Full Report

Full Report Insights from Drug Checking Programs: Practicing Bootstrap Public Health Whilst Tailoring to Local Drug User Needs June 8, 2023 Drug checking allows individuals to learn the composition of their drugs prior to use, and is being offered as a way to avert overdose while also providing low-barrier opportunities to connect people to harm […]

Full Report Risk of Criminalization Among Sex Workers Carrying Condoms June 7, 2023 People who engage in sex work (PESW) are particularly vulnerable to criminalization even when seeking to report experiencing victimization. The health and safety of those engaged in sex work is further jeopardized as condoms have been historically used as evidence of sex […]

Full Report Improving Access to Essential Prevention Services: The Opportunities and Challenges of Expanding the Role of California’s Pharmacists March 7, 2023 A new study from the California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Centers, in collaboration with the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy, Birth Control Pharmacist, and the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists, finds that […]

Full Report Addressing mpox disparities among MSM in Los Angeles County December 22, 2022 In the ongoing mpox (monkeypox) outbreak of 2022, California is the state with the highest number of cases and Los Angeles County (LAC) has the highest number of reported cases in the state. As of December 9, 2022, 2,245 confirmed mpox […]

Full Report A Decade of PrEP: Overcoming Access Barriers in the U.S. Through Expanded Delivery December 22, 2022 A decade after the FDA approved PrEP for HIV prevention, PrEP is still not accessible to all Americans who might benefit from this HIV prevention strategy. In this policy brief, we describe opportunities for expanded PrEP access. […]

Full Report PrEP Access in the United States: The Role of Telehealth May 3, 2022 Disparities in uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) exist along racial, ethnic, and gender lines. The use of telehealth to provide PrEP and associated services (“tele-PrEP”) is a trend that began before the COVID-19 pandemic, but we find it has increased […]

Full Report Interventions to build capacity of the HIV healthcare workforce: Lessons learned from practice transformation projects in California October 30, 2019 The HIV care workforce is facing a shortage of providers. This guide provides an overview of two safety-net clinics in California that aimed to improve HIV care workforce capacity and patient access to […]

Full Report Tobacco Use among Sexual and Gender Minorities and People Living with HIV in California September 10, 2018 Recent trends suggest that declines in California’s adult tobacco use rates have stalled in the last few years, which has serious implications for reversing the substantial progress made in California to reduce tobacco-related diseases. Sexual and gender […]

Full Report HIV Criminalization and Sex Work in California October 13, 2017 The vast majority of all HIV-specific criminal incidents in California involve people engaged in sex work or those suspected of engaging in sex work. A new report finds that women—and Black women, in particular—are the most disproportionately impacted by California’s sex work laws, […]

Full Report The Affordable Housing Crisis: Impact on People Living with HIV in CA August 3, 2017 Access to stable affordable housing is a critical component of treatment and care for people living with HIV (PLWH), as well as a successful method of preventing new infections. Federally-funded housing programs provide housing subsidies and supportive services; […]