HIV Prevention Revolution – Hype or Hope?

UCSF Professor and HIV expert Dr. Diane Havlir will host a conversation with Dr. Susan Buchbinder and Dr. Hyman Scott on the latest developments in HIV prevention and how these are being affected by new US policies. San Francisco has led the world in research and implementation of HIV prevention interventions since the start of the HIV pandemic. Although San Francisco has seen great reductions in new cases of HIV, there are still hundreds of persons with newly diagnosed HIV in San Francisco every year, and millions around the world. We now have new and better products for HIV prevention as a result of strategic Investments in science. The question now is: What is possible to achieve in the HIV epidemic at this juncture in time?

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Dr. Susan Buchbinder is the Director of Bridge HIV, a research unit for HIV and STI prevention at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She is a world- renowned researcher in HIV prevention and vaccines. She is a physician and a professor at UCSF.

Dr. Hyman Scott, is the Medical Director the Magnet Sexual Health Clinic in the Castro. He is an active researcher in HIV and sexual transmitted infection prevention, a practicing physician and on the faculty at UCSF.

Dr. Diane Havlir is a Professor and Chief of HIV, ID and Global Medicine and the Director of the AIDS Research Institute. Her HIV research locally and globally has changed HIV practice. She plays an active role in guidance from the United Nations AIDS and the World Health Organization. She is also a practicing clinician at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

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