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Doxycycline After Unprotected Sex Significantly Reduced STIs
A significant proportion of bacterial sexually transmitted infections – gonorrhea, chlamydia, or syphilis – were prevented with a dose of doxycycline after unprotected sex, according to preliminary results of a clinical trial.
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Treating Anal Cancer Precursor Lesions Reduces Cancer Risk for People With HIV
A groundbreaking national study led by UCSF finds that treating anal cancer precursor lesions reduces cancer risk for people with HIV.
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Arthur Ammann, UCSF Doctor Who Discovered AIDS Virus in Infants, Dies at 85
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Faster Test Results Mean Better Outcomes For HIV Patients
Scientists at UCSF and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda have developed an intervention that makes use of a portable laboratory testing technology to help HIV providers order, process, and receive HIV viral load results quickly, and shorten the time it takes for patients to get their results.
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Sudden Cardiac Death More Likely to Fell Persons with HIV Infection
Individuals with HIV are more than twice as likely to die from sudden cardiac death (SCD) compared to the general population, and more likely to have hearts compromised by fibrosis, a factor that may play a role in increasing their susceptibility to SCD, according to new findings from a UCSF study.
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AIDS at 40: Parallels of Living Through AIDS, Surviving COVID-19
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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AIDS at 40: How HIV and COVID-19 Are Informing Our Responses to Both Pandemics
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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40 Years of AIDS in SF
In 1981, a mysterious illness began overwhelming the San Francisco community. Since those early days of the epidemic, UCSF has steadfastly been at the forefront of patient care, research and community partnerships in the battle against HIV and AIDS.
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AIDS at 40: HIV Prepared Oral Health Settings for COVID-19 Safety Measures
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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AIDS at 40: Co-Discoverer of HIV on Being Ready for the Next Pandemic
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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AIDS at 40: Sexism, Structural Racism and Discrimination Continues for HIV and COVID-19
This is one of the first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19.
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AIDS at 40: ‘Those Our Nation Values Least, Suffer Most’
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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AIDS at 40: Forty Years of One Pandemic and Then Another
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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40 Years of AIDS: A Timeline of the Epidemic
Over the past four decades, UCSF has led the way in its heroic response to the AIDS epidemic, both locally and globally. This timeline covers some of the highlights at UCSF, in the nation and around the world after a mysterious disease affecting gay men was first reported on June 5, 1981.
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Viruses Mutate, But Treatments Are Static. Is There a Way to Change That?
There is a big, global problem: viruses such as HIV and COVID-19 mutate, but treatments for them don’t.
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Staring Down the Stigma of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Works Better Than Daily Pill in Women
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Large Bay Area Blood Bank Still Turning Away Gay Bisexual Men Who Meet US Rules
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We Must Learn from Our Past
A look at past outbreaks offers guidance on bringing the current one to an end – and on thwarting the next one.
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How San Francisco’s AIDS Epidemic Response Prepared the City for COVID-19
In 2020, as the world faces another new virus stoking fear and uncertainty, San Francisco may be uniquely up to the challenge. Strong ties between UCSF, local government agencies and community groups, forged in the fire of the AIDS epidemic, and a deep bench of infectious disease expertise, has helped the city flatten the curve and better understand this new disease.
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International AIDS Conference Returns to SF, Overshadowed by a New Pandemic
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How SF Battle With HIV/AIDS Shaped Today's Coronavirus Response
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The Infectious Diseases on the Rise – and on the Way Out
Infections that plagued the world for centuries (malaria, HIV/AIDS) are on the verge of eradication. Others threaten to disrupt human lives and economies more than ever before.
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HIV Significantly Increases Risk for Irregular Heartbeat
HIV infection significantly increases the risk of atrial fibrillation.
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Living With HIV
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Psychedelics, long ignored by scientists, seeing resurgence in medical research
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Where HIV Treatment is Failing the Homeless in San Francisco, A New Clinic Steps In
It’s been decades since San Francisco was ground zero for the AIDS epidemic, but for one population, it still is.
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UCSF Fellow Tackles an Urgent Threat to Women's Health in Kenya
Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, is committed to tackling the public health effects of gender inequality and helping to improve cervical cancer screening in Kenya.
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What’s So Controversial About the First Gene-Edited Babies? Experts Explain
UCSF experts in gene editing and bioethics weigh in on the news of Chinese researcher He Jiankui’s announcement of the birth of the first babies who had their DNA edited as embryos.
