For Women Living With HIV, A Trauma-Informed Approach To Care
The top floor of a medical building located on a hill afforded the exam room of the Women’s HIV Program multimillion-dollar views of the San Francisco skyline, and on this particular December day the views were especially dramatic, with cloudy skies and light rain. The Women’s HIV Program, part of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Medical Center in the city’s Parnassus Heights neighborhood, is a trauma-informed primary care clinic for women living with HIV. Most of…
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Alonzo King Lines Ballet World Premiere Benefit
The Women’s HIV Program at UCSF cordially invites you to the opening night of the Alonzo King Lines Ballet featuring performances by jazz legends Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran. A Women’s HIV Program Benefit Reception & Performance Thursday, April 21, 2016 Cocktail Reception at 6pm Performance at 8pm Yerba Buena Center for the Arts LAM RESEARCH THEATER 700 Howard Street at 3rd Street San Francisco, CA 94103 $150 / TICKET (includes VIP seating and cocktail reception) To purchase tickets, please…
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Alonzo King LINES Ballet Benefit for WHP on April 10, 2015
WHP teamed up with LINES Ballet once again this year on Friday, April 10, 2015 to raise awareness and support WHP’s work at the front line of supporting powerful women living with HIV in the community. The event, held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, sold out completely and was a huge success! Couldn’t join us but would still like to donate? Please visit our donation page.
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WHP Director Dr. Edward Machtinger gave a testimony at a congressional briefing focused on the critical intersection of women, violence and HIV in Washington D.C. on October 14, 2014.
AIDS United invited WHP Director Edward Machtinger to provide a testimony at a congressional briefing in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month on October 14, 2014 in Washington D.C. The panelists included Gina Brown, MD, Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health; Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, John Hopkins School of Nursing and Bloomberg School of Public Health; Maggie Czarnogorski, MD, MPH, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of National AIDS Policy; Naina Khanna, Executive Director, Positive Women’s Network USA;…
WHP Publishes New Study Demonstrating the Healing Impact of Safe and Voluntary HIV Disclosure
On July 11, 2014, WHP published a study titled, “An Expressive Therapy Group Disclosure Intervention for Women Living With HIV Improves Social Support, Self-efficacy, and the Safety and Quality of Relationships: A Qualitative Analysis” in the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC). We are very excited to have released this new publication describing an effective intervention to help women living with HIV safely and voluntarily disclose their HIV status. It was our hypothesis that HIV disclosure…
WHP Statement for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Today, on National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, WHP salutes the courage and resilience of women and girls living with HIV. Every day, we are inspired by their power to overcome stigma, to embrace one another in support and solidarity, and to lead us all towards self-acceptance, social justice, and real health and wellbeing. Today, we also strongly encourage the President and Congress to reconsider the shocking decision last week to completely eliminate funding for the Ryan White Part…
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