A-Z List of ARI Programs Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group (AACTG) AIDS Action Network (UCSF student AIDS advocacy group) AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR) AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) National Resource Center AIDS Health Project AIDS Policy Research Center AIDS Research Institute at UCSF Laboratory of Clinical Virology AIDS Specimen Bank

ASPIRE (AIDS Services—Prevention, Interventions, Research, and Education) Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center (BAPAC) Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) Center for HIV Information (CHI) Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS Community Consortium Craik Laboratory Drug Research Unit at San Francisco General Hospital FACES (Family AIDS Care and Education Services) Family Treatment Fund Francis J. Curry National TB Center General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) at SFGH Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology HIV InSite Institute for Global Health Intl Center of HIV/AIDS Research & Clinical Training in Nursing International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) Laboratory for Molecular Pathogenesis Laboratory of Raul Andino Laboratory of Tumor and AIDS Virus Research Moffitt/Mt. Zion General Clinical Research Genter (GCRC) National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center (NCCC) Options Project Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC) Pediatric Clinical Research Center Positive Health Program at SFGH Positive Health Program Education Unit San Francisco Area (UCSF) AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) San Francisco Department of Public Health, AIDS Office San Francisco Department of Public Health, HIV Research Section 360: The Positive Care Center at UCSF UCSF Global Health Sciences UCSF Nursing HIV/AIDS Center UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Women's Global Health Imperative Women's HIV Interdisciplinary Network Women's HIV Program at UCSF Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)

news & events

NIH Doubles Support for Vital HIV/AIDS Research Center

The National Institutes of Health will award $15 million over the next five years to the Center for AIDS Research of UCSF and the Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology to continue its pioneering translational research—a doubling of its previous five-year award. UCSF News Release. PDF (November 1, 2007)

NIH Grant Supports UCSF Research Exploring Early HIV Infection

A team led by researchers at the UCSF Positive Health Program has been named to receive $15 million over five years to expand understanding of the complex interactions between HIV and the immune systems of newly infected patients following HIV transmission. UCSF News Release. PDF (October 8, 2007)

Ban of Use of Sperm from HIV-Positive Men under Review: Bill Pending to Let Fertility Clinics Use "Washed" Specimens

By Greg Lucas, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bureau
Dan Hartmann, a 32-year-old Oakland graphic artist, met his wife Susan six years ago, and like many couples they decided they wanted to start a family. There's a complication: A blood transfusion 20 years ago left Hartmann HIV-positive. Full story in the San Francisco Chronicle. (March 27, 2007)
Related story. (March 29, 2007)

Bill Would Let Men with HIV Use Reproduction Techniques: Lawmaker Wants to Lift Ban on Using Fertility Services

By Mike Zapler, San Jose Mercury News, Sacramento Bureau
In 1989, California began barring people with HIV from donating sperm, blood or tissue.…But in recent years the law has had an unintended effect. It prevents men who are HIV positive from taking advantage of reproductive medical services—treatment that would ensure the lowest risk of spreading the virus to their partner. Full story in the San Jose Mercury News. (March 6, 2007)

S.F. Scientists Find Way to Halt Malaria in Kids

By Sabin Russell, San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco and African AIDS researchers reported Tuesday that they had virtually eliminated malaria in a group of highly vulnerable, HIV-infected children simply by providing them with a daily dose of antibiotic and having them sleep under an insecticide-treated mosquito net. Full story. (February 28, 2007)
Related story by Lawrence Altman in the New York Times. (March 1, 2007)

Emerging Drugs Show Promise Against HIV

By Marilyn Chase and Jacob Goldstein, Wall Street Journal
After a dearth of new drugs for people infected with HIV, this year promises a bumper crop of medicines that may help combat rising resistance to older therapies. Full story. PDF (February 28, 2007)

Research Supports Medicinal Marijuana

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post
AIDS patients suffering from debilitating nerve pain got as much or more relief by smoking marijuana as they would typically get from prescription drugs—and with fewer side effects—according to a study conducted under rigorously controlled conditions. Full story in the Washington Post. (February 13, 2007)
UCSF news release. (February 12, 2007)

Hopes for an AIDS Cure Remain Alive

By E.J. Mundell, Washington Post HealthDay
In the hide-and-seek game played out between scientists and HIV over the last 25 years, the virus has so far been winning. Full story in the Washington Post. (January 4, 2007)

AIDS Drug Offers Hope, but Too Late for One Man

By James Ricci, Los Angeles Times
2006 was destined to be the year Warren Ratcliffe lost his desperate race to survive AIDS, and the year Mark McClelland appeared, finally, poised to win his. Full story in the Los Angeles Times. (January 2, 2007)