News Events 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... Building Community Engagement for Syringe Services Programs SFDPH has a long history of working with the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). We formalized the relationship in 2010, when a Police Department Bulletin was developed between… More... The United States Opioid Epidemic Approximately 30,000 people died from opioid overdose in 2014, a dramatic increase since the 1990s. The reason for this epidemic is multi-faceted, including changes in the way medicine… More... Featuring Our Faculty: As San Francisco Goes, So Goes the State? By: Jacob Anderson-Minshall for Plus By now, many have heard about San Francisco’s public health miracle — a dramatic reduction in new HIV infections that put the county… More... Featuring Our Faculty: HIV Infections in SF Hit Low, but Drive Misses African Americans New HIV infections dropped to historic lows in San Francisco last year as the city amped up an aggressive campaign to essentially end the AIDS epidemic by 2020,… More... Featuring Our Faculty: Here’s Why HIV Rates aren’t Going Down for People of Color Once considered ground zero for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, San Francisco in recent years has been lauded as a success story for reducing transmission rates… More... PrEP for Her: Bringing Women into the HIV Prevention Conversation “PrEP for a lot of women, will be their entry point for access to care,” noted Martha Cameron, Director of Prevention at The Women’s Collective. “They are hearing… More... Featuring Our Faculty: Search for HIV’s Holy Grail: New Plan of Attack in SF Scientists have had profound success in treating and preventing HIV and AIDS, turning what was once an almost-certain death sentence into a condition now labeled a chronic illness.… More... Promoting PrEP Through Online Learning Collaborative The Project PrIDE Learning Community is here and ready to launch! The Project PrIDE online e-learning collaborative is a one-stop destination for providers to share knowledge about PrEP/PEP… More... Making Progress in Serving Transgender Communities We’re beginning to make progress, and one sign of it came over the wire : The federal Department of Health and Human Services Director of Infectious Diseases and… More... Reducing Substance Use and Associated Risk Behaviors with Pharmacotherapy Substance use is a modifiable risk factor for HIV transmission among men who have sex with men (MSM). Multiple studies have linked substance use to sexual risk behaviors… More... Featuring our Faculty: Why Aren’t More Women Taking PrEP? While the bulk of new HIV infections in the U.S. happen among men who have sex with men, women contribute a significant number of new infections every year; in… More... Past Events 02/20/19 Public Health Detailing Institute Wednesday, February 20: 7:00 am - 5:00 pm 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... News Announcements & Stories from our Community 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... Building Community Engagement for Syringe Services Programs SFDPH has a long history of working with the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). We formalized the relationship in 2010, when a Police Department Bulletin was developed between… More... The United States Opioid Epidemic Approximately 30,000 people died from opioid overdose in 2014, a dramatic increase since the 1990s. The reason for this epidemic is multi-faceted, including changes in the way medicine… More... Featuring Our Faculty: As San Francisco Goes, So Goes the State? By: Jacob Anderson-Minshall for Plus By now, many have heard about San Francisco’s public health miracle — a dramatic reduction in new HIV infections that put the county… More... Featuring Our Faculty: HIV Infections in SF Hit Low, but Drive Misses African Americans New HIV infections dropped to historic lows in San Francisco last year as the city amped up an aggressive campaign to essentially end the AIDS epidemic by 2020,… More... Featuring Our Faculty: Here’s Why HIV Rates aren’t Going Down for People of Color Once considered ground zero for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, San Francisco in recent years has been lauded as a success story for reducing transmission rates… More... PrEP for Her: Bringing Women into the HIV Prevention Conversation “PrEP for a lot of women, will be their entry point for access to care,” noted Martha Cameron, Director of Prevention at The Women’s Collective. “They are hearing… More... Featuring Our Faculty: Search for HIV’s Holy Grail: New Plan of Attack in SF Scientists have had profound success in treating and preventing HIV and AIDS, turning what was once an almost-certain death sentence into a condition now labeled a chronic illness.… More... Promoting PrEP Through Online Learning Collaborative The Project PrIDE Learning Community is here and ready to launch! The Project PrIDE online e-learning collaborative is a one-stop destination for providers to share knowledge about PrEP/PEP… More... Making Progress in Serving Transgender Communities We’re beginning to make progress, and one sign of it came over the wire : The federal Department of Health and Human Services Director of Infectious Diseases and… More... Reducing Substance Use and Associated Risk Behaviors with Pharmacotherapy Substance use is a modifiable risk factor for HIV transmission among men who have sex with men (MSM). Multiple studies have linked substance use to sexual risk behaviors… More... Featuring our Faculty: Why Aren’t More Women Taking PrEP? While the bulk of new HIV infections in the U.S. happen among men who have sex with men, women contribute a significant number of new infections every year; in… More... 1 2 3 4 5 back to top
