SFAF.org Podcast #54 - Dr. Das-Douglas discusses lowering community HIV viral load to help prevent new infections

In this episode, a discussion with Moupali Das-Douglas, M.D., M.P.H. She is the Director of the Research Unit of the HIV Prevention Section at the San Francisco Dept. of Public Health and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases at UCSF. We'll be talking about her research on community HIV viral load and why just getting people on HIV meds isn't enough. Even in San Francisco, health disparities often related to factors including race, poverty and homelessness contribute to much higher viral load in some communities.

SFAF.org Podcast #53 - BETA editor Reilly O'Neal on curbing the spread of HIV through treatment

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.

SFAF.org Podcast #52 - HIV meds for HIV prevention? Dr. Bob Grant discusses global PrEP studies.

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.