Mary Sylla, Policy & Advocacy Director at the Center for Health Justice, discusses the current status of HIV prevention in prisons and jails and answers some of the questions surrounding this controversial topic. The Center for Health Justice is co-sponsoring the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's upcoming HIVision forum, Preventing HIV in Prisons and Jails. Ms. Sylla will moderate the October 11th event.
September 20, 2007
SFAF Podcast #17 - Mary Sylla Confronts the Issues Surrounding HIV Prevention in Prisons and Jails
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August 09, 2007
SFAF Podcast #14 - HIV Microbicides: A Science and Public Policy Update
In this episode, we'll get the latest information about research on microbicides — chemical compounds now in development — that may help prevent HIV transmission. Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, a policy analyst in the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Department of Science and Public Policy explains that although there are no HIV microbicides approved for use in humans, research may soon yield another effective tool for HIV prevention.
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July 26, 2007
SFAF Podcast #13 - Fighting HIV in Mexican Migrant Communities
Jorge Zepeda, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Director of Latino Programs, talks about preventing and treating HIV in Mexican migrant communities in the US and Mexico. HIV infection rates in rural Mexico are on the rise, due in part to migrant workers returning home from the US with undiagnosed HIV.
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July 12, 2007
SFAF Podcast #12 - Experts discuss serosorting as a possible prevention strategy at SFAF HIVision forum.
In this episode, we've excerpted a ten-minute conversation on serosorting from our recent forum, Exploring What's Positive in Gay Men's Health. This was the first of three HIVision fora the AIDS Foundation will convene this year bringing research and evidence to bear on timely policy and program issues, providing a safe venue to engage community discussion on potentially controversial topics.
For more information, including an audio recording of the recent forum which will be available after July 17th, visit http://www.sfaf.org/hivision/.
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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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June 14, 2007
SFAF Podcast #10 - Mark Cloutier on Improving Gay Men's Health to Fight HIV
This episode concludes our four-part series on gay men's health. Mark Cloutier, Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, discusses the AIDS Foundation's commitment to improving gay men's health as a way of reducing new HIV infections and helping HIV positive men live longer, healthier lives.
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May 31, 2007
SFAF Podcast #9 - Crystal Meth and Gay Men's Health with Michael Siever from The Stonewall Project
This is the third episode in our four-part series on gay men's health. Michael Siever, Director of the Stonewall Project, a harm reduction program for gay and bisexual men, illustrates the dangerous links between crystal meth, sex and HIV transmission. The Stonewall Project and Magnet, a gay men's community health center in the Castro, will join the AIDS Foundation on July 1. In the fourth episode of this series, AIDS Foundation Executive Director Mark Cloutier will discuss the Foundation's commitment to gay men's health and ways we can build a healthier community.
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May 17, 2007
SFAF Podcast #8 - Anal Sex and Gay Men's Health with Steven Gibson from Magnet
This is the second episode in our four-part series on gay men's health. Steven Gibson, Director of Magnet, a gay men's community health center in the Castro, discusses safer anal sex and gay men's health. The AIDS Foundation recently announced that Magnet and the Stonewall Project will join the Foundation on July 1. In our next episode, we'll discuss substance use and gay men's health with Michael Siever, Director of the Stonewall Project.
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May 03, 2007
SFAF Podcast #7 - Dr. Steven Tierney on Oral Sex and Gay Men's Health
This episode is the first in a four-part series on gay men's health. Dr. Steven Tierney, Deputy Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, discusses oral sex and its relationship to gay men's health. In upcoming episodes, we'll hear from two of our newest partners, the directors of Stonewall Project and Magnet, two established community health programs that serve gay men in San Francisco. We wrap up the series in late June just before San Francisco Gay Pride by talking with SFAF Executive Director Mark Cloutier about the Foundation's commitment to gay men's health.
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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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April 05, 2007
SFAF Podcast #5 - Dr. Judith Auerbach on Combining the Latest Behavioral and Biomedical HIV Prevention Strategies
In this episode, Dr. Judith Auerbach, Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, discusses the latest research on behavioral interventions to prevent HIV and illustrates a new combined biomedical/behavioral approach to decrease infection rates.
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March 22, 2007
SFAF Podcast #4 - Mark Cloutier on the Closing of San Francisco's Office of AIDS
In this episode of the SFAF Podcast, Mark Cloutier, Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and President of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, talks about the impending closure of the San Francisco municipal Office of AIDS and what challenges and opportunities may lie ahead as HIV/AIDS services become more integrated into the public health system.
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March 07, 2007
SFAF Podcast - Episode 3 - HIV/AIDS and African-American health: A spiritual connection?
In the third episode of the SFAF Podcast, William Bland, Director of Community Programs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, talks about the connections between spirituality and health in the African-American LGBT community, which is disproportionately affected by HIV. Demonstrating that faith-based programs can be implemented outside of "faith-based institutions," Bland and the Black Brothers Esteem program are innovating integrated approaches to building community and individual health.
You can read about the story behind the BBE Life of Hope Spirituality Forum or get more information about the event at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation web site.
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February 22, 2007
SFAF Podcast - Episode 2 - Dana Van Gorder illustrates how the new California meth prevention fund may help fight HIV.
In our second episode, Erik Ireland speaks with Dana Van Gorder, Director of State & Local Affairs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, about the new California methamphetamine abuse prevention fund and plans for a statewide campaign to deter meth use. Data show a significant relationship between meth use and HIV risk among a range of population groups, including gay men.
Van Gorder develops and monitors legislation and budgets in Sacramento and San Francisco that impact HIV/AIDS programs. He has served as the Coordinator of Lesbian & Gay Health Services for the San Francisco Department of Public Health and is a founder of the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center Project.
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February 08, 2007
SFAF Podcast - Episode One - Ernest Hopkins explains how Ryan White changes will affect SF and the nation.
We're proud to be sharing this link to the first episode of the new San Francisco AIDS Foundation podcast. Now you can get concise biweekly updates on current HIV/AIDS topics from our experts in policy, treatment and prevention. You'll get your questions answered by the people closest to issues surrounding HIV/AIDS in a short program that you can listen to anytime at your computer or on your personal music player.
In our first episode, Ernest Hopkins, Director of Federal Affairs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, talks about the recent changes to the Ryan White CARE Act and how they may affect AIDS services in San Francisco and nationwide. Mr. Hopkins is responsible for implementing the agency's federal policy advocacy agenda. He is a well known HIV/AIDS advocate and was instrumental in the passage of the current Ryan White CARE Act.
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