World set up their own surveillance group. This was led by dr. Susan sheer and dr. Willie mcfar land and i want to acknowledge them and their entire team. applause the hiv prevention section formerly led it now its led by tracy packer who is here in the crowd. applause and stacey leads an amazing team of people. They not only oversee and set the priorities for hiv prevention in the entire city and serve as really, again, one of the flagship prevention programs globally in making decisions about how to have the biggest impact on driving down new infections. But theyre also a World Class Research organization that does research on testing, on linkage to care, community viral load, treatment of Substance Use as a way to prevent new hiv infections. And she, again, has a very difficult verse and very talented team and were really excited to work with them as well. applause and then finally i want to introduce my staff. We were formally known as the hiv Research Section. But as you can see w
Test to where a link to the past and the future. So, were a link to the past and the future, and more than anything were a link to the community. And our motto is where science meets community. Our team does really Cutting Edge Research on different kinds of prevention strategies, preexposure prophylaxis. And if you go to our website, join prep hiv, youll see all of the many exciting studies that we have as well as our partnership with San Francisco city clinic in launching the first demonstration project of preexposure prophylaxis, taking antihiv medicines to prevent new infections. Were studying topical gels, retro microbicide. The way were going to end this epidemic is through a vaccine, weve controlled other Infectious Diseases through a cure. Were proud of our staff who contribute to this as well as the many study participants. And im just going to close with a quick word about the project. The way that this project came about was actually one of our staff members, Janey Vincent w
Happen, none of our activities could happen without the support of the city. Thats what makes us such a unique organization. Its what weve always had such strong support from the city. So, mayor lee, thank you. applause thank you. Thank you, susan and barbara, and thank you all for coming out today on this Ribbon Cutting on a very, very important center of research. We have never given up on this fight to end aids, and i am so thankful to be working with supervisor scott weaner and supervisor david campos and the board of supervisors. And we have through the budget year in and year out, and particularly this last couple years, where state and federal funds may have been waiting. We stood up and said, we are continuing this fight at the highest level to make sure we Fund Everything we can to end this aids epidemic. You know, ive been in the city working and the numbers came out. There were 20,000 people that died of this dreaded disease. There were over 20,000 people, more still are suf
Procurement be from Renewable Energy credits. So, the way theyre titled would be appropriate . They would be. They would be qualified resources under state law. If we had if we had them, yes. And we have no geo thermal here . Correct. We have purchased it in the part, but we do not have any in our portfolio today. Where do we purchase it from . We purchase from the geo thermal system in guyser. In guyser ville . Yes. Are they acceptible our hydro now . Yes, commissioner, they are accepting our hydro. Yeah, another hooray, thats three in one meeting. [laughter] we have we were able through the legislative process to explain that were we to have the same rules applied to us, we would just be selling our hydro and substituting in other renewable resources. The objective of the law is to in part to reduce the emissions from power plants. We dont have any power plants that emit. [inaudible]. Yeah, i have a couple of questions. So, we cant bank the rps resources . We can. Under the rules, we
Okay, if we can have everybody take their seats. Okay, good morning. Were going to get warm because youre all together. But we really want to welcome all of you today to the opening of our new city, new bridge hiv research facility. Lets give it a hand. [cheering and applauding] one of the greatest honors that i have and barbara garcia, the director of health and one of the greatest honors i have is the critical staff that i get to work with. And one of those incredible staffs is going to be susan [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding] susan is a premiere doctor in our community, in our San Francisco General Hospital focused on hiv and aids. Ands as importantly and sometimes even more, her importance of being a researcher in the area of hiv and aids and is a renowned world leader in this area. By the way, we have many of you who are, well, world renowned researchers also in the midst of all of us. Im the Principal Investigator on this project and that means that im suppose