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Thirty-five years after its launch, Ward 86 continues to be a global leader in HIV care. Driven by the research of its providers – all UCSF faculty – the clinic has significantly influenced milestones of HIV care and prevention, including the development of antiretroviral therapy in the mid-1990s – which transformed HIV from a fatal disease to a chronic illness—and the implementation of PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), a daily pill to prevent HIV acquisition.

Division Chief Diane Havlir, MD, and Joe Hollendoner of San Francisco AIDS Foundation think San Francisco could be the first major city to end the HIV epidemic -- but not without housing. Read the San Francisco Chronicle op-ed.

The 23^rd International AIDS conference, AIDS2020, is returning to the Bay Area for the first time in 30 years. The meeting attracts 15,000 or more people from around the world and will be held in July of 2020 in San Francisco and Oakland. The San Francisco co-chair will be Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, UCSF professor of medicine and Medical Director of Ward 86. Read the full story.

Aggressive efforts to end transmission of HIV are paying off in San Francisco, where public health officials are reporting record-low new cases, and the city is far outpacing national trends that show much narrower declines, reports Erin Allday of the San Francisco Chronicle. The story highlights the efforts of Getting to Zero and Ward 86, UCSF's HIV clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Read the full story.

Treatment with antiretroviral drugs can suppress the HIV virus, but only if people who are infected can access and stay on treatment, a multi-state study co-led by investigator, Katerina Christopolous, MD, has found.

On the eve of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, global and local leaders—including Ban Ki-moon, Mary Robinson, Ricardo Lagos and Eric Goosby, MD—gathered with community members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) to discuss universal health care in California and beyond.