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This Game-Changing Pill Protects Against HIV. It Isn’t Reaching The Men Who Need It Most.

SFDPH’s very own Nicole Trainer, PrEP Health Educator in the Population Health Division’s Community Health Equity & Promotion branch was featured recently in an article by Carolina Moreno…

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PrEP Institute Comes To The Sunshine State

On Jan. 10, 2018, the Florida Department of Health took action to encourage more medical professionals in the state to prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) when it invited experts from San Francisco’s Department of Public Health (SFDPH) to conduct the Florida PrEP Institute—training about PrEP for state and local health professionals as well as community-based organizations.…

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CROI 2018: Helpful Links to High Impact HIV Prevention Presentations

We are pleased to share some selected presentations, posters, and recordings from the CROI 2018 conference. A fact sheet is located within our Resources page for your reference,…

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Test to Treat / RAPID in 5 questions

In addition to this blogpost, you can listen to Dr. Bacon’s presentation at CROI 2018 by following the link below. The Rapid ART Program Initiative for HIV Diagnoses…

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PrEP for Women: Engaging Family Planning Providers

Over the past few months, San Francisco based organizations HIVE (formerly BAPAC) and getSFcba, partnered with the National Clinical Training Center for Family Planning (NCTCFP) to help fill a gap –…

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World AIDS Day—Happy Birthday to me, a proud CBA Provider

I was born on December 1, 1967– the Summer of Love. My mother needed a blood transfusion since there was bleeding when my twin and I were delivered.…

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PrEP For Family Planning Providers: The Development of a Toolkit

The National Sexual Health Conference took place in Denver, Colorado this year. Given my work on PrEP access for women, I was excited that our abstract was accepted…

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Ask About PrEP

Featuring our Faculty – PrEP: A Dream Deferred

By: Benjamin Ryan, POZ The use of Truvada as PrEP—pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV—is going gangbusters. By the end of 2015, likely well over 80,000 U.S. residents had…

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Featuring our Faculty: Achieving zero HIV transmissions will require SF to address stigma, disparities

Featuring our Faculty: Achieving zero HIV transmissions will require SF to address stigma, disparities

By: Joshua Sabatini for The San Francisco Examiner  Having achieved significant reductions in new infections and effective treatment, San Francisco is a model city for combating HIV —…

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When We Rise ABC Miniseries

The Making of ABC’s Miniseries ‘When We Rise’ and the Real People Behind the Story

I have been asked by my CBA colleagues to share some of my experience participating in the making of ABC’s miniseries When We Rise, written by Dustin Lance…

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Adolescent with cityscape

Getting PrEP to Adolescents Before HIV Gets Them

Emtricitabine/tenofovir (aka FTC/TDF, or Truvada®) became an official part of the HIV prevention toolkit for adults (>18 years old) in the summer of 2012 (it seems so long…

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World AIDS Day 2016

Collaboration is Key for HIV Prevention

World AIDS Day every year is a reminder of the hard work that the HIV prevention community has undertaken and the work that still remains in reducing and…

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  1. 02/20/19 Public Health Detailing Institute

    Wednesday, February 20: 7:00 am - 5:00 pm
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    In order to scale up pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and rapid initiation of antiretrovirals after HIV diagnoses (RAPID), it is important that clinical providers are knowledgeable about both of… More...

    2. Past Events

  2. 03/14/18 Advancing PrEP in Family Planning Clinics: What will it take?

    Wednesday, March 14: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    While approximately 468,000 women in the US are eligible for PrEP, fewer than 5% have been prescribed it. Strategies to scale up this highly effective HIV prevention strategy… More...

  3. 10/25/18 PrEP and Youth: Opportunities for Increasing Equity

    Thursday, October 25: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
    October 25, 2018 – 9:00am – 10:00am PST / 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST Adolescents and young adults ages 13 to 24 still comprise a disproportionate number of new… More...

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This Game-Changing Pill Protects Against HIV. It Isn’t Reaching The Men Who Need It Most.

SFDPH’s very own Nicole Trainer, PrEP Health Educator in the Population Health Division’s Community Health Equity & Promotion branch was featured recently in an article by Carolina Moreno…

More...

PrEP Institute Comes To The Sunshine State

On Jan. 10, 2018, the Florida Department of Health took action to encourage more medical professionals in the state to prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) when it invited experts from San Francisco’s Department of Public Health (SFDPH) to conduct the Florida PrEP Institute—training about PrEP for state and local health professionals as well as community-based organizations.…

More...

CROI 2018: Helpful Links to High Impact HIV Prevention Presentations

We are pleased to share some selected presentations, posters, and recordings from the CROI 2018 conference. A fact sheet is located within our Resources page for your reference,…

More...

Test to Treat / RAPID in 5 questions

In addition to this blogpost, you can listen to Dr. Bacon’s presentation at CROI 2018 by following the link below. The Rapid ART Program Initiative for HIV Diagnoses…

More...

PrEP for Women: Engaging Family Planning Providers

Over the past few months, San Francisco based organizations HIVE (formerly BAPAC) and getSFcba, partnered with the National Clinical Training Center for Family Planning (NCTCFP) to help fill a gap –…

More...

World AIDS Day—Happy Birthday to me, a proud CBA Provider

I was born on December 1, 1967– the Summer of Love. My mother needed a blood transfusion since there was bleeding when my twin and I were delivered.…

More...

PrEP For Family Planning Providers: The Development of a Toolkit

The National Sexual Health Conference took place in Denver, Colorado this year. Given my work on PrEP access for women, I was excited that our abstract was accepted…

More...
Ask About PrEP

Featuring our Faculty – PrEP: A Dream Deferred

By: Benjamin Ryan, POZ The use of Truvada as PrEP—pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV—is going gangbusters. By the end of 2015, likely well over 80,000 U.S. residents had…

More...
Featuring our Faculty: Achieving zero HIV transmissions will require SF to address stigma, disparities

Featuring our Faculty: Achieving zero HIV transmissions will require SF to address stigma, disparities

By: Joshua Sabatini for The San Francisco Examiner  Having achieved significant reductions in new infections and effective treatment, San Francisco is a model city for combating HIV —…

More...
When We Rise ABC Miniseries

The Making of ABC’s Miniseries ‘When We Rise’ and the Real People Behind the Story

I have been asked by my CBA colleagues to share some of my experience participating in the making of ABC’s miniseries When We Rise, written by Dustin Lance…

More...
Adolescent with cityscape

Getting PrEP to Adolescents Before HIV Gets Them

Emtricitabine/tenofovir (aka FTC/TDF, or Truvada®) became an official part of the HIV prevention toolkit for adults (>18 years old) in the summer of 2012 (it seems so long…

More...
World AIDS Day 2016

Collaboration is Key for HIV Prevention

World AIDS Day every year is a reminder of the hard work that the HIV prevention community has undertaken and the work that still remains in reducing and…

More...
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