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New Campaign Aims To Cut HIV Infection Rate
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San Francisco Slashes HIV Prevention Budget for Asian Americans
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San Francisco Slashes HIV Prevention Budget for Asian Americans
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New Mental Health Center Opens in the Castro
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Merck and UCSF Team Up to Find New Weapons Against Resurgent HIV
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UCSF Team Shows Spirit at AIDS Walk San Francisco
<p>The UCSF team showed its spirit in the 25th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco, which drew more than 25,000 walkers and raised more than $3 million to benefit HIV/AIDS programs and services in the Bay Area.</p>
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Common Infection Increases Risk of Transmitting HIV
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UCSF Researchers to Nab Nearly $2M in Additional Bill & Melinda Gates 'Grand Challenge' Grants
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Daily Dose of Gilead Drugs Prevent Heterosexual HIV Infection, Study Shows
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Gates Foundation Gives Millions For Research On Malaria, HIV, More
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Pills Found to be Highly Effective in Preventing HIV Transmission
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Studies: HIV Meds Can Help Prevent New Infections
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Varying Efficacy of HIV Drug Cocktails Explained
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UCSF Rallies Teams in Final Days Before AIDS Walk
<p>Members of the UCSF community only have a few days left to register to walk at AIDS Walk San Francisco, which is slated for Sunday, July 17. Funds may be donated to the cause through mid-August.</p>
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NIH Supports New HIV Cure Research Strategies
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Big NIH Grants Show Bay Area Still at Center of HIV Fight
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NIH Supports New Research Strategy for Finding a Cure for HIV
An international team led by researchers from UCSF and the nonprofit Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Port St. Lucie, Fla., has received a major grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a strategy to eradicate HIV from the body.
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HIV Testing Is Not Just For High-Risk Groups
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The March Continues: UCSF Takes Lead in 25th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco
<p>In advance of the upcoming AIDS Walk San Francisco, UCSF will host a free public screening of a documentary depicting the emergence of the epidemic at San Francisco General Hospital and a talk by UCSF's Jay Levy, co-discoverer of HIV as the cause of AIDS, on June 29.</p>
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New Website Answers What Works in Global Health
<p>A team of researchers at UCSF and the Kaiser Family Foundation has launched a new web portal this month that summarizes findings for a range of prevention and treatment interventions designed to reduce the risk of death and disease in the developing world.</p>
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Learning Lessons from an HIV Cure
<p>For doctors confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, safe sex education or other means; and treatment, or discovering effective drugs and providing them to people with HIV/AIDS, helping them live longer.</p>
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A Dentist Need Not Be a Masked Demon
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Premature Aging Seen As Issue For AIDS Survivors
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SFGH Grand Rounds Explores Disease That First Defined AIDS
<p>Doctors and other health care professionals packed into San Francisco General Hospital’s Carr Auditorium for the June 7 medical grand rounds, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the first AIDS report to the US Centers of Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention.</p>
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SFGH's Ward 86: Pioneering HIV/AIDS Care for 30 Years
<p>San Francisco General Hospital's internationally renowned Ward 86, one of the oldest and largest HIV/AIDS clinics in the United States, has from the start of the epidemic led efforts to understand HIV and develop treatments that make it possible for patients to manage the disease.</p>
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First AIDS Research Conference in Uganda Focuses on Building Collaborations Among African Investigators
<p>The first conference of its kind in Uganda drew together investigators from across all of sub-Saharan Africa to discuss leading-edge problems in the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of fostering meaningful collaborations to combat the disease.</p>
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Medical Grand Rounds at SFGH on June 7 to Mark 30 Years of AIDS
<p>Laurence Huang, MD, a professor of medicine in the HIV/AIDS Division, will give a lecture titled “30 Years of PCP in HIV/AIDS: Past, Present, Future” at San Francisco General Hospital from noon until 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7.</p>
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AIDS Virus May Accelerate Aging, Scientists Say
<p>Thanks to life-saving treatment, in a few years most people in the United States living with the AIDS virus, HIV, will be more than 50 years old. But even among the successfully treated, HIV, is associated with chronic inflammation, and higher rates of chronic diseases of aging. Inflammation may be a driver of aging, some scientists believe, and HIV patients may be vulnerable to accelerated aging as a result.</p>
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Treatment is Key to Prevention of HIV/AIDS, Doctors Say
<p>Preventing transmission to partners or children is key to this curbing the HIV/AIDS epidemic and researchers report t exciting new tools and tactics employed in the now 30-year war against the disease.</p>