In this episode, we'll hear an edited excerpt from our recent HIVision forum entitled “Is HIV Treatment HIV Prevention?” An audience member asked our panel about possible disparities in access to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). We'll hear Dr. Robert Grant's answer explaining the relationship between biomedical HIV prevention and issues of social justice and stigma.
May 14, 2009
SFAF.org Podcast #55 - The intersection of biomedical HIV prevention and social justice
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January 29, 2009
SFAF Podcast #48 - Dr. Robert Fullilove on the state of US Black HIV/AIDS prevention
In this episode, a discussion with Dr. Robert Fullilove, the Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs and Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. February 7, 2009 will mark the ninth National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Dr. Fullilove talks about the progress being made in HIV prevention for African Americans and where programs are still falling short.
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October 30, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #43 - Sexual identity clouded by abuse and trauma
In this episode, we'll hear an excerpt from our recent HIVision forum entitled Abuse and Trauma: Lessons for HIV prevention and care. Moderator Michael Siever asked the panel how gender and sexuality interact with trauma, abuse and HIV. This epsisode includes commentary from three of the panelists, Cheryl Gore-Felton, Ann Brennan and John Williams.
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October 16, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #42 - Dr. Cheryl Gore-Felton discusses trauma and HIV: an unhealthy intersection
In this episode, we'll be talking with Dr. Cheryl Gore-Felton about abuse and trauma and how they affect the health of people living with HIV and AIDS. Dr. Gore-Felton is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University Medical Center, and the director of clinical intervention research with the Center on Stress and Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She will be a panelist at our upcoming HIVision forum entitled "Abuse and Trauma: Lessons for HIV Prevention and Care." To RSVP for this free forum in San Francisco, please call 415-487-3073 or email hivision@sfaf.org.
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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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June 19, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #35 - AIDS/LifeCycle fights HIV by creating awareness and health
As 3,000 riders and volunteer "roadies" made their way to Los Angeles, AIDS/LifeCycle 7 increased awareness about HIV and AIDS. Peter Lavoie, one of the Co-Chairs of the Positive Pedalers, talks about how AIDS/LifeCycle builds knowledge about HIV and improves health for both HIV-positive and HIV-negative participants. The Positive Pedalers are a group of HIV-positive AIDS/LifeCycle participants, volunteers and staff committed to eliminating stigma through their positive public example.
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May 22, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #33 - Racism & homophobia influence HIV testing and treatment among Black gay men
In this episode you'll hear an excerpt from our May 15th HIVision forum, What's Going On: HIV and Black Gay Men. Panelist Dr. David Malebranche answers a question about HIV testing among Black men with an illuminating portrait of the racism and homophobia Black gay men may encounter when seeking medical attention.
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May 01, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #32 - Ernest Hopkins on government response to the rising HIV transmission rate among Black MSM
In this episode, Ernest Hopkins, the Foundation's Director of Federal Affairs, discusses the local and federal response to rising HIV transmission rates among Black men who have sex with men. Ernest Hopkins will be a panelist at our May 15th HIVision Forum entitled What's Going On: HIV and Black Gay Men.
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April 17, 2008
SFAF.org Podcast #31 - Dr. David Malebranche on the rising HIV transmission rate among Black gay men
Dr. David Malebranche, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University's School of Medicine and a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, discusses HIV and Black gay men. Though it has been demonstrated that HIV risk behaviors in the Black men who have sex with men (MSM) community are often less risky than those of the MSM community in general, the HIV transmission rate in Black gay men continues to rise. Dr. Malebranche will be a panelist at our May 15th HIVision Forum entitled What's Going On: HIV and Black Gay Men.
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November 15, 2007
SFAF Podcast #21 - Dr. Nancy Padian on Empowering Women to Fight HIV
In this episode Dr. Nancy Padian, Director of the UCSF Women's Global Health Imperative and Senior Director for Prevention at Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation shares some of what she's learned from conducting HIV prevention research around the world. She'll be a panelist on our upcoming November 29th World AIDS Day forum entitled HIVision: From Local Knowledge to Global Solutions.
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October 18, 2007
SFAF Podcast #19 - The Next Steps Toward HIV Prevention in Prisons and Jails
In this episode you'll hear an excerpt from our October 11th forum, HIVision: Preventing HIV in Prisons and Jails. Panelists answer an audience question about what must be done to stop an explosion of HIV in U.S. prisons and jails. Today, only 6 jurisdictions provide HIV prevention information or materials to inmates.
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October 04, 2007
SFAF Podcast #18 - Innovative HIV Prevention in San Francisco County Jails
In this episode, Kate Monico Klein, the director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Forensic AIDS Project, discusses HIV prevention in San Francisco county jails. In the late 1980s, the Forensic AIDS Project began distributing condoms to prisoners and today, remains one of only six such programs in the nation.
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June 28, 2007
SFAF Podcast #11 - Dr. Judith Auerbach and Dr. Steven Tierney on the Upcoming HIVision Forum on Gay Men's Health
Dr. Judith Auerbach, Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Dr. Steven Tierney, the AIDS Foundation's Deputy Executive Director for Programs and Services, discuss our upcoming HIVision forum, Exploring What's Positive in Gay Men's Health. The forum on July 10th will be the first in a series of three HIVision forums the AIDS Foundation will convene this year to gather experts and the community together to explore ideas and options for fighting HIV.
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December 04, 2006
Webcast of World AIDS Day Forum available
Many thanks to all who attended “Renew the Promise: End AIDS,” the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's World AIDS Day Forum on Dec. 1. The first of many forums on critical HIV/AIDS issues the Foundation plans to present to the community, “Renew the Promise” began with Hank Plante, Political Editor at CBS-5 in San Francisco, moderating a lively discussion on prevention, epidemiology and resource mobilization with several leaders in HIV/AIDS policy and research. Following the formal conversation, our expert panelists answered questions from the audience.
The Kaiser Family Foundation produced a video webcast of the forum and will soon post a full transcript. The Foundation will also prepare an audio-only version that you can play on your Ipod or other MP3 players. Stay tuned.
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November 22, 2006
World AIDS Day Events in the Bay Area
We're excited about our own World AIDS Day forum, but we've also put together a list of other World AIDS Day events taking place in San Francisco and Oakland on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, illustrating the diversity of the Bay Area's response to HIV/AIDS.
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November 17, 2006
Why is the San Francisco AIDS Foundation Holding its World AIDS Day forum?
Enormous progress has been made in the fight against HIV and AIDS in the United States since the epidemic first emerged in 1981. The rate at which people are becoming infected with HIV has been reduced substantially as a result of extensive education and prevention efforts. As ever-more effective treatments have become available to help HIV-positive people live longer and enjoy improved quality of life, more people have been willing to learn their HIV status, seek HIV-related medical care and engage in safe sex practices with others. The federal government, and most state and local governments, have responded to the needs posed by the epidemic in productive and meaningful ways - although their record is certainly not perfect and a number of significant policy challenges remain.
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation applauds this progress toward ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. And yet, we are frustrated at the persistent and endemic nature of HIV in San Francisco, California and the nation. Despite an enormous investment of commitment, intellect and funding on the part of many individuals and agencies, progress in further controlling the epidemic appears to have stalled. For the past several years, a set of key indicators in the epidemic has remained constant.
An estimated 25 percent of Americans who are HIV-positive do not know their serostatus, either because they do not perceive themselves to be at risk, have never been tested or have not been tested recently. This figure is estimated to be 20 percent in San Francisco, even though great effort has been put into expanding outreach to at-risk communities to encourage testing.
Nationally, an estimated 20 percent of individuals who are HIV-positive are not in care or receiving treatment for their HIV infection. Many positives are choosing not to access available medical care out of fear of revealing their HIV status to others, mistrust of the medical establishment, or co-occurring issues that make it difficult for them to engage with medical care. These issues include mental health problems, substance abuse, and being homeless or marginally housed.
Nationally and in California, the numbers of individuals who are becoming newly infected with HIV annually remain constant at 40,000 and 6,700 to 9,000 people respectively. San Francisco has experienced a welcome decrease in the infection rate in recent years to some 900 to 1,000 individuals annually, but the Foundation believes we should strive to eliminate virtually all new infections.
Many of these issues of endemnicity in the epidemic are disproportionately affecting particular populations that have already suffered deeply from HIV/AIDS, including gay and other men who have sex with men, and communities of color.
In the past year, a national dialogue has begun about what will be necessary to have a significant impact on this set of conditions. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued revised recommendations designed to screen the entire U.S. adult population for HIV infection. Public health officials in several cities, notably New York, have proposed changes to historic approaches to HIV testing and screening in order to have deeper impact on rates of HIV infection, care and treatment. They argue that it is possible to change approaches because the stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV have decreased in recent years, and traditional approaches to HIV control have themselves contributed to stigma.
Many HIV advocates and agencies, however, resist proposed changes in our approach to HIV, believing that traditional public health approaches do not adequately account for stigma and discrimination that persist around HIV, particularly in vulnerable populations.
Through its 2006 World AIDS Day Forum, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation hopes to engender open-minded consideration of new strategies that might be useful in further controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, as well as the social and political conditions that inform adoption or resistance to them. We have assembled a panel of nationally renowned individuals who will discuss these issues interactively with an audience of leaders in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
We invite you to view the forum at www.sfaf.org. And we look forward to your thoughts about the discussion that takes place.
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November 15, 2006
Interview with Jennifer Kates
Jennifer Kates, M.A., M.P.A (bio, .pdf, 15kb) is Vice President and Director of HIV Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit, private operating foundation. Ms. Kates oversees all of the Foundation’s HIV/AIDS policy efforts, directing and conducting policy research and analysis focused on both the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and the epidemic within the United States.
Ms. Kates is involved in several international efforts designed to track global and domestic resource flows to fight the epidemic and is a recognized expert in this field. Ms. Kates also works on the Foundation’s broader global health projects, and was instrumental in designing and overseeing the development of www.globalhealthfacts.org, which provides the latest country-level data on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. She regularly provides HIV/AIDS information to numerous external stakeholders including the news media, policymakers, and community members. Ms. Kates has been working on HIV/AIDS issues for more than 15 years and will be answering questions related to sustaining the commitment to end AIDS at our World AIDS Day forum entitled "Renew the Promise. End AIDS."
Erik Ireland spoke with Ms. Kates about the Kaiser Family Foundation, her policy work and the intersection of GLBT policy concerns and HIV policy concerns today. You can download the interview to your computer by right-clicking on the link below and choosing "save as" or click on the link to open the .mp3 file in your browser.
Interview with Jennifer Kates, M.A., M.P.A. (.mp3, 1.4 mb, 8:09)
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Interview with Dr. Judith Auerbach
Judith Auerbach, PhD (bio, .pdf, 15kb) is Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, where she is responsible for developing, leading, and managing the Foundation's local, state, national, and international policy agenda. She'll be one of our four panel speakers at the SFAF World AIDS Day forum entitled "Renew the Promise. End AIDS." Dr. Auerbach will be addressing questions related to new HIV prevention modalities.
Prior to joining the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Dr. Auerbach served as Vice President of Public Policy and Program Development, at amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research). She also served from 1995 to 2003 as Director of the Behavioral and Social Science Program and HIV Prevention Science Coordinator in the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health. She oversaw activities related to the development of scientific and budgetary priorities for AIDS research in the social, behavioral, and prevention sciences, and AIDS research related to women and girls.
Erik Ireland spoke with Dr. Auerbach about her policy work and prevention approaches specific to women and girls. You can download the interview to your computer by right-clicking on the link below and choosing "save as" or click on the link to open the .mp3 file in your browser.
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November 14, 2006
Interview with Dr. Robert Fullilove
Robert E. Fullilove, EdD (bio, .pdf, 15kb) is the Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairsand Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. He currently co-directs the Community Research Group at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University along with his wife,Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD. They are also co-directors of a newly formed degree program in Urbanism and the Built Environment in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health. He'll be speaking at our World AIDS Day forum in San Francisco on social contextual influences on African American men's HIV risks.
Erik Ireland spoke with Dr. Fullilove about his public health work, its roots in his civil rights work in the 1960s and a new plan he will be launching on December 1st, World AIDS Day, with members of congress, other Black leaders and other public health officials to confront the African American AIDS crisis. You can download the interview to your computer by right-clicking on the link below and choosing "save as" or click on the link to open the .mp3 file in your browser.
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November 13, 2006
Interview with Dr. Timothy Mastro
Dr. Timothy D. Mastro, MD, FACP (bio, .pdf, 15kb) has served since 2005 as Deputy Director for Science in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP), National Center for HIV, STD & TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Mastro has worked at CDC since 1988 when he entered the Epidemic Intelligence Service in the Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases. In 1990, he joined the International AIDS Activities Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. From 1993 through 2000 he served in Bangkok as director of the Thailand MOPH - US CDC HIV/AIDS Collaboration where he supervised important HIV prevention research including the Thai-CDC short-course AZT mother-to-child HIV transmission study, clinical trials of a candidate vaginal microbicide (Carraguard) and preparation for and conduct of the world’s first international HIV vaccine trial (VaxGen’s VAX003). Dr. Mastro returned to CDC-Atlanta in 2000 and served as chief of the HIV Vaccine Section in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. He served in CDC’s Global AIDS Program during 2002-2005 as Chief of the HIV Care & Treatment Branch, Deputy Director for Programs and Acting Director (2004-05); during this time he directed CDC’s participation in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. On December 1st, he'll be joining our World AIDS Day forum to talk about changing HIV testing paradigms.
Erik Ireland spoke with Dr. Mastro by phone last Friday about his work fighting HIV and setting US prevention policy. You can download the interview to your computer by right-clicking on the link below and choosing "save as" or click on the link to open the .mp3 file in your browser.
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November 10, 2006
World AIDS Day 2006
On December 1, 2006, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation is holding a forum with a panel of national experts for a thoughtful discussion regarding the complex issues that will inform the future direction in the fight against HIV/AIDS. What are the implications of the CDC's new guidelines “routinizing” HIV testing? How do we best address the soaring and disproportionate rates of HIV infection among African American gay and other men? What's all the buzz about new HIV prevention technologies? Given the sustained rate of new HIV infections nationally and globally, what are the prospects for sustained resources?
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