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Article: San Francisco sees drop in HIV infections in gay men
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- International Herald Tribune
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- August 19, 2005
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Dean E. Murphy
International Herald Tribune
08-19-2005
The conversation over tossed salad, bread and iced tea was about dating. Mostly predictable stuff, like where to meet guys and the hottest men-seeking-men Web sites.But the gathering last week at a coffee shop in the largely gay Castro district was not a casual pickup session. The dozen or so men were infected with the virus that causes AIDS, and the talk was of ''responsible sex,'' not through condoms, necessarily, but through choosing sex partners who are already infected.''I don't think I could sleep at night if I knew I had infected another human being,'' said one of the men, Don Stewart, who tested positive for HIV in 2000.The ...