[unable to retrieve full-text content]Mayor Ed Lee announced Thursday morning that he will use city money to backfill $6.6 million in federal cuts to AIDS and HIV care in the city for the new fiscal year that starts July 1. "Despite continuing local budget…
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – MS — This summer, more than 25,000 leading scientists, public health experts, policy-makers, community members, and experts in the HIV/AIDS field from around the world will gather in our nation’s capital for the International AIDS Society‘s XIX International AIDS Conference. This gathering provides a vital platform to address the global ...Read More
Mayor Ed Lee announced plans to restore $6.6 million in cut federal funding for HIV/AIDS care, treatment and prevention in San Francisco on Thursday. The announcement came just one day after health providers and advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall to protest $7.8 million in federal funding set to expire on June 30. ...Read More
This week, boxes of the brand-new edition of our booklet covering stigma issues, entitled HIV, stigma & discrimination arrived at our mailhouse, and very excited we are about it too! We blogged recently about the booklet’s content being updated and available on our website, but at the time we had not been able to secure ...Read More
San Francisco’s Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center will get to mark some good news tonight (Thursday, May 17) at their Bloom fundraiser. Mayor Ed Lee has announced he’s restoring more than $6 million in HIV/AIDS funding that the federal government is cutting. The reductions could have meant API Wellness Center and other providers slashing ...Read More
San Francisco’s Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center will get to mark some good news tonight (Thursday, May 17) at their Bloom fundraiser. Mayor Ed Lee has announced he’s restoring more than $6 million in HIV/AIDS funding that the federal government is cutting. The reductions could have meant API Wellness Center and other providers slashing ...Read More
People suffering from HIV/AIDS are at much higher risk than the general population of sudden cardiac death, researchers in California have found. In a paper published Monday in the “Journal of the American College of Cardiology,” two professors at the University of California-San Francisco show incidents of “sudden cardiac death” to be four times higher ...Read More
San Francisco city and community leaders called on Mayor Ed Lee Wednesday to find money in the city’s budget for local HIV and AIDS programs that are set to lose about nearly $8 million in federal funding later this year. Supervisors Scott Wiener, David Campos and Christina Olague were among a few dozen people who ...Read More
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Enlarge Shashank Bengali/MCT/Landov A mother and child wait to receive treatment at the HIV clinic in Nyagasambu, Rwanda, in Feb. 2008. The clinic was built by the Washington-based Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation with a grant from the PEPFAR program. Shashank Bengali/MCT/Landov A mother and child wait to receive treatment at the HIV clinic in ...Read More