UCSF AIDS Research Institute

02/02/2023

Ward 86, the first dedicated HIV clinic in the United States, recently marked its 40th anniversary with a celebration at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Since its inception, Ward 86 has been a key element of the "San Francisco model" of comprehensive community-based HIV care. Over the years, the clinic has pioneered innovations in HIV treatment and prevention that have been adopted nationwide and around the world.

"Treatment has dramatically changed the lives of our patients. But let me tell you what has not changed. Number one, [Ward 86] is patient-centered. And secondly, we are constantly figuring out better ways to deliver scientific advances in HIV to our patients," said Dr. Diane Havlir, SFGH's chief of HIV, infectious diseases, and global medicine. "Ward 86 is the Silicon Valley of innovation for AIDS care, and what we do here is transferred both locally and globally."

Ward 86, the first dedicated HIV clinic in the United States, recently marked its 40th anniversary with a celebration at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

12/07/2022

World AIDS Day Interview with Dr. Eric Goosby
conducted by Drs. Monica Gandhi and Diane Havlir

Insights from Domestic and Global Service to HIV

11/15/2022

The Indigenous HART Program
IHART2 is the second iteration of the Indigenous HIV/AIDS Research Training (IHART) program. IHART2 is an innovative research training program for Indigenous, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NHPI) and other underrepresented ethnic minority scholars. The IHART2 program aims to develop a network of scholars dedicated to culturally grounded research that will contribute to ameliorating health disparities among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) and the historically underserved HIV/AIDS population of NHPI .
http://iwri.org/research/ihart-2/

11/07/2022

A symposium designed to strengthen interactions among Bay Area scientists and clinicians who share a strong interest in virology.

09/12/2022

September 18, 2022 marks National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day. Led by the AIDS Institute, this day brings attention to the people who are living long and full lives with HIV and to their health and social needs. As the 50 year and older age group is the fastest growing population with HIV it is more important than ever to find ways to support this population.

For more info, click here: https://www.nhaad.org/

08/26/2022

Wednesday, September 7, 2022
2PM PT | 5PM ET
Register here: http://ow.ly/QB4b50Krfst

virtual seminar on research gaps and the MPX outbreak on September 7th co-hosted by the Sexual and Gender Minority and Latina/x/o SIGs!

Save the date for the virtual seminar on research gaps and the MPX outbreak on September 7th co-hosted by the Sexual and Gender Minority and Latina/x/o SIGs!
http://ow.ly/QB4b50Krfst

07/28/2022

HIV unmuted: Why is public health unfair? The story of monkeypox, COVID-19 & HIV

The development of COVID-19 vaccines has allowed some people to return to “normal life”. But even now, not everyone can access these vaccines, particularly people living in low-income countries.

Unequal access to healthcare is a sadly familiar story for people living with HIV. From 1997 to 2006, an estimated 12 million people on the continent of Africa died because HIV treatment was too expensive.

In this episode of HIV unmuted, the award-winning IAS podcast, we will discuss why these parallels in unfair healthcare access are showing up time and time again, look ahead to the recent monkeypox outbreak, and assess whether we have learnt the critical lessons from COVID-19 and HIV.

Listen to this episode from HIV unmuted on Spotify. The development of COVID-19 vaccines has allowed some people to return to “normal life”. But even now, not everyone can access these vaccines, particularly people living in low-income countries. Unequal access to healthcare is a sadly familiar ...

02/24/2022

ARI Special Update: Commemorating the FACES Program

February 24, 2022 Dear Readers, Kicking off 2022, we are doing a tribute and update on an amazing UCSF HIV international Program in Kenya – FACES. We wanted to share with you how FACES started, its high impact and accomplishments to date and its exciting new direction. ARI is proud to support dome...