AIDS Office—HIV Prevention section
What We Do
For more than twenty years, community members and local organizations
have partnered with the San Francisco Department of Public Health to
design and deliver effective HIV prevention services. These collaborations
have been so successful that across the nation, this type of public-private
partnership for prevention is called the San Francisco Model.
Effective HIV prevention is sex-positive and built on the knowledge of those most affected by HIV. Because everyone is different, we work to reduce harm in a manner and pace appropriate to individuals and their communities. We believe that to achieve optimal Health services, we must include all the diversity that makes San Francisco such a vibrant city.
We are committed to engaging you as a partner in leadership as we collectively assume the responsibility for ending the HIV epidemic. We encourage you to use our website to exchange information, best practices, community needs, and emerging concerns. We are all in this together, and your active participation will insure the continuation of our San Francsico Model.
Our Mission
Our Mission is to reduce HIV infection through promoting health and enabling individuals and communities to increase control over conditions affecting their health. In 2004, we implemented some challenging, but (we think) achievable goals. By the end of 2008 our goals are to:
- Reduce new HIV infections among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) and male-to-female transgendered persons by 50%
- Reduce new HIV infections among injection drug users by 50%
- Eliminate new infections among women, and men who have sex exclusively with women
- Eliminate perinatal infections
Internships
HIV Prevention Services welcomes interns to help us achieve
our goal of ending the HIV epidemic in San Francisco. If you are interested
in becoming a San Francisco Department of Public Health—HIV Prevention
Section intern, please contact Betty Chan Lew at
(415) 554-9492 or at Betty.Lew@sfdph.org.