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AIDS 2012 Declaration Draws Support to End Global AIDS Epidemic
<p>Nearly 4,000 people around the world have shown their support for ending the global AIDS epidemic by signing an online declaration during the XIX International AIDS Conference.</p>
San Francisco VA/UCSF Psychiatry Researcher Honored by Behavioral Medicine Society
<p>Aoife O’Donovan, PhD, a Society in Science: Branco Weiss Fellow in psychiatry at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF, was presented with the Neal E. Miller New Investigator Award for 2012 by the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.</p>
Early Treatment May Improve Socioeconomic Conditions for People in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa With HIV
Adults with HIV in rural sub-Saharan Africa who receive antiretroviral drugs early in their infection may reap benefits in their ability to work and their children's ability to stay in school, according to a first-of-its-kind clinical study in Uganda that compared socioeconomic outcomes with CD4+ counts — a standard measure of health status for people with HIV.
SEARCH Study Shows 1-Year Drop in HIV Virus Levels in Rural Ugandan Parish After Community Health Campaign
Population-wide levels of HIV virus dropped substantially between 2011 and May 2012 in a rural part of southwestern Uganda, the site of two community health campaigns led by doctors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.
Health Campaign Shows Universal HIV Testing Can Be Extended for Early Identification of Other Diseases
A clinical study in a remote region of southwest Uganda has demonstrated the feasibility of using a health campaign to rapidly test a community for HIV and simultaneously offer prevention and diagnosis for a variety of other diseases in rural and resource-poor settings of sub-Saharan Africa.
Experts Outline Steps Towards an AIDS-free Generation
<p>A perspective published in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine</em> this week by professors at UCSF and the Johns Hopkins University asserts that it is now possible to begin to end the AIDS epidemic by widely and strategically applying existing tools.</p>
UCSF Leaders Play Key Role in "DC Declaration" to End Global AIDS Epidemic
<p>A declaration calling for global support to end the AIDS epidemic was announced on July 10 by the International AIDS Society, with key support from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).</p>
AIDS/HIV Briefing at UCSF Highlights International AIDS Conference Agenda
<p>The first U.S. meeting of the International AIDS Conference in more than two decades will be held later this month in Washington, DC, and Bay Area reporters got a preview of what UCSF researchers will present when they convene at the nation's capitol.</p>
Medi-Cal Expansion and Creation of Health Benefit Exchange Have Already Begun in California
<p>California is preparing to enact provisions of the Affordable Care Act by expanding Medi-Cal coverage and setting up a health benefit exchange. UCSF experts comment.</p>