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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February 21, 2008
SFAF Podcast #27 - Black Brothers Esteem fights HIV with a community-based program
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February 07, 2008
SFAF Podcast #26 - California budget cuts and pending HIV legislation: what's at stake?
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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