Something if you see something happen this is how we work with our community to make sure that everyone is safe in our city has a proud history of inclusiveness and leading the fight against hiv and ada weve congresswoman come a long way since the dark days of aids countrys were getting closer to this because of the people in the room weve got closer to zero thank you to europe of you for all our participation your input, your gowns and leadership clapping. yeah. As you may know San Franciscos aiming become the first city to get to zero this means zero new hiv enacts and zero death from hiv and zero stigma and discriminates were on the right track last year fewer than 200 infections well going get closer and closer advertised go we can do better ill consist we focus on preservation getting people the care immediately slopt and making sure theyre in treatment and have many, many strength to build only one of the strengths ive that and always say that a Strong Community participation we owe much of our second, second to the practices of that diverse is community to tell the truth and listening to the community and collaborating for progress this is the only way to get to zero we want to commend permanent thank all the members of the hiv Planning Council for their hard work and their continued work say commitment in the future your participation in the two predecessor counsels that have shaped noble how our city cares forces those living with hiv and aid but presenting new infections thats a long road for the merging of the Councils Together thank you director garys and the Public Health department on this front is it so exist as one of the first of its kind in the nation the council will take on a unit front on accident fight against ada hiv thank you clapping. your work will allow San Francisco to better coordinate and strengthen our history infrastructure to do planning for the continuum from preservation to wrap around services in council can help us going get to zero and end sdriems we know i think we can make an impact about the discussion that or on blood thats the real stigma in our in addition, we have prioritized fidget against hiv and aids my budget has back filled because of our supervisors hero today supervisor wiener and, of course, supervisor campos and others we had to backfill the unfortunate back cuts from the federal government since nevada no matter what the challenge we did it. clapping. and we remain committed to providing comprehensive care and focus on care on the preservation side kept is a preservation strategy San Francisco started in 2010 our prep Income Tax Program connects people to the resources and there are new now 6 thousand people on the prep in San Francisco and id like to thank supervisor wiener for his leadership in making prep widely available and informed. clapping. so today in addition to swearing in our 0 Planning Council we want to narrow were launching the new Prep Campaign for an uptick of prevention of history let me innovative bearing and supervisor wiener 0 say a few few words about prep. clapping. thank you mr. Mayor im very proud to serve for mayor ed lee hes had every time the budget the first question what are redoing around the hiv dollars so take note of his leadership. clapping. and strong support but i want to make sure we acknowledge the charitable incidents against. Latino and Lgbt Community especially the that concludes my report. Renals and the other communities well hear more and more community the resolve and the currently youve seen from latino and latino Lgbt Community is incredible and im so proud of resolve and the responses and you think many times government loaders and other leaders we forgot the strength of people of color the fortitude we have as native and immigrant community so it is this strength we should count on and look to when they are thinking about our services new opportunity and medications like preparing that can survive ive been arena long enough to watch the urban pounceable names and new names of medications and many campaigns for hiv and aids that have satisfied so many lives in the past as for those new sxiefk games what is important at times what is more important how we tried treat our community of color and respect them and this honor will get us to zero transition and death and stigma i want to acknowledge all our dpw employees that do the work for us i cant do this alone i want to acknowledge folks can you stand for a second. clapping. we have researchers standing, department of Human Resources standing and activists standing theyve been the construction of our department but today, i want to honor our leaders on the hiv Planning Council it has seen me come to those meetings midmarket some days we disagree but many times agree but your role is announced by federal, state, and local government and im proud you have found a way to come together i ask is that mayor four or five years ago is it takes time to come together im proud of you so i want to thank you, very much. Thank you. clapping. im also proud today to announce that starting today, well see a new Prep Campaign that will celebrate prep as a way to reduce the risk of hiv by more than 90 terrace to working closely to make sure we eliminate contribution and remember the stigma is the code word for description and homophobia so thank you, thank you and thank you. clapping. help us get to zero thank you so much thank you. clapping. thank you barbara for really those moving words about orlando i think for a lot of us we woke up and saw those headlines it was like just an absolute punch to the gut to i think we can all remember for those who dont go out as much what it means to be in a gay bar or number those are our community sacrifices and ways that it is not outside of Lgbt Community for generations of our Community Members those are at times the only places where you can guess and be who you are and build community and in fact as were hearing from the extraordinarily hearing stories about the people that were killed in the club and their family members not knowing they were lgbt our lgbt night life no ones in 2016 to play that Community Building and Community Strengthening role and have that scared space stloiltd this go unbelievably horrible massacre is a violation i cant articulate and i think that we owe it to the people that were killed and the people injured to the family families the influence that we should continue to fight to end violation or violence with what is happening every single day and commit to that in terms of the matter at hand i want to thank the mayor for his continued support of the People Living with history and people at risked for the advisory we took office the same month we were hit with the First Federal ryan white and the mayor didnt blink my colleagues didnt bring we continued year after year to really backfill the failure of the federal government clapping. and you know, i came of age as a gay man in 1987 when we were living in the era of fear an association of death and sickness with sex when we didnt no effective treatment the terror of getting tested to wait two weeks will i be positive or dead in a few months and going through that and generations of lgbt people you know having that trauma and the progress weve made over the years is incredible and this cause of San Francisco the because of our communitybased organizations our Community Advocates this city as time and g time again set the standards created the template and nooshd and the rest of the country and world has followed we need to continue to do that and we are continuing to do that with our getting to zero effort ive been proud to work with the department on the getting to zero and again, a template that others replicate and those infections to make sure that People Living with the advisor are healthy and eliminating them and ii know well be successful about a year and a half ago in december of 2014 i announced that i am on preparing that was it was a little bit scary i want to thank the San Francisco aids foundation and uflg for helping me through that process it was a positive response i think that people fundamentally get it we have a tool that so dramatically reduces the risk of infection we need to promote and invest and make sure that people can assess no matter how wealthy i didnt or poor and should have insurance access to powerful prevention tool one our consultant communities are are voices including loud voices that are trying stigma its prep and we have to continue to push back and make sure that the word is out there this matters and will safe lives thank you to everyone and lets keep on fighting to i understand hiv infections. clapping. thank you, supervisor and let me say again, all of you who are im about the to swear in letting me give a personal thank you this is not easy work i know that when our faced with the need to change peoples behavior when our faced with discriminates with stigma when our trying to get informed about the facts it is not easy to do all of that in the faced of things that are going on that sometimes we dont have control over i want to first thank everyone that is stepping up to be on the hiv council without you, we couldnt find a way to get to zero on infections and prevent this deadly disease from increasing the disaster reduce effect please theyre your jobs seriously and also live proudly talk to people continue giving them the encouragement that they need to have in order to do the right thing to save their own lives or their friends or families lives with that, if i can ask all the members of hiv Planning Council to please stand up and raise your hand and yell your names out i repeated. repeated. foreign and domestic. repeated. and that i will bear true faith and allegiance. And to the constitution of the state of california. repeated. that i take this oath freely. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. repeated. that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. repeated. and during such time as i hold office of as he member of the hiv Planning Council repeated for the city and county of San Francisco members thank you very much thank you congratulations clapping. all right. We get do go to woto go to work i am so looking forward to the street fair tomorrow. It is in the mission, how are we going to get there . We are not driving. Well what do you suggest . There are a lot of great transportation choices in the city and there is one place to find them all, sfnta. Com. Sfmta. Com. It is the walking parking, and riding muni and it is all here in one place. Sitting in front of my computer waiting Transportation Options that is not exactly how i want to spend my saturday night. The new sfmta. Com is mobile friendly, it works great on a tablet, smart phone or a lap top, it is built to go wherever we go. Cool. But, lets just take the same route tomorrow that we always take, okay . It might be much more fun to ride our bikes. I am going to be way too tired to ride all the way home. Okay, how about this, we can ride our bikes there and then we can take muni home and it even shows us how to take the bikes on the bus, so simple right here on my phone. Neat. We can finish making travel plans over dinner, now lets go eat