In this episode you'll hear an excerpt from our May 15th HIVision forum, What's Going On: HIV and Black Gay Men. Panelist Dr. David Malebranche answers a question about HIV testing among Black men with an illuminating portrait of the racism and homophobia Black gay men may encounter when seeking medical attention.
In this episode, Ernest Hopkins, the Foundation's Director of Federal Affairs, discusses the local and federal response to rising HIV transmission rates among Black men who have sex with men. Ernest Hopkins will be a panelist at our May 15th HIVision Forum entitled What's Going On: HIV and Black Gay Men.
Dr. David Malebranche, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University's School of Medicine and a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, discusses HIV and Black gay men. Though it has been demonstrated that HIV risk behaviors in the Black men who have sex with men (MSM) community are often less risky than those of the MSM community in general, the HIV transmission rate in Black gay men continues to rise. Dr. Malebranche will be a panelist at our May 15th HIVision Forum entitled What's Going On: HIV and Black Gay Men.
Dr. Judith Auerbach, Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, discusses findings revealed at the recent International Microbicides Conference in New Delhi, India. After a few disappointing setbacks, current microbicide research and trials are beginning to yield results that may lead to another effective HIV prevention tool.
Continue reading "SFAF.org Podcast #30 - Dr. Judith Auerbach on current HIV microbicide research" »
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.
In this episode, Mark Cloutier, Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and President of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, discusses a year of lessons learned in the fight against HIV and opportunities that lie ahead in 2008 to review and revise approaches to prevention and care, and improve popular understanding of HIV and AIDS.
Continue reading "SFAF Podcast #23 - The Year in Review with Mark Cloutier" »
In this episode Dr. Judith Auerbach, Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation talks defining the meaning of evidence in relation to evidence-based HIV prevention.
In this episode you'll hear an excerpt from our October 11th forum, HIVision: Preventing HIV in Prisons and Jails. Panelists answer an audience question about what must be done to stop an explosion of HIV in U.S. prisons and jails. Today, only 6 jurisdictions provide HIV prevention information or materials to inmates.
Continue reading "SFAF Podcast #19 - The Next Steps Toward HIV Prevention in Prisons and Jails" »
With the House and Senate returning to Capitol Hill this week, Ernest Hopkins, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Director of Federal Affairs, gives us an update on the progress of HIV/AIDS legislation currently before Congress, including the Early Treatment for HIV Act (ETHA) and the HIV in Prisons Act.
In this episode, we'll get the latest information about research on microbicides — chemical compounds now in development — that may help prevent HIV transmission. Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, a policy analyst in the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Department of Science and Public Policy explains that although there are no HIV microbicides approved for use in humans, research may soon yield another effective tool for HIV prevention.
Continue reading "SFAF Podcast #14 - HIV Microbicides: A Science and Public Policy Update" »
In this episode, we've excerpted a ten-minute conversation on serosorting from our recent forum, Exploring What's Positive in Gay Men's Health. This was the first of three HIVision fora the AIDS Foundation will convene this year bringing research and evidence to bear on timely policy and program issues, providing a safe venue to engage community discussion on potentially controversial topics.
For more information, including an audio recording of the recent forum which will be available after July 17th, visit http://www.sfaf.org/hivision/.
Dr. Judith Auerbach, Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Dr. Steven Tierney, the AIDS Foundation's Deputy Executive Director for Programs and Services, discuss our upcoming HIVision forum, Exploring What's Positive in Gay Men's Health. The forum on July 10th will be the first in a series of three HIVision forums the AIDS Foundation will convene this year to gather experts and the community together to explore ideas and options for fighting HIV.
In this episode, Dr. Judith Auerbach, Deputy Executive Director for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, discusses the latest research on behavioral interventions to prevent HIV and illustrates a new combined biomedical/behavioral approach to decrease infection rates.
In this episode of the SFAF Podcast, Mark Cloutier, Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and President of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, talks about the impending closure of the San Francisco municipal Office of AIDS and what challenges and opportunities may lie ahead as HIV/AIDS services become more integrated into the public health system.
We're proud to be sharing this link to the first episode of the new San Francisco AIDS Foundation podcast. Now you can get concise biweekly updates on current HIV/AIDS topics from our experts in policy, treatment and prevention. You'll get your questions answered by the people closest to issues surrounding HIV/AIDS in a short program that you can listen to anytime at your computer or on your personal music player.
In our first episode, Ernest Hopkins, Director of Federal Affairs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, talks about the recent changes to the Ryan White CARE Act and how they may affect AIDS services in San Francisco and nationwide. Mr. Hopkins is responsible for implementing the agency's federal policy advocacy agenda. He is a well known HIV/AIDS advocate and was instrumental in the passage of the current Ryan White CARE Act.
