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SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER A-6 Friday, June 19, 1992 F. staly sites DUD gemirerg ADS sisraval I BALBOA 31 I TURK JL-Wfe' 1 FULT0N MM JUDAH I o- 1 ri 3othst1C er-J sjT P0RTAL TgdQJ dfofyj New or revised JV owl service VV 4" Owl service unchanged Vv' YZ I owl service 1 discontinued hfy 1 Timed transfer yft 'Oty All routes operate half-hourly i llliMHM June fest highlights family values Cultural pride dominates events in S.F., Oakland By Donna Birch OF THE EXAMINER STAFF Unity, cultural pride and family values are the prevailing themes behind two of five Bay Area June-teenth celebrations this weekend no thanks to Dan Quayle. Organizers of Oakland's and San Francisco's Juneteenth a holiday first celebrated by African Americans from the Southwest commemorating their emancipation from slavery chose their themes long before the vice president blasted sitcom mom Murphy Brown for lacking "family values." "(Quayle) took a real issue and played with it," said Nashid Ahmad, program coordinator for San Francisco's 5th Annual Juneteenth Festival. "We felt there was a great need to emphasize the value of families with the problems facing our young people." Ahmad and Samee Roberts," special-events coordinator for Oakland's Department of Parks and Recreation, said they wanted to acknowledge the contributions of the extended family grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins as well. Quayle's definition of a family consists of "the nuclear family with two-point-something kids and a station wagon," Roberts said.

"That's not always the case in the 90s." Juneteenth unfamiliar to many, including African Americans marks June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gordon Granger of the Union military landed at the port of Galveston, delivering the news of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. It was the first time Texas slaves learned of their liberation. "The Emancipation Proclamation stipulated that only certain areas were designated free," Ahmad said. "(The Texas military) felt it didnt apply to them." EXAMINER GRAPHICS Men live longer but discrepancy disappears when women obtain anti-viral drugs By Lisa M.

Krieger EXAMINER MEDICAL WRITER San Francisco women with AIDS do not survive as long as men with the disease, according to a new study by San Francisco AIDS experts. But the gender gap disappears when women are treated with the same anti-viral drugs as men suggesting that it is lack of treatment, and not gender itself, that is deadly. "There is a gender gap with AIDS survival," says George Lemp of The City's Department of Health's AIDS Office. "It confirms that women are not getting tested, monitored and treated as they should." "Women have an intrinsic ability to survive this disease equal to men," agrees Diana Kuderna, of the Oakland-based women's AIDS group WORLD. "But there is lack of information and lack of access to care." The study, published in Friday's Journal of Infectious Disease, found that the average life span of women with AIDS was 3'a months shorter than that of men: 11.1 months vs.

14.6 months. Only 47.7 percent of women with AIDS are surviving after one year, compared with 56.1 percent of men, the report found. The study did not measure T- cell counts, so it was impossible to tell whether women tend to be sicker than men when first diagnosed, and thus don't survive as long. Importantly, it found that when men and women were treated with anti-viral drugs such as AZT and DDI, an equal proportion 70 percent of both sexes survives one year. Researchers analyzed data for 139 women and 7,045 men who were reported with AIDS in San Francisco between July 1981 and December 1990.

The shorter survival span for women also may be a result of other factors, such as older age and other competing health risks, the study concluded. Compared with men, women with AIDS were more likely to be older and to have acquired the virus through blood transfusion during treatment for another disease. AIDS is increasingly a woman's disease. In 1987, HIV was the eighth-leading cause of death among women of reproductive age in the U.S.; in 1990, it was projected that by 1991, HIV would be one of the five leading causes of death among these women. Yet in San Francisco, where men account for 98.4 percent of AIDS cases, AIDS in women often escapes detection.

"We know plenty of women who have gone to find out what's wrong with them sometimes for three years or more and everybody 2 Miles Lincoln actually drafted the proclamation in 1862, but the South, which had declared its independence from the federal government, of course refused to recognize the order. The Civil War sparked by the South's indepen dence bid ended April 2, 1865. Tex- as slaves learned of their freedom 78 days later, on June 19, 1865. The origin of the name "Juneteenth" is said to be a blending of the words "June" and "Nineteenth." Others say the holiday earned the name Juneteenth be- cause different communities in the Southwest states celebrated the holiday on different days, thus giving rise to the general term Juneteenth. San Francisco kicked off the largest of the five celebrations Thursday with a carnival that runs -through Friday.

Celebrations continue into the weekend with a festival that takes place Saturday and Sunday from noon until 7:30 p.m. at the Civic Center, between McAllister and Polk streets. says, We don't know what it could said Kuderna. The findings don't mean that care for women doesn't exist, said Lemp. He noted that women aren't tested as often for HIV; their health problems arent linked to AIDS; or their illness is discovered too late for treatment to be helpful.

"They may not be aware that they are HIV-infected," said Lemp. "If they're aware, they may not be monitored or come in early enough for treatment. It's important to know when your T-cells drop to 200, so you can get on preventive treatment for pneumonia, and not end up in the hospital emergency room. "Or the clinic may not recognize that their problems are HW-relat-ed," he added. "It could be a combination of all of these things." Vaccine for HIV Ai promise Chimps used in experiment, but more work needed before testing is done on humans ByPaulRecer ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON An experimental vaccine has proved in laboratory tests on chimps that it can immunize against HIV-infected blood cells, a common pathway for spread of AIDS among intravenous drug users.

Simians inoculated with the vaccine remained free of HW infection for up to a year after they were injected with contaminated blood, said Patricia Fultz of the University of Alabama in Birmingham. "This proves we're on the right track," she said. The research involved three chimpanzees inoculated with a vaccine and then injected with HF7-infected blood cells. After inoculation, all three chimps were injected with doses of blood cells from a chimp infected with the virus, which causes AIDS. Researchers then tested the three chimps periodically to see whether they developed an HIV infection.

One chimp died of heart failure, not associated with HIV, after seven months, said Fultz. Tissue samples taken from this chimp were cultured for six weeks, and there was no evidence of viral infection, she said. The other two chimps were found to be immune to the virus for a full 12 months. "This tells us that the vaccine candidates with which we are working have the potential to protect against the virus and that we don't need to revise our vaccine at this point or try additional types," said Fultz. She said that using infected blood cells was a good test for what happened when drug users shared dirty needles.

Patients infected with HP7 typically leave a residue of infected blood in a needle. A person sharing such an unsterilized needle then could put these infected blood cells into his own bloodstream, possibly leading to an HIV infection. Fultz said the vaccine also needed to be tested to see whether it prevented sexual transmission of HIV. Although the new test has the promise of an AIDS vaccine, Fultz said that much more work needed to be done before it could be tested in humans. shows night-owl Saturday bus service to San Francisco State University and 19th Avenue.

Muni planner Peter Straus said that while the former owl service had radiated from the downtown area, the new would provide better crosstown connections. Part of the circular 91 line, for instance, will link the Sunset and Richmond districts. And there will be no more owl service along the line between the Ferry Building and 30th and Church streets. Instead, paralleling the Church Street leg of that route, passengers will find owl buses on Castro Street plying the north-south portion of the 24-Divisadero line. Gone also will be the 31-Balboa owl service, which on average had carried only two passengers per hour.

Nothing will happen to the most popular owl lines, such as the 38-Geary and the 14-Mission, which carry about 1,000 people a night. A new feature of the owls will be timed transfers. At select points such as Mission and Cortland streets, Mission and 16th streets, Geary Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue, Geary and Park Presidio, Ulloa Street and West Portal Avenue buses that cross paths will do so at about the same time to minimize the wait for passengers transferring. Saturday also will mark a change in service on the 12-Folsom and 83-Pacific bus lines, Straus said. The 83 will be discontinued west of Van Ness Avenue, with service there to be covered on weekdays only by an extension of the 12-Folsom from the downtown area.

There will be no more weeknight and weekend service west of Van Ness by buses of either line. ft Hi! New Muni service du ByWaltGibbs OF THE EXAMINER STAFF i San Francisco night owls who rely on the Muni have a major adjustment to make. Starting in the wee hours Saturday, the Muni's "owl" service will be rearranged and consolidated to better serve The City's nighttime hot spots, according to General Manager Johnny B. Stein. The same number of buses 27 will prowl the streets from 1 a.m.

to 5 a.m. seven days a week. But while some of the owl service had been hourly, all the buses will now come at half-hour intervals. The 15-Third, 45-Union and K-Ingleside owl lines have been spliced into a "Great Circle Route" labeled the 91 line, which for the first time also will bring overnight 9UBST TO TOCKf Bath Carnef 6" Wide pw. Alii Won't mildew.

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