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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.