HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine

Update: March 6, 2020

COVID-19 DIGEST

From the COVID-19 Infectious Diseases Task Force from the ID Divisions at UCSF, ZSFG and VA

With the leadership of ID specialists across all UCSF campuses, Diane Havlir, MD and Brian Schwartz, MD have established a task force to provide education, communication and research updates  that will be complimentary and integrated with Hospital, city (San Francisco DPH), state, national and global efforts and hands on guidelines.

We will be providing weekly digests with up-to-date information assessed by our ID specialists. Please see below for our first COVID-19 digest, produced on March 3, 2020.

Teri Liegler, PhD, devoted her career to promoting science.  

Monica Gandhi and Diane Havlir were featured in a SF Chronicle article describing how the AIDS epidemic has informed the response of the medical community to COVID-19.

Annie Luetkemeyer was among a panel of doctors interviewed in a SF Chronicle article regarding their work in understanding COVID-19 and their efforts towards developing a treatment.

Lisa Winston was featured in a 

Getting to Zero San Francisco--the citywide collaboration co-founded by Diane Havlir, MD--was featured in the in the Lancet article, “Aiming to end San Francisco’s HIV epidemic,” for efforts to end San Francisco’s HIV epidemic. Read more.

Previous infections with dengue virus may have protected some people in an urban slum in Brazil from getting Zika.

In a study of more than 1,400 people in the Pau da Lima area of Salvador, those with higher levels of antibodies against a particular dengue virus protein were at lower risk of contracting Zika, researchers report in the Feb. 8 Science.