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The Support Academic Futures & Educators for Today’s Youth (SAFETY) Act prohibits school boards from requiring the forced outing of LGBTQA+ youth in school settings. Critical protections includes newly passed SAFETY Act and others established rights under U.S. and California law.

March 20 is the National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The observance is a national effort to encourage American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians across the United States to get educated, tested, involved in prevention and get HIV treatment.

There were 4,444 HIV diagnosis in California in 2021. Of those, 12% were among women. Black/African American and Latinx are disproportionately impacted.

This is a study of mental health experiences and harm perceptions of cigarettes among current menthol cigarette smokers, stratified by gender. This highlights racial/ethnic and gender disparities among menthol cigarette smokers.

Infographic highlighting some of the results from the 2022 California Pharmacist Survey. Pharmacists were asked about their furnishing of naloxone and syringe without an outside provider’s prescription. Includes some policy implications.

This publication is phase II of an audit or “secret shopper” study that sought to characterize current access to smoking cessation services in Central and Northern California HIV safety nets and to identify potential strategies for increasing access. Phase I assessed cessation services in Southern California HIV safety nets. Findings from Phase I and Phase […]

A new CHPRC analysis reveals California pharmacists’ preferences for implementing pharmacist-initiated PrEP for HIV prevention under Senate Bill 159. In a discrete choice experiment, pharmacists preferred implementation scenarios in which they play an active role in the PrEP provision process. However, their preferences around pharmacy workflow suggest that integrating new services requires increased workforce capacity.

Supervised consumption sites (SCS) are harm reduction programs in which people who inject drugs (PWID) bring their previously obtained drugs to consume in a supervised setting. We modeled the potential impact of SCS implementation on HIV and HCV incidence among PWID in three California counties: San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego and found that […]

Employer coverage for PrEP is at risk—proposed legislation in California seeks to preserve and extend coverage for PrEP and other preventative care. Learn more about the Texas case Braidwood Management v. Becerra and what California Assembly Bill 1645 will do to address health coverage gaps.

Black women with HIV experience mental health outcomes at higher rates than women without HIV. In commemoration of Bebe Moore Campbell National Mental Health (BIPOC) Awareness Month, this infographic overview statistics that highlight mental health disparities among Black women in California.