In this episode, Foundation CEO Mark Cloutier reflects on the forward progress of the Foundation in 2009 and talks about what’s ahead for 2010. Mark speaks to the impacts of the economic downturn in California, the growing evidence around the efficacy of "test and treat" programs and reaching more people with opt-out testing.
December 16, 2009
2010: The Road Ahead
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August 20, 2009
SFAF.org Podcast #61 - Detecting Acute HIV Infections Among Gay Men in San Francisco
In this episode, Steve Gibson, director of Magnet, the Foundation's gay men's health center in the Castro, discusses his upcoming presentation at the 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference. Magnet is on the forefront of RNA testing for HIV in a community setting, helping locate cases of acute HIV infection among gay men in San Francisco and moving the Foundation closer to a goal of having every San Francisco resident between the ages of 13 and 65 know their current HIV status by 2015. Steve shares some of the information that this unique perspective is revealing.
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August 06, 2009
SFAF.org Podcast #60 - California HIV Budget Cuts: Not a Done Deal
While signing the state budget, Governor Schwarzenegger used his line-item veto power to slash an additional $52 million in funding for HIV/AIDS programs. That cut, which eliminates all state support for HIV testing, prevention and care, came on top of the more than $30 million already agreed to by the Legislature in order to balance the budget. In this episode, Courtney Mulhern-Pearson – the Foundation’s Legislative and Policy Associate – gives us an update on the governor's last-minute HIV budget cuts and efforts underway to reverse them.
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May 21, 2009
SFAF.org Podcast #56 - Governor's Budget Cuts HIV Prevention Funds
In this episode, a discussion about the revised California state budget with Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, the Foundation's Legislative and Policy Associate. Governor Schwarzenegger's current buget revision cuts all state funding for HIV prevention and education. Find out what effects this may have and what can be done to help restore the funding.
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December 24, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #46 - Mark Cloutier on Obama and a National AIDS Strategy
In this episode, a discussion with Mark Cloutier, the Foundation's Chief Executive Officer. We'll take a look ahead and find out what effects the incoming Obama administration may have on the fight against HIV/AIDS here in the United States in 2009.
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December 11, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #45 - Milk's legacy: Gay activism and HIV/AIDS
Harvey Milk stands proudly over the gay community as a spiritual leader and now, literally, in a poster from the new film "Milk" rising four stories above Castro Street. In this episode, we talk about the activism Harvey Milk and others cultivated with Kevin Roe, Associate Director of Magnet, the Foundation's gay men's community health center in the Castro. A hub for the gay rights movement in the 1970s and community mobilization for the fight against HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, the Castro has again been the center of demonstrations against the passage of Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in California.
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November 17, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #44 - Dr. Judith Auerbach on the Obama administration and HIV/AIDS
In this episode of our bi-weekly podcast, Dr. Judith Auerbach, the Foundation's Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy, discusses how the Obama administration's HIV/AIDS plan will impact the fight against HIV/AIDS. President-elect Obama campaigned on a promise of implementing a National AIDS Strategy and Dr. Auerbach explains the effect this could have on HIV science and policy.
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September 18, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #40 - HIV and the election: a legislative update with Ernest Hopkins
In this episode, Ernest Hopkins, the Foundation's Director of Federal Affairs, gives an update on the progress of current HIV-related legislation in Washington. With the elections less than two months away, Ernest gives an outline of the key HIV policy differences between the Republican and Democratic party platforms and an update on the progress of the federal needle exchange bill.
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August 07, 2008
SFAF.org IAC Podcast - Congresswoman Barbara Lee discuses a way forward in HIV prevention in the U.S. and around the world
In this episode of the SFAF.org IAC podcast, recorded at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Erik Ireland sits down with Congresswoman Barbara Lee, serving as an active participant in the Conference for the fifth consecutive year. Representative Lee gives her candid appraisal of recent legislative successes like the reauthorized President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and calls out where the new bill falls short. She explains why family planning is a vital part of HIV prevention and offers a her solution to years of wasted money on abstinence-only--until-marriage education. The conversation concludes with a few thoughts about the long history of HIV/AIDS advocacy in the Bay Area.
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August 05, 2008
SFAF.org IAC Podcast - Successful sex education in Latin America. Can we make it work in the US?
In this episode of the SFAF.org IAC podcast, recorded at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Erik Ireland speaks with one of the Foundation's allies in the ongoing battle against abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. Bill Smith, Vice President for Public Policy at SIECUS, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, discusses a model for comprehensive sex education in Mexico and provides an update on the evidence that supports comprehensive sex education in the U.S. and the growing number of states that reject federal monies earmarked for abstinence-only programs.
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March 20, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #29 - Study shows San Francisco MSM syphilis rates declining
Dr. Kyle Bernstein, Chief of Epidemiology, Surveillance and Research for STD Prevention and Control Services at the San Francisco Department of Health, discusses a recent preliminary report showing a decline in the rate of syphilis transmission among men who have sex with men in San Francisco. As syphilis rates continue to climb in many other US cities, find out what San Francisco is doing to achieve these declining rates.
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February 07, 2008
SFAF Podcast #26 - California budget cuts and pending HIV legislation: what's at stake?
In this episode, Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, Policy Analyst for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, outlines the possible effects of proposed California state budget cuts and pending state HIV legislation. Faced with a structural deficit of more than 14 billion dollars, Governor Schwarzenegger has presented a state budget with ten percent cuts across the board.
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January 23, 2008
SFAF Podcast #25 - Dr. Lisa Sterman on MRSA staph infection in the SF gay community
In this episode, Dr. Lisa Sterman discusses MRSA staph infection in the San Francisco gay community. Though MRSA has been around for years, a recent study in the journal The Annals of Internal Medicine has framed it in a new light. What should everyone know about MRSA? Are gay men more susceptible to infection? What's sex got to do with it?
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November 29, 2007
SFAF Podcast #22 - Dr. Judith Auerbach Challenges the Definition of Evidence-Based HIV Prevention
In this episode Dr. Judith Auerbach, Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation talks defining the meaning of evidence in relation to evidence-based HIV prevention.
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November 01, 2007
SFAF Podcast #20 - Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa on Bridging the Technology Gap to Fight HIV
In this episode, Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa, Vice President of Global Affairs and Global Projects Specialist at Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation outlines the role of technology in the global fight against HIV. Dr. Rudasingwa will be the moderator for our upcoming November 29th World AIDS Day forum entitled HIV Vision, From Local Knowledge to Global Solutions.
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April 19, 2007
SFAF Podcast #6 - Ernest Hopkins on Pending National HIV Legislation
In this episode of the SFAF Podcast, Ernest Hopkins, Director of Federal Affairs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, discusses Senator Gordon Smith's Early Treatment for HIV Act and Representative Barbara Lee's proposed amendment to remove the "abstinence before marriage" earmark from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
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