So their effectiveness is probably 80 in preventing hiv transmission. And so the next slide is really about paying for prep because it could be expensive. The great news is the cdc made the recommendation that its provided. Medical covers this in california and medicaid nationally. Most employee sponsored programs pay for it and we have patient assistance programs outlined here but its a complex situation and people seeking prep need a lot of assistance because each plan within a Given Program pays for a different amount and may cover one component but not visits or lab tests, and so we really need what we found is most successful in getting people prep is having the navigators that help them arrange the appropriate insurance and find providers willing to provide it, so we have a three pronged approach for what is needed for prep. We need assistance from providers. There are providers not comfortable providing prep so support for the new prep clinics and training on line tools and assi
Successful in getting people prep is having the navigators that help them arrange the appropriate insurance and find providers willing to provide it, so we have a three pronged approach for what is needed for prep. We need assistance from providers. There are providers not comfortable providing prep so support for the new prep clinics and training on line tools and assistance for the users and we still have the disparities and we need the information about availability into the communities most impacted by hiv. We would like to set up a user hot line so people can call and get information. Theres a lot of questions that individuals have about prep and we need to address affordability and then we want to measure the impact of prep, both theup take of prep, the benefits of prep but also any negative consequences and in particular we know of one case Life Insurance denied to a person initiated prep and we want to make sure those discriminatory practices for people caring for their health
Good morning supervisors. I am jeff sheea and living with hiv and i was the hiv advocate to gavin newsom and serve on the governing board on the California Institute of regenerative medicine. Thank you supervisor wieners and supervisor campos for sponsoring this meeting and thank you supervisor farrell for the opportunity to present today and thank you Barbara Garcia and the department of Public Health and i am part of the consortium and were here to talk about the historic opportunity for San Francisco, ground zero in 1981 at the beginning of the aids epideppic to be the first mutiny of injury new infections, zero deaths from hiv and zero stig ma. This is a realistic goal for several reasons. First there is the amazing and compassionate response from the San Francisco community to hiv aids starting with initiatives by mayor Dianne Feinstein and speaker willie brown and every mayor and the board of supervisors. San francisco has the finest system of care and prevention in the world. Th
Group as we have gone and right now i think [inaudible] we have you know, we have engaged the folks from the hiv Providers Network so they have been participating. We have several folks from the department of Public Health, from ucsf, San Francisco aids foundation. The fabulous folks from [inaudible] joining us. Thanks ted and matt. Ms. Chung is participating, the Health Commissioner. We also brought in kaiser. What is important is that 2 3 of the patients are seen in the private sector for hiv and most by kaiser in San Francisco. Having brad here the director of hiv services at kaiser has been critical. We have genie to bring in the private docks. We had their voices at the table but its been bringing people in. We had adam taylor from scotts office, laura lane from your office has been participating and its very open, and just everybody has been very enthusiastic about moving forward. We meet about every two months and focus on working collaboratively to come up with some ideas to ac
There are providers not comfortable providing prep so support for the new prep clinics and training on line tools and assistance for the users and we still have the disparities and we need the information about availability into the communities most impacted by hiv. We would like to set up a user hot line so people can call and get information. Theres a lot of questions that individuals have about prep and we need to address affordability and then we want to measure the impact of prep, both theup take of prep, the benefits of prep but also any negative consequences and in particular we know of one case Life Insurance denied to a person initiated prep and we want to make sure those discriminatory practices for people caring for their health dont continue and i will turn this over to diane who will talk second two initiatives rapid and retention. So our second two initiatives are based on a strong Scientific Foundation which is there are benefits to treating individuals with hiv for the