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The San Francisco model of AIDS care began in 1983 in wards 86 and 5B of San Francisco General Hospital. The focus of this model was not only on the health of each patient with AIDS, but also on the well-being of each person. As AIDS was beginning to be treated as a significant epidemic, San Francisco General Hospital recognized the need to ...
The UCSF Alliance Health Project (AHP), formerly the AIDS Health Project, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides mental health and wellness services for the HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ communities in San Francisco. It is part of the University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry. In addition to direct service to ...
The mission statement of the STOP AIDS Project evolved from "The mission of the STOP AIDS Project is to prevent HIV Transmission among gay men in San Francisco" to "The mission of the STOP AIDS Project is to prevent HIV Transmission among all gay, bisexual and transgender men in San Francisco through collaborative and multicultural, community based organising."
The Shanti Project is a non-profit human services agency based in San Francisco and founded in 1974 by Dr. Charles Garfield in Berkeley, CA. [1] Its goals are to provide peer support and guidance to people affected by HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening conditions.
Publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times gave the CDC's findings news coverage. [15] June 1981 additionally saw the first AIDS patient getting received into care under the aegis of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). By August 1981, the CDC reported a full 108 cases of the new disease across America. [16]
The SFAF was established in April 1982 [4] as the Kaposi's Sarcoma Research and Education Foundation, by Cleve Jones, [5] Marcus Conant, Frank Jacobson, and Richard Keller. [6] They reorganized as the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1984. [2] The SFAF was originally an all volunteer group led by physicians and gay community leaders. [7]
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Coverage included shortfalls of resources for AIDS research and education in NYC, and how the response in San Francisco was more effective [57] Dr. Mathilde Krim plans to meet with New York City officials (Carol Bellamy, who did not see her, and Andrew Stein) to discuss a proposal for a coordinated city response based on San Francisco programs.