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In this exerpt from the Foundation's latest HIVision Forum, panelists, Imani Woods and Grant Colfax, explore the philosophy and misunderstanding around harm reduction, the tangible results they’ve seen from programs that operate from a harm reduction premise and the capacity of those programs to bring positive change to people's lives.
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In this episode Ernest Hopkins, the Foundation's Director of Federal Affairs, talks about the reauthorization of the Ryan White CARE Act. On the eve of the White House signing ceremony, Ernest reveals the importance of providing life-sustaining care for people living with HIV and AIDS through Ryan White as health care reform makes its way through Congress.
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Recent results from a study trial in Thailand provide the first glimpse of hope that we may someday have a vaccine that protects people from HIV infection. In this episode, Mitchell Warren, Executive Director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, reviews these new scientific findings with the Foundation's Erik Ireland and explains what the results mean…and what they don't.
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The Foundation partners with many organizations to reduce new HIV infections and increase access to care for people living with HIV. In this episode, Dana Van Gorder, Executive Director of Project Inform, discusses HIV treatment as HIV prevention, PrEP and the importance of the National HIV/AIDS Treatment and Information Hotline.
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One of the least understood areas of HIV research is the ongoing hunt for a vaccine to prevent infection. In this episode, Jen Sarché of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, answers questions about the 505 Study, a new HIV vaccine trial being conducted by the HIV Vaccine Trials Network at the National Institutes of Health. San Francisco is one of ten nationwide sites for the 505 Study, designed to increase our understanding of the T-cell's response to infection. Jen will work with partners across the region—including the San Francisco AIDS Foundation—to raise understanding about HIV vaccines and how individuals can get involved in the search.
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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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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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In this episode Dale Gluth, the HIV Counseling Testing & Linkages Manager at Magnet, discusses sexual harm reduction and how it factors into a comprehensive strategy for combating new HIV infections in San Francisco. Located in the heart of San Francisco's Castro district, Magnet offers free sexual health services including HIV and STD testing for gay and bisexual men.
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In this episode Ernest Hopkins, the Foundation's Director of Federal Affairs, talks about the Obama administration's progress on the National AIDS Strategy, the recent White House reception with LGBT leaders on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the progress being made toward lifting the US ban on HIV-positive foreign travelers.
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HIV/AIDS services in California narrowly escaped draconian cuts in the first budget the governor sent to the State legislature. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation and peer organizations all over the State went to work immediately to fight cuts to prevention, HIV testing, surveillance and treatment for more than 35,000 Californians. In this episode of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation podcast, Peter Taback shares details of the current budget compromise and reminds us that basic advocacy tools are still effective.
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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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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.
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In this episode, a discussion with Reilly O'Neal, editor of BETA, the Foundation's Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS. Recent studies offer evidence and raise questions about the role of antiretroviral medications in curbing the spread of HIV. Questions such as "Are HIV-positive people who take antiretroviral drugs less likely to transmit the virus?" Find out what's being done to answer these questions and the relationship between HIV treatment and HIV prevention.
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In this episode, Dr. Bob Grant, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and an investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, discusses the PrEP Initiative study. These trials are trying to determine whether HIV medications given to HIV negative people at higher risk of infection will help reduce the amount new infections.
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In this episode, Dr. Marsha Martin, the Director of Get Screened Oakland, discusses why everyone should get an HIV test. Nationally, one in four people who are HIV positive do not know it. One of the strategic goals of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation is to have every San Francisco resident between 13 to 64 know their current HIV status by 2015.
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In this episode, a discussion with Dr. Jae Sevelius, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. Dr. Sevelius recently completed a study on transgender men who have sex with men which sheds light on high-risk behaviors in a community that is difficult to reach. We'll talk about why we may see a rise in HIV prevalence among these men in the near future and what can be done to prevent it. For additional information, read the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s HIV Evidence Report on factors that contribute to disproportionate HIV prevalence in the transgender population.
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In this episode, Courtney Mulhearn-Pearson, the Foundation's Policy and Legislative Associate, explains about how California's current phlebotomy laws may be hampering efforts to increase HIV testing in the state and what the Foundation is doing to help to change this. In 1999, California required anyone doing finger-prick blood testing to obtain a limited phlebotomy certificate.
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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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In this episode, Dr. Kathleen Clanon will be discussing the best ways for people with HIV and their health care providers to make the most of their time together. Dr. Clanon is an internist specializing in the care of people with HIV and she practices at Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, where she is also the Medical Director of HIV Services.
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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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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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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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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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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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In this episode, Dr. Michael Siever, the Foundation's Director of Behavioral Health Sciences and the founder of the Stonewall Project, discusses the effects of abuse and trauma among gay men. Studies have shown that links exist between abuse and trauma and a greater potential for drug abuse and increased HIV risk behaviors.
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In this episode, Professor Gary Dowsett, deputy director at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, talks about concurrency, a term used to describe sexual relationships with multiple partners, in HIV prevention. Research shows that this practice is a factor in many new HIV infections, but effective interventions may include embracing-not rejecting-some of the structures that surround cultures with multiple sexual partnerships including gay men.
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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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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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The Centers for Disease Control released its long-awaited revision of HIV incidence in the United States as the XVII International AIDS Conference got underway in Mexico City. In this special Conference edition of the SFAF.org podcast, Foundation CEO Mark Cloutier explains the new data and the ways in which San Francisco may be bucking the national trend.
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Dr. Judith Auerbach, Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, discusses behavioral interventions for reducing HIV risk and transmission and the Foundation's newest publication, the HIV Evidence Report. The first issue of this report outlines ten effective behavioral HIV interventions, but many questions about the future of behavioral HIV interventions still remain.
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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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In this episode, Tom Kennedy, a public health educator who has been working in HIV prevention in San Francisco since 1992, discusses the current state of HIV vaccine trials. Last autumn, the STEP HIV vaccine trial was halted due to safety concerns. With delays now affecting the launch of new vaccine trials, Tom answers questions about the state of HIV vaccine research and what is being done to ensure the safety of trial participants.
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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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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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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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Dr. Judith Auerbach, Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, discusses findings revealed at the recent International Microbicides Conference in New Delhi, India. After a few disappointing setbacks, current microbicide research and trials are beginning to yield results that may lead to another effective HIV prevention tool.
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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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In this episode we'll hear from Steve Gibson, the Director of Magnet, a health and community center for gay men in the Castro. Magnet was created in 2003 by members of the Castro's gay community as a response to rising rates of HIV and STD transmission. Find out how this San Francisco AIDS Foundation program helps fight HIV with a holistic approach to health and community building.
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In this episode Tony Bradford, Program Manager for Black Brothers Esteem, discusses the Foundation's community-based program to empower gay and bisexual African-American men who live in the Tenderloin/Polk Gulch and Sixth Street Corridor neighborhoods of San Francisco. In addition to providing HIV prevention and support to a community disproportionately vulnerable to HIV infection, Black Brothers Esteem addresses issues affecting program participants' overall health such as racism, addiction, poverty, homophobia, violence, and marginal housing conditions.
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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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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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In this episode, Mark Cloutier, Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and President of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, discusses a year of lessons learned in the fight against HIV and opportunities that lie ahead in 2008 to review and revise approaches to prevention and care, and improve popular understanding of HIV and AIDS.
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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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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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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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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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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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