps
9:00 AH
in drug resistance knowledge that could be filled
by retrospective or prospective studies.
A BENEFIT FOR:
The database is constantly updated and contains
information from more than 600 references,
including data on more than 15,000 anonymous
individuals with well-characterized treatment
histories. The database also sequence analysis
programs that are run more than 20,000 times a
month, as well as a Web service that is used by
more than 30 institutions. The large number of
literature citations and frequent references to the
database by clinicians and scientists suggest it has
become a critical resource that helps bridge the
gap between published HIV drug resistance data
and drug resistance testing in clinical settings.
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K
I.,,
I-
3
'W=^
i! tj'
jf**' ^-^.i
i,'
^.X
new,improved therapies for the
"rvn
g
A
^
i
(?ȣT
■y fe"-'*
treatment of HIV.
H \C
Under the leadership of
UX
5
iJl
A s
n 5!
31
r
N h
si *1
s L
Bischofberger, Gilead has
ti
launched three new once-daily HIV
medications in a remarkably short
-Si
•V!
5
ri
2 i
4 'i h
Z.
iA>.
t
a
a
iA
period of time, including. These
<>.
ten
t)
new treatment options have helped
to simplify treatment regimens for
Troy May
some patients to as few as two pills
taken once a day.
June marked the 25thanniversary
the disease. Through the years, he
they can visit, meet others living
of the Center for Disease Control's
worked hard to help those suffering
with the disease, be fed and attend
report of five cases of Pneumocysr/s
from the disease.
health education classes.
pneumonia in Los Angeles gay
Now, Gilead is taking the crusade
for simpler HiV treatment to the
next level. The company has joined
men, which is now known as the
Jerry has been working as a
Marianne became a registered nurse
fi rst official reporting of AIDS
volunteer at the Food Basket, which
in 1964, and over the years she
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), to
cases. In July of 1981, the Nsw York
provides food and supplies for
has witnessed a lot ofdeatii. She
create the world's first one-pill-a-day
Times published the world's fi rst
people living with AIDS. He started
started to work with the HIV/AIDS
treatment for AIDS, The new single
mainstream media story about the
there in 1998, v/hen he was a client.
community in 1989 as a volunteer
tablet regimen is a combination of
at the Center for Living with Dicing.
Viread, Emtriva and BMS' Sustiva
"rare cancer" in gay men. The HIV
forces with another drug company,
virus wasn't discovered by scientists
As a member of the HIV Planning
until 1983, and two years later, a
Council of Santa Clara County, he
being part of this sad thing in our
test for the virus was available. By
offered guidance on where to
community. At the time, I didn't
1986, 42,000 Americans, mostly gay
allocate $2.4 million in federal
know anyone who had HIV, but
Bischofberger notes: "Science is
men, had been diagnosed with AIDS
funding for medical care, pharmacy,
eventually, my life became full of
a long-term effort. Projects can
and about 27,000 had died. Since
case management, food, housing,
people with AIDS."
take 10 or more years. You can't
the early 1980s, there have been a
dental services, mental health,
countless number of people who
substance abuse and more.
and could receive FDA approval later
this year.
pay attention to where the wind is
Marianne has spent countless hours
blowing at one particular moment. If
at the bedside of people dicing
you believe in something, you have
In 2003, the county honored Jerry
from complications with AIDS. "I
to keep moving toward your goal."
with the David Burgess Award, which
consider the death bed an alter, a
have dedicated their lives to fighting
this disease.
"I really wanted to have a roll in
This section highlights a few local
is given each year foroutstanding
very scared place." After her many
3
Or.James
pioneers in the fi ght against AIDS.
contribution in service to work in the
years of dedication to the HIV/AIDS
a
W.Dilley
While we don't have enough space
fi eld of HIV and AIDS in Santa Clara
community, she doesn't want any
ir Is a Clinical
to recognize everyone, we at ON
County.
special recognition.
i
Magazine want to thank the many
Professor of
i ■ Psychiatry, at
people who have made a difference
And during the last decade, Jerry
'Don't make me out to be better
in the fi ght against this brutal
has worked with the HIV positive
than anyone else. There were many
of California San Francisco and
disease.
incarcerated population, helping
people in the community who did
Executive Director of the UCSF
them with medical care and legal
just as much. 1 did this out of love. I
AIDS Health Project. He was one
issues.
did nothing extraordinary."
of the founders of the AIDS Health
Jerry Larsen,
52, moved to
■ • the University
Project (AHP) in 1984 and has been
■ San Francisco
Marianne
from Montana
Norbert
V Gallagher,
in 1983, right at
■ program
the beginning
, coordinator
of the AIDS epidemic. "In those fi rst
Ph.D., Is
V:
.V
of the Neil A,
years, I watched fi fty of my close
Christie Living
Executive Director since its inception.
Bischofberger,
U.T
y
AHP was born of the recognition that
the head of
the AIDS epidemic has a tremendous
research and
emotional and psychological
development at
impact both on individuals and the
personal friends pass from the
Center, 62, is well known in the San
biopharmaceutical company Gilead
disease," he said. Jerry has been
Jose community as a tireless worker
Sciences, based in Foster City. In
HIV positive for 21 years, surviving
in the HIV/AIDS community. The
this role, Bischofberger leads a team
Dr. Dilley was one of many staff
through the black cloud of a death
Living Center is a safe place for those
of research and clinical scientists
members at San Francisco General
when there were few treatments for
living with the disease, a place where
who are working to develop
Hospital in the 1980s that watched
20 outnowmag.com ;; JULY 2006 :: ON
community.
anxiously as young gay men were admitted with a
TRAVEL AS YOU
ARE
fearsome and totally unknown disease.They stood
by uncertainly as patients died within a few days
Ken Neibaur
of admission.
LGBT TRAVEL EXPERT
• Tours
• CRUISES
Dr. Dilley has published three books,serves on
• Independent
the editorial boards of two leading AIDS-related
Jim Beall,54, is on the
academic journals, and has served on boards to
Santa Clara County
advise the state, city, and national professional
Board of Supervisors.
organizations about HIV and mental health.
He was on the San
• Groups
• Exotic
CARDOZA-BUNGEY
T
R
AV
E
L
Jose City Council in
650-473-8502
eMail ken@cardoza.com
In June 2005, Dr. Dilley was selected as the faculty
1980, right before HIV/
recipient of the UCS Chancellor's Award for Gay
Lesbian Bisexual and/orTransgender Leadership.
In April 2005, he received the Richard L, Schlegel
AIDS emerged in the
National Legion of Honor Visionary Leader Award
was successful with getting approval for $375,000
in getting funding for the Neil A. Christie Living
from American University in Washington, DC for
to fund more HIV testing sites in the county. This
Center, which opened in 2002. ON
local gay community. He's been an advocate for
was done at a time when the county doesn't have
funding to fight the disease for years. In June, he
an extra dime to spare. Beall was also instrumental
his contributions to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender communities in their fight against HIV
and AIDS.
s*
BAYLANDS FRONTRUNNERS
gTH ANNUAL
IOK(tSKRUH
& TIMED WALK
SEPTEMBER 0
ATTEJE
Dr. Robert Shafer, associate
professor of medicine
i - and an AIDS specialist at
, Stanford University School
of Medicine, manages the
Stanford HIV Drug Resistance
Database, which he created in 1998. it is a unique
resource that provides unfettered public access to
information about drug resistance.
PALO ALTO
BAYLANDS
HIV drug resistance data is critical to the design
of new AIDS drugs, for managing people with
HIV and for surveillance purposes. The database,
which is publicly available, stores and analyzes
information about drug resistance and makes it
RACESTARTSAT
available to a broad community of physicians and
clinicians. It helps clinician/scientists identify gaps
9:00 AH
in drug resistance knowledge that could be filled
by retrospective or prospective studies.
A BENEFIT FOR:
The database is constantly updated and contains
information from more than 600 references,
including data on more than 15,000 anonymous
individuals with well-characterized treatment
histories. The database also sequence analysis
programs that are run more than 20,000 times a
month, as well as a Web service that is used by
more than 30 institutions. The large number of
literature citations and frequent references to the
database by clinicians and scientists suggest it has
become a critical resource that helps bridge the
gap between published HIV drug resistance data
and drug resistance testing in clinical settings.
RUN FOR
(OMMUHIIY
FREE AT LAST
OUTLET
PFLAG
Generous Sponsors: ©OL©: ARVADA DARNELL • VIOLE MCMAHON
SILVER; COMERICA BANK • DESIGNER HILL • DEXTER ACCOUN
TANCY • FULLBLOOM BAKING CO. • OUTNOW AAAGAZINE
WWW.BAYLANDS.ORG
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ON Magazine Thanking the many people who have made a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS
Initiative
Collection
James T. Beall, Jr.
Content Type
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Resource Type
Document
Date
11/2006
District
District 4
Language
English
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