A-Z List of ARI Programs Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) AIDS Action Network (UCSF student AIDS advocacy group) AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR) AIDS Biology Program of the Division of Experimental Medicine AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) National Resource Center AIDS Malignancy Consortium AIDS Policy Research Center AIDS Specimen Bank Alliance Health Project 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) UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Center for Health Improvement and Prevention Studies (CHIPS) Center for HIV Information (CHI) Center of Excellence for Transgender Health Clinical Research Services Cochrane Review Group on HIV/AIDS Community Consortium Craik Laboratory Curry International TB Center Drug Research Unit at San Francisco General Hospital FACES (Family AIDS Care and Education Services) Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology Global Health Sciences HERO (Healthcare Evaluation Record Organizer) HIV InSite International Center of HIV/AIDS Research & Clinical Training in Nursing International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) Junior Faculty AIDS Researchers ARI Laboratory of Clinical Virology Laboratory of Matija Peterlin Laboratory of Raul Andino Levy Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center (NCCC) Nursing HIV/AIDS Center Options Project Oral AIDS Center Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC) Positive Health Program–HIV/AIDS Division at SFGH Positive Health Program Education Unit Prevention and Public Health Group San Francisco Area AIDS Education and Training Center (SFAETC) San Francisco Department of Public Health, HIV Prevention Section San Francisco Department of Public Health, Bridge HIV San Francisco Department of Public Health, HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Section SCOPE Cohort 360: The Positive Care Center at UCSF Women's HIV Interdisciplinary Network Women's HIV Program at UCSF Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)

news & events

Targeted Drugs to Tackle Hepatitis C, but Experts Debate US Screening Recommendations

By Lisa Cisneros, UCSF
UC San Francisco, a frequent high-performing team at AIDS Walk San Francisco, will again for the gold – the honor given to the top fundraising organizations participating in the annual event.. Full story in UCSF (May 13, 2013)

Targeted Drugs to Tackle Hepatitis C, but Experts Debate US Screening Recommendations

By Beth Mole, Nature
Better drugs are on the way. But the possibility of improved treatment is intensifying a debate about whether to screen a broad swathe of the US population for hepatitis C. Full story in Nature (May 1, 2013)

"Cured of AIDS"? Not Yet

By Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times
What to make of all the recent “cured of AIDS” headlines? An American in Berlin, a baby in Mississippi and 14 patients in France are all alive without treatment. Is a cure at hand? Full story in New York Times (April 29, 2013)

Possible Path to Vaccine for AIDS Is Suggested

By Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times
American researchers have minutely tracked one person's powerful immune response to the virus to see how a series of mutations led to an antibody that can defeat many HIV strains. Full story in New York Times (April 3, 2013)

Cautious about HIV "Cure"

By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle
It was stunning news this month when a team of researchers announced at an AIDS conference that a Mississippi toddler had been cured of HIV. But it wasn't long before doctors and scientists began to have doubts about her case. Full story in SF Chronicle (March 27, 2013)

UCSF Ranked among Top Medical Schools in Nation by U.S. News

UC San Francisco's School of Medicine ranked fourth nationwide in both research and primary care education this year, according to a new survey...UCSF ranked first for its medical program in AIDS. Full story on USCF News (March 12, 2013)

HIV Testing Increased and Infection Reduced in Africa with Community Intervention

Community intervention with free mobile HIV testing and counseling, same-day results and post-test support led to a 14% reduction in new HIV infections in targeted communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Full story in UCSF News (March 5, 2013)

In Medical First, a Baby with HIV Is Deemed Cured

By Andrew Pollack and Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times
Doctors announced on Sunday that a baby had been cured of an HIV infection for the first time, a startling development that could change how infected newborns are treated. Full story in New York Times (March 3, 2013)
Related story, KQED (March 4, 2013)
Related story, KQED (March 5, 2013)

Zeroing In on HIV

By Martha Ross
Adam Carrico...researches ways to promote behavior change among a marginalized, underserved population: HIV-positive gay and bisexual men who are also caught up in the "intertwined" epidemic of methamphetamine use. Full story in UCSF Science of Caring (March 2013)

How Men with HIV Can Safely Become Dads

By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle
The program, called Positive Reproductive Outcomes for Men, offers reproductive counseling and care to heterosexual couples and straight men who are HIV positive. Full story in SF Chronicle (February 7, 2013)
Related story, The California Report (February 15, 2013)
Related story, KQED (February 15, 2013)