Ward 86 Job: Apply for this wonderful job opportunity in our Division at UC San Francisco . I am the Medical Director for Ward 86 HIV clinic here- wonderful place to work and with publicly-insured patients- we are innovative - apply for Associate Medical Director
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In response to complaints by PrEP users, California insurance regulator CA Dept of Insurance Ricardo Lara has issued new #PrEP coverage guidance for issuers. Plans must cover oral & injectable #PrEP & all related services w/o copays or #priorauth : bit.ly/3w8v49J

COVID compromised previous gains in controlling #HIV and worsened health disparities, a UCSF study in Clinical Infectious Diseases finds. “We will need to redouble our efforts in responding to the HIV epidemic to regain our momentum,” Matthew Spinelli says. ucsfh.org/485XUWi

SF Observer with a nice article discussing our study on Cov19 pandemic’s negative impacts on people living with HIV ⁦Monica Gandhi MD, MPH⁩ appreciate the patient perspectives sfexaminer.com/news/health/uc…

Another casualty of the #SARSCoV2 #pandemic : decreases in #HIV suppression trajectories, just out in Clinical Infectious Diseases, with Matthew Spinelli Monica Gandhi MD, MPH. Highlights the destablization and need to regain our footing to meet @endingtheHIVepidemic goals academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab…

Viral Suppression Trajectories Destabilized After Coronavirus Disease 2019 Among US People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis

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#HIV + #COVID : UC San Francisco study finds people living w/HIV have 'pandemic expertise.' Skills+attitudes developed through experiences w/HIV helped them cope w/COVID-19 pandemic (strategies to deal w/anxiety+depression, appreciation for life, +changing behaviors to protect health). 1/2

📢 Calling all HIV clinicians: UCSF HIV Grand Rounds is BACK. And we have a hip new YouTube channel!

Powerhouse Diane Havlir kicked us off with 'The State of HIV: Where we are now and where are we going?' 🔥
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Can we do a better job with doxyPEP implementation than we did for HIV PrEP? Many parallels with the concerns raised for PrEP 10 years ago. Great talk from Connie Celum #STIHIV2023 ISSTDR

Next up at #IAS2023 : Michael Peluso, MD, who heads up the LIINC #longCOVID team at UC San Francisco -- & is also an HIV cure researcher -- discusses the impact of #COVID on people living with #HIV .

Exciting job opportunity! Research Data Analyst on the American Remote Contact HIV Epidemiology Study (ARCHES). Follow link for details!
Matthew Spinelli Monica Gandhi MD, MPH UC San Francisco UC San Francisco_Epibiostat
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Excited to discuss how we are using objective adherence monitoring biomarkers to improve the status neutral HIV care cascade

Today at UCSF HIV Grand Rounds we have Peter Hunt and Rachel Rutishauser discussing comorbidities and cure research. Peter hunt is starting by discussing comorbidities.. no evidence of increased risk of MI with INSTIs in the Swiss Cohort, reassuring given prior study w MI signal

Today's Zuckerberg SF General Hospital & Trauma Center HIV Grand Rounds will be Cases from the HIV/AIDS Chest Clinic with Dr. Laurence Huang & ID Fellow Dr. Rebecca Abelman. Live tweets to follow!

This is too funny 'they were all colonized with klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenamase...(confused face) What's that?' The good news is 'KPC is not airborne like a virus or COVID' #superbugs #CRE

The disruption in healthcare services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic compromised progress made toward meeting U.S. Ending the HIV Epidemic goals, according to research presented at 2023 CROI.
idse.net/Multimedia/Art… Matthew Spinelli #CROI2023 #HIV

Thank you Carlos for highlighting our study virologic suppression gains plateaued or reversed particularly among women and Black PLWH and especially PWID living with HIV across 8 clinics in CNICS. Need to implement new targeted interventions post COVID-19 to get back on track

Important study by Jeanne Marrazzo at #CROI2023 on adherence to TDF/FTC for PrEP among 6296 women (Abst 163). 62 infections (incidence = 0.72/100 py but ⬆️ in < 25). Higher adherence reported than measured but ⬆️ adherence = no infections. ~ 50% did not take consistently.

Thanks Laura Waters for tweeting our poster. VS increased from 0->86% with POC TFV informed counseling. Historical data only 33% of PLWH in Namibia MoH clinics suppress after two rounds of traditional EAC counseling. Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

Today we are live tweeting Dr. Gabe Chamie and Dr. Gustavo Velasquez from SFDPH TB Clinic and our Division reflecting on cases of HIV TB Medicine