HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine

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.