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AIDS/HIV: Past, Present, and Future
by UCTV
From the history and spread of HIV/AIDS to the most recent treatments and prevention strategies, the University of California doctors and researchers are accelerating the progress towards prevention and cure.
Episodes
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Moving HIV Interventions into the Right Places: HIV Self-testing and Geographic Mobility Among Sexual Minority Men
Dr. Susan Cassels, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at UC Santa Barbara, and a research associate with the Broom Center for Demography discusses the latest thinking on HIV interventions. Her research focuses on the study of topics related to health geography, demography, and...
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End-of-Life HIV Research - Exploring Ethics
The Last Gift study aims to understand where and how HIV hides in the human body when a person with HIV is taking HIV medications. The Last Gift study tackles these aims by studying people with HIV who are terminally ill from a disease other than HIV, like cancer, ALS, or heart disease. The study...
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TransPrEP! HIV Prevention for Transgender Persons in California
The California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) is funding the largest demonstration project of its kind in the US, to determine the acceptability, utilization, adherence, and pharmacokinetics of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication among transgender persons to promote their health and...
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Dr. Paul Volberding - A Life in Medicine: People Shaping Healthcare Today
Dr. Paul Volberding, professor of medicine at UCSF, was perhaps the leading clinician in the United States in the early days of the HIV epidemic. As a young oncologist finishing his training in the early 1980's, Volberding recalls seeing a young gay man with a previously rare tumor: Kaposi's...
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Sensing Light with Dr. Mark Jacobson
UCSF Professor Emeritus Dr. Mark Jacobson is interviewed by Dr. Susa Coffey about his novel "Sensing Light." The book focuses on the HIV/AIDS outbreak from the perspective of the medical professionals who found themselves on the front lines trying to treat this horrific new disease. From the…
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The Intersection of Behavior and Mental Health Through the Lens of Inflammation HIV Alzheimer's Disease and More with Igor Grant - On Our Mind
Igor Grant, MD, FRCP(C) pursues research that addresses real world behavioral problems. Studying the intersection of drugs of abuse (primarily methamphetamine) and infection, his work sheds light on the basic mechanisms of injury for people with HIV. He examines inflammation in the context of...
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Diane Havlir: SEARCHing for the End of AIDS
A profile of Diane Havlir, MD and her work in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic, from co-founding the much admired Getting to Zero consortium in San Francisco to her Sustainable East African Research on Community Health (SEARCH) study in a fishing village in Kenya. Both efforts include the three…
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Drug Decriminalization and Tijuana’s AIDS Epidemic with Sir Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson joins UC San Diego’s Steffanie Strathdee, Patricia Gonzalez-Zuniga, MD, and author Jon Cohen for a discussion on the costs of criminalizing drug use on marginalized communities in Tijuana and elsewhere. Series: "HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana" [Public Affairs] [Health and...
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Postcard From The Trenches: Tijuana’s Hidden Epidemics of HIV and Tuberculosis with Steffanie Strathdee -- Degrees of Health and Well-Being
Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee of UC San Diego shares stories of her global health team’s intervention efforts that have helped curb the spread of HIV and tuberculosis in Tijuana and other poor regions in the world. Series: "HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana" [Public Affairs] [Health and...
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Stem Cell Sound Bites: HIV/AIDS
John Zaia of City of Hope describe his CIRM Disease Team grant to bring a stem cell-based HIV treatment to clinical trials. Series: "California Institute for Regenerative Medicine" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 25754]
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Personalized Medicine Big Data and Innovating to Improve HIV Care with Jeffrey Crowley -- Exploring Ethics
HIV-related stigma and discrimination are alive and well. Despite civil rights laws and protections related to the disclosure of protected health information, people with HIV often worry about their status being disclosed and when that happens, it can cause serious harm. At the same time…
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El Bordo -- HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana - Episode 1
In the first of a four-part series, UC San Diego epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and psychologist Tom Patterson start the story of how their research teams have traced the spread of HIV in Tijuana. It opens at a wound clinic in El Bordo, the section of the Tijuana River Canal where migrants…
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The Clinics at Prevencasa -- HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana Episode 2
In the second of a four-part series based on “Tomorrow Is a Long Time: Tijuana’s Unchecked HIV/AIDS Epidemic,” Dr. Jose Luis Burgos guides medical students from UC San Diego and Universidad Autónoma de Baja California as they offer free health care at HFiT, the Health Frontiers in Tijuana clinic…
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Living with VIH/SIDA: Tijuana Stories -- HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana Episode 3
In the third of a four-part series, photographer Malcolm Linton and writer Jon Cohen tell the stories of Victor, Fernanda, Sergio, Susi, Nelly and others living with HIV who are featured in their photo essay book, “Tomorrow Is a Long Time: Tijuana’s Unchecked HIV/AIDS Epidemic.” Linton and Cohen...
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Ending AIDS -- HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana - Episode 4
In the final installment of the series based on “Tomorrow Is a Long Time: Tijuana’s Unchecked HIV/AIDS Epidemic,” writer Jon Cohen explores what it would take to end the AIDS epidemic in Tijuana by 2030, as called for by UNAIDS. Dr. Davey Smith of UC San Diego argues for aggressive, frequent HIV...
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HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana
The four-part HIV/SIDA series follows UC San Diego epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee, psychologist Tom Patterson and their binational team of doctors, researchers, medical students and outreach workers as they document the spread of HIV in Tijuana. Starting at El Bordo in the Tijuana River Canal...
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Why What You Know About Protecting Privacy Might Be Wrong with Staal Vinterbo -- Exploring Ethics
Staal Vinterbo, a professor in biomedical informatics at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, shows how privacy is routinely violated online and suggests new ways to guard sensitive personal information. He also presents an example of a state-of-the-art privacy protection technique and how it…
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Town Hall: HIV Cure Research
Although antiretroviral therapy has dramatically extended the life of HIV infected individuals, the life-long daily regimen of pills is not a cure. The drugs' side effects lead to various complications such as increased incidence of heart disease and cancer that significantly reduces lifespans....
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Town Hall: HIV Cure Research Panel Discussion
On October 1st, 2013 CIRM, the AIDS Research Institute, and the Gladstone Institutes sponsored an informative, interactive Town Hall forum on HIV cure research in San Francisco's State Building. The event included a panel discussion by a distinguished lineup of scientists, clinicians, and…
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Preventing HIV By Understanding Patterns of Transmission with Susan Little MD -- Exploring Ethics
Dr. Susan Little of UC San Diego School of Medicine presents her research that tracks HIV infection by rapidly obtaining genetic information from those engaged in HIV healthcare. A discussion follows on privacy protections, the risks associated with the use of these data and their potential to...
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Response to Global HIV and HCV Epidemic
Three global health experts - Gregg Alton JD, Executive Vice President, Gilead; Ambassador Eric Goosby MD: Global Health Science, UCSF; and Stefano Bertozzi MD PhD, Dean, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley - discuss the role and responsibilities of public and private organizations in the…
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Global HIV/AIDS at the Crossroads: Where Do We Go From Here?
Explore the current state of global HIV/AIDS. Panelists discuss what progress has been made in fighting this global epidemic, how research findings are being translated into improved clinical outcomes, and how the Bay Area research community is working to address the questions that remain....
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PrEParing for HIV: An Epidemic Interventions Initiative by the University of California
A look at PrEP, a prevention strategy for people at high risk for contracting HIV. Researchers at the University of California explain how pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) works as they describe a four-year, multi-pronged study of men who have sex with men in Los Angeles and San Diego.…
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Update in HIV and Liver Transplant - The Nathan Bass UCSF Liver Transplant Fall 2013
Peter Stock, MD, PhD discusses current treatments for transplant patients with HIV. Series: "UCSF Transplant Update" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 27703]
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HIV Stigma: Personal Stories from Gay Men and Transgender Women in Peru -- A UCI GHREAT Initiative
In the final installment of a four-part series, UC Irvine Public Health professor Brandon Brown and others help members of Lima's gay and transgender community overcome the stigma of HIV and get access to healthcare. This is no small feat in Peru, long considered the most homophobic country in...
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HIV: Dare We Say Cure?
Dr. Peter Hunt on the immunology of HIV and Dr. Steven Deeks explores if an HIV cure is achievable. Series: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science for Everyone" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25129]
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HIV Hepatitis C and Treatment
Dr. George Beatty on HIV medications and Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer the current revolution in Hepatitis C treatment. Series: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science for Everyone" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25128]
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HIV: Focus on Women and Children
Dr. Monica Gandhi addresses the differences in treating men and women; Dr. Deborah Cohan discusses conceiving (or not) in the 21st century; and Dr. Theodore Ruel discusses children and HIV. Series: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science for Everyone" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25127]
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HIV: A Primer
Dr. Jay Levyan, an AIDS and cancer researcher at UCSF, discusses the discovery of HIV and its basic science. Then, Dr. C. Bradley Hare, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Medical Director, UCSF HIV/AIDS Division at San Francisco General Hospital, explores HIV and its diseases through…
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HIV Prevention and Global Health
Dr. Diane V. Havlir explores HIV, economics and global health and Dr. Oliver Bacon explores a new HIV prevention method called PrEP, in which people who do not have HIV take a daily pill to reduce their risk of becoming infected. Series: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science for…
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The History of HIV and Current Epidemic
Dr. Monica Gandhi, UCSF Division of HIV/AIDS, explains how and when HIV entered the human population and its current prevalence. Then Dr. Paul A. Volberding traces the history of HIV in San Francisco and current epidemiology of the disease. Series: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science...
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Hang-in and Have Smart Friends - The Road to HIV Resistance
Roger Detels, Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases at UCLA, discusses the work of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and the process of studying as well as preventing HIV infections. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 24887]
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HIV/AIDS and the Spirit of Uganda: Art Epidemic and Healing
in a timely consideration of the pandemic, Spirit of Uganda executive director Alexis Hefley joins UC Davis faculty member Moradwun Adejunmobi and others in examining HIV/AIDS from the global, cultural and medical perspectives. Series: "Mondavi Center Presents" [Health and Medicine] [Humanities]...
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Reflections of the First Fifty Years of the AIDS Epidemic
James Curran, MD, MPH, Emory University, presents on Reflections of the First 50 Years of the AIDS Epidemic. Series: "CFAR, UCSD Center for AIDS Research " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 13717]
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AIDS in Zimbabwe: Microcosm of the HIV Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa
The UCSD Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) presents a series of lectures from international experts on the latest worldwide HIV research. In this program, James Hakim, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe discusses AIDS in Zimbabwe, a microcosm of…
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