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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 STOP AIDS project emerged out of research conducted by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the San Francisco Department of Public Health. In 1984, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation , along with funding provided by the San Francisco Department of Public Health , contracted with Research & Decisions Corporation to conduct a survey of gay ...
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.
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]
In 2012, Havlir wrote a nine-point plan, the D.C. Declaration, which outlined what was needed to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. [8] [9] She acted as co-chair of the 2012 International AIDS Conference. [8] She co-founded the San Francisco Getting to Zero coalition, which looks to reduce the number of HIV infections and deaths in San Francisco by 90% ...
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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.