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Health Commission hears Getting to 0 and STD updates; CDC and private grants expand PrEP and retention work
Summary
Officials reported progress toward Getting to 0, described a new $1.9 million-per-year CDC grant for PrEP scale-up and a $500,000 grant for retention navigators, and outlined rising STD rates and plans for faster syphilis case contact and community behavioral work.
At a meeting on World AIDS Day, the San Francisco Department of Public Health updated the Health Commission on its Getting to 0 initiative and on an STD prevention strategy that officials said will pair biomedical prevention with renewed behavioral and screening efforts.
Susan Buckbinder, director of Bridge HIV and a member of the Getting to 0 steering committee, presented data showing new HIV diagnoses at their lowest recorded level in 2014 and said the city is featured as a North American Fast-Track city. Buckbinder said San Francisco has a small share of people living with HIV who are unaware of their infection (about 7 percent in the city-level cascade) and that the department is focusing on rapid linkage and retention in care.
"We did get a $1,900,000 a year grant for three years from CDC... to scale up PrEP and outreach, particularly with emphasis on people of color…
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