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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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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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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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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