Year: 2020

Meeting Proceedings Improving HIV, HCV, STD, and Harm Reduction Services in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond December 21, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant disruptions in California’s efforts to expand and improve services for HIV, hepatitis C, sexually transmitted diseases, and harm reduction. On November 18, 2020, the California HIV/AIDS Policy Research …

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Policy Brief Gaps in COVID-19 Race/Ethnicity Data in California December 20, 2020 The spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been accompanied by troubling disparities in infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. This issue brief underscores lessons from the HIV/AIDS epidemic, outlining the need for comprehensive data to design and carry out appropriate mitigation measures. It draws comparisons to the …

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Policy Brief Interventions to Combat the Infectious Disease Ramifications of the U.S. Opioid Crisis June 20, 2020 In the second of a two-part series, we explore the impact of the opioid epidemic on HIV and other health conditions in California and Nevada. Downstream consequences of the U.S. opioid epidemic, including the many lives left in …

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Fact sheet PrEP Hoy y Mañana: Bajo demanda, Inyecciones y Tópicos March 20, 2020 Download Authors Ian W. Holloway Ayako Miyashita Ochoa Craig Pulsipher Matthew R. Beymer Heliud Garcia Raphael J. Landovitz PrEP Oral Diario Usando TDF/FTC La Profilaxis Pre-exposición (PrEP, siglas en inglés) es una estrategia de prevención del VIH muy eficaz en la …

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Fact sheet PrEP Today and Tomorrow: On-Demand, Injections and Topicals March 20, 2020 Given the low uptake of daily oral PrEP, exploration of safe alternative agents (e.g. medications) and alternative modalities to deliver PrEP (e.g. alternative dosing, injectables, topical agents, and long-acting treatment) are integral to address PrEP disparities moving forward. The purpose of this …

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Manuscript Documenting best practices for maintaining access to HIV prevention, care and treatment in an era of shifting immigration policy and discourse February 28, 2020 Changes in the United States federal-level political landscape have been felt within immigrant communities, and the public health clinics that serve them. We sought to document how HIV prevention and …

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Policy Brief Homelessness and HIV in Alameda County February 13, 2020 Housing has a major influence on health outcomes. The link between housing and health is of heightened concern in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Alameda County, because of a growing housing crisis. There is currently a shortfall of almost 60,000 affordable homes in …

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