HIVE in the Media
HuffPo: Making PrEP Possible for Women
Three-and-a-half years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the HIV treatment drug Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP for HIV prevention. It was a landmark moment in the decades-long effort to halt HIV transmission. This pill, when taken daily by an HIV-negative person, reduces the likelihood of acquiring HIV by more than 90 percent.
San Francisco HIV experts: What did you learn at CROI 2016?
BETA wanted to distill some of these important findings by asking some prominent San Francisco Bay Area providers to give us their take on the conference. We asked, “What did you find interesting? What did you find exciting? And, what did you learn?”
KCBS In Depth: Healing
KCBS’ Jane McMillan talks with Dr. Deborah Cohan, obstetrician and gynecologist, who runs the UCSF Perinatal HIV Clinic and is Medical Director of HIVE, the Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center at SF General.
BlogTalkRadio: Role of TasP in HIV Prevention
Learn about the roles of PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), PEP (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis), TasP (Treatment as Prevention), male and female condoms, and more.
With PrEP from San Francisco
“We look at the scale-up of PrEP in San Francisco in the United States of America (USA), where comprehensive PrEP services are already changing lives and the shape of the epidemic.”
Positively Aware: The PrEP Issue
“…having HIV, or having a partner living with HIV, shouldn’t change our opinions about who has the right to have a child.”
“What Preventing HIV in Babies Can Tell Us about Preventing HIV in Adults”
“But I think to myself, well, that’s our problem. That’s a fixable problem. We need to create a story about inclusion, about what’s possible. That’s just as important as the work to get the science to make it possible.”
HuffPo: Ending Sexual HIV Transmission: Lessons Learned from Perinatal HIV
In 1991, during the peak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, 1650 babies were born with HIV in the United States. By 2010, that number had declined to 162.
Shannon Weber Featured on Love Letters Live
“Shannon’s enthusiasm for the well-being of others has helped build healthy and loving families in more ways than one.”
Truvada may change the game for women trying to get pregnant by HIV positive partners
Doc’s prescription: Dance to heal
Cohan-SFChronicle-2.23.2015
Family-Building and Fertility Options for Those Living with HIV
BAPAC KCBS radio HIV Dads #1 (MP3) 2013.01.27
http://www.hiveonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kcbs_hiv_dads-1_2013.01.27.mp3
BAPAC KCBS radio HIV Dads #2 (MP3) 2013.01.27
http://www.hiveonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kcbs_hiv_dads-2_2013.01.27.mp3
BAPAC California Report 2013.02.15 (MP3)
http://www.hiveonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/calreport2013.02.15.mp3
BAPAC SF Chronicle 2013.02.07 (PDF)
BAPAC California Report 2013.02.15 (PDF)
Mixed-Status HIV Couples Weigh Risks
Expanding Reproductive Health Options for HIV-Affected Individuals: It’s Time
HIV Drug Divides Gay Community
HuffPo: Embracing the Reproductive Rights of HIV-affected Couples: It’s Time
Witnessing someone’s dream come true is a gift. I once joined a couple and their baby. As the parents ate their salad amongst the bustle of San Francisco’s financial district lunch crowd and took turns holding the baby, I looked around wishing everyone could perceive this great love. I wondered what it is like to be this child — to grow up having been so wanted, so planned for, so desired.
