SFAF.org Podcast #38 - Multiple partners and multiple risks: exploring sexual concurrency

In this episode, Professor Gary Dowsett, deputy director at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, talks about concurrency, a term used to describe sexual relationships with multiple partners, in HIV prevention. Research shows that this practice is a factor in many new HIV infections, but effective interventions may include embracing-not rejecting-some of the structures that surround cultures with multiple sexual partnerships including gay men.

SFAF.org IAC Podcast - Congresswoman Barbara Lee discuses a way forward in HIV prevention in the U.S. and around the world

In this episode of the SFAF.org IAC podcast, recorded at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Erik Ireland sits down with Congresswoman Barbara Lee, serving as an active participant in the Conference for the fifth consecutive year.  Representative Lee gives her candid appraisal of recent legislative successes like the reauthorized President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and calls out where the new bill falls short. She explains why family planning is a vital part of HIV prevention and offers a her solution to years of wasted money on abstinence-only--until-marriage education. The conversation concludes with a few thoughts about the long history of HIV/AIDS advocacy in the Bay Area.

SFAF.org IAC Podcast - Successful sex education in Latin America. Can we make it work in the US?

In this episode of the SFAF.org IAC podcast, recorded at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Erik Ireland speaks with one of the Foundation's allies in the ongoing battle against abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. Bill Smith, Vice President for Public Policy at SIECUS, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, discusses a model for comprehensive sex education in Mexico and provides an update on the evidence that supports comprehensive sex education in the U.S. and the growing number of states that reject federal monies earmarked for abstinence-only programs.

SFAF.org IAC Podcast - Mark Cloutier outlines the significance of the CDC's recently revised HIV numbers

The Centers for Disease Control released its long-awaited revision of HIV incidence in the United States as the XVII International AIDS Conference got underway in Mexico City. In this special Conference edition of the SFAF.org podcast, Foundation CEO Mark Cloutier explains the new data and the ways in which San Francisco may be bucking the national trend. 

SFAF.org Podcast #37 - Mitchell Warren on HIV vaccine research setbacks and evidence-based HIV prevention

In this episode, Mitchell Warren, Executive Director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, discusses the recent cancellation of the next round of HIV vaccine trials by the NIH and the relationship between behavioral HIV interventions and continued vaccine research. Mitchell will be co-chairing a satellite session at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City with the Foundation's Dr. Judith Auerbach entitled "Confronting the 'Evidence' in Evidence-based HIV Prevention." For the latest information on evidence-based HIV prevention, be sure to read the Foundation's new Summary Report and look for a recording of the Mexico City satellite session on the sfaf.org policy page in mid-August. We'll also have podcast interviews and updates from Mexico City on the podcast web site during the International AIDS Conference.