San Francisco will dedicate $1.7 million in new funding to support the city’s Getting to Zero program, an ongoing initiative aimed at making the city the first in the country to be free of AIDS and HIV infections.
After what Shane Ryan calls “a silly, stupid weekend” in late April, he joined the many other men in San Francisco, California, who line up six mornings each week and wait for the doors to open at Magnet. Located in the city’s Castro district, Magnet provides sexual health services for gay and bisexual men. Last year, the center diagnosed 37% of the new HIV infections in the city.
An ambitious new plan in San Francisco aims to completely end the transmission of HIV, which infects about 50,000 people every year nationwide. In a city where huge strides have already been made in battling the epidemic, public health officials, doctors and activists are increasing their efforts to bring the number of new HIV infections down to zero. NewsHour's John Carlos Frey reports.
A programme that provides pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) through primary care referrals in San Francisco has not seen a single HIV infection in people using PrEP since it started in 2012. This is despite high levels of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) other than HIV and, in about 40% of users, less use of condoms.
SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t his first broken condom, so Rafael didn’t worry. But three weeks later, the man he’d met in a bar called to say that he had “probably been exposed” to H.I.V.
San Francisco officials set a goal to become the first city ever to halt HIV/AIDS transmissions, part of the “Getting To Zero” initiative announced last week at City Hall and backed by $1.7 million in new funding.
A group of San Francisco-based HIV researchers — described as a scientific "dream team" — will use a $20 million grant to try to eradicate the deadly AIDS virus by 2020.
SAN FRANCISCO -- After nearly three decades of battling HIV, Frank Brooks is daring to believe what once seemed unthinkable: a life free of AIDS.
San Francisco made good progress in HIV prevention and treatment during 2015, and its successes have brought the city national and worldwide attention. But more work is needed to 'get to zero', especially reaching groups currently underserved by current efforts.
The San Francisco-based Horizons Foundation has kicked off a campaign to raise $100 million to support Bay Area LGBT causes for many years to come.
