Archive: David Wofsy Shares Three Wishes in 2019 UCSF Last Lecture
The annual event is based on the question: “If you have but one lecture to give, what would you say?”
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Archive: 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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Archive: 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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Archive: For Women Living With HIV, A Trauma-Informed Approach To Care
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Archive: For Women Scientists in Developing Nations, UCSF Fellowship Builds Confidence and Connections
The first recipient of QBI's Scholarship for Women from Developing Nations in Biosciences returns to Uganda with tools for success.
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Archive: UCSF Celebrates 35 Years of HIV/AIDS Care at Ward 86
Thirty-five years after its launch, Ward 86 continues to be a global leader in HIV care and has significantly influenced milestones in treatment and prevention.
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Archive: 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.
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Archive: With Disease Agnostic Approach, QBI is Accelerating Ambitious Science
The Quantitative Biosciences Institute attracts investigators on the basis of the tools and techniques they employ, rather than the diseases they study.
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Archive: Major AIDS Conference returns to Bay Area After 30 Years
The 23rd International AIDS conference, AIDS2020, is returning to the Bay Area for the first time in 30 years, with leadership from UCSF and the International AIDS Society.
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Archive: In Choosing Care, HIV Patients in Zambia Prefer Kindness Over Convenience
Patients were hypothetically willing to increase wait time and travel distance—and accept significant reduction in medication—in order to access a healthcare provider with a nice attitude, according to a new survey.
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Archive: New Community-Based Approach to Testing and Treating HIV Improves Health in East Africa
Model to treat HIV in rural East Africa led to 20% fewer HIV deaths, reduced the incidence of HIV and TB, and improved control of hypertension and diabetes.
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Archive: AIDS Walk San Francisco: Dedicated UCSF Community Joins 2018 Event
About 250 UCSF staff, faculty, students and supporters came out on a cold and foggy morning in Golden Gate Park to raise funds in the annual AIDS Walk San Francisco event.
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Archive: Swift Gene-Editing Method May Revolutionize Treatments for Cancer and Infectious Diseases
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Archive: Hundreds March with UCSF in 2018 San Francisco Pride Parade
A rainbow-hued contingent from UCSF turned out for the 48th annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade.
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Archive: Opioid Crisis: This Doctor’s Street-Level Views Could Change the Course of the Epidemic
A staggering 64,000 people in the United States died in 2016 from drug overdoses – and a study led by UCSF’s Daniel Ciccarone is aiming to get at the heart of of the problem, including by interviewing opioid users.
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2018: A Drug Odyssey
The journey from discovering and developing effective, precise medications to using them correctly and safely in patients is hardly fast and easy. Nor is it a straight shot. Scientists in the UCSF School of Pharmacy are challenging the status quo every step of the way.
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Archive: UCSF Kicks Off Celebration of 35 Years of HIV/AIDS Care with AIDS Walk San Francisco
The UCSF community is participating in this year’s AIDS Walk San Francisco, which raises funds to benefit dozens of AIDS organizations in the Bay Area.
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Archive: San Francisco Mayor’s Proposal to Add $4.2M for HIV/AIDS Programs Supports ‘Getting to Zero’ Effort
Mayor Mark Farrell announced $4.2 million in additional funds for HIV/AIDS programs in San Francisco.
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Archive: UCSF HIVE Program Employee Honored by San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
Caroline Watson, who serves as the social justice and communications coordinator for UC San Francisco’s HIVE clinic and program, was one of two award winners of this year’s Heroes & Hearts Award, given out annually by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.
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Archive: HIV Begins to Yield Secrets of How It Hides in Cells
UCSF scientists have uncovered new mechanisms by which HIV hides in infected cells, resting in a latent state that evades the body’s immune system and preventing antiviral drugs from flushing it out.
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Archive: San Francisco Moves Toward Zero New HIV Infections with Help from UCSF
Much of San Francisco’s progress in fighting new HIV infections can likely be contributed to Getting to Zero – a citywide collaboration to end HIV transmission that was co-founded by UCSF.
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Archive: Amid Backdrop of Health Care Debate, UCSF Raises Funds at AIDS Walk San Francisco
As a national debate about health care continues, hundreds of staff, faculty, students and supporters of UCSF participated in AIDS Walk San Francisco to raise funds for research and care as well as to raise awareness of proposed legislation in Washington, D.C.
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Archive: Supervisor Jeff Sheehy Visits UCSF to Rally Community Around HIV/AIDS Funding
In his first visit back to UCSF since becoming a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Jeff Sheehy rallied the University community to join in fundraising for AIDS Walk San Francisco – especially as HIV funding is under attack at the federal level.
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Archive: In East Africa, Universal HIV Testing and Treatment Surpasses UNAIDS Goals
Community-based interventions for HIV testing and treatment in rural East Africa nearly doubled rates of HIV viral suppression over two years, according to a study by UC San Francisco researchers.
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Archive: Moving Mountains: A Surgeon’s Fight to Legalize HIV-to-HIV Organ Transplants
Through years of research and advocacy, Peter Stock, a transplant surgeon at UCSF, helped clear the way for California’s first organ transplants from an HIV-positive donor to HIV-positive recipients.
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Archive: Vaccines of the future could be as contagious as viruses
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Archive: UCSF Rallies Community to Raise $200K in AIDS Walk San Francisco
With more than 10 teams already formed, UCSF is looking to beat last year’s fundraising total by raising $200,000 in AIDS Walk San Francisco.
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Archive: Diane Havlir on Nearing the End of HIV/AIDS
Since her days as a physician trainee, Diane Havlir, now Chief of the HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine Division at UCSF, has continued the crusade to end AIDS. She spoke about global HIV elimination at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health Conference in San Diego on May 2.
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Archive: As HIV landscape shifts, move to rethink laws on transmission
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Archive: San Francisco doctor shares experience at beginning of AIDS crisis