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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 1 2 3 back to top
