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
People have access, not just to testing, but also to treatment, and also to prep, and i know we have to continue to do a lot of work to make sure that were expanding access to preexposure prove axis and i asked to be assigned to the Budget Committee because i know were all working hard to come forward with a proposal for the next budget to make sure were funding some of these getting to zero efforts so its exciting and i look forward to working with everyone and move forward, and i want to offer supervisor campos the opportunity to speak before we get to our wonderful list of speakers today. Thank you supervisor wiener and i want to thank the chair and the committee, Budget Committee for hearing this item. I think its important to have this hearing as were beginning the process of completing a city budget. I think that the issue of hiv aids needs to be a critical part of the equation as we put together a budget which ultimately reflects our priorities as a city. I also want to thank th
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
U. K. Find out why the authorities are sending them here and why the migrants say these conditions are worse than inhumane later in the program. Lets get to yemen where theres intense fighting on the ground between forces that backed the president hadi and those loyal to the rebels. Lets get you up to date with the latest on the ground. Yemens southeast have taken control of one of yemens most important ports. Its the countrys only gas export terminal. In aden more heavy fighting in the socalled popular resistance. 23 houthis have surrendered to the tribesmen. And east of the capitol sanaa tribal fighters say they are managing to hold off the houthi advance. They say the houthis have superior weapons, but can be defeated. First lets go to our diplomatic editor james bayes who is at the united nations. He joins us from there now. Jordan has put forth a draft resolution in order to put a stop to the fighting. Talk us through that. Reporter this is a copy of the draft resolution. There ha
Items 16 and 17 and table item 18 and 19, can we have a roll call vote. Supervisor mar . Aye. Mar aye. Supervisor tang . Aye. Tang aye. Supervisor wiener . Aye. Wiener aye. Supervisor yee . Yee aye. Supervisor avalos . Aye. Avalos aye. Supervisor breed . Aye. Breed aye. Supervisor campos . Aye. Campos aye. Supervisor chiu . Aye. Chiu aye. Supervisor cohen . Aye. Supervisor farrell . Aye. Supervisor kim . Kim aye. The there are 11 ayes. The ordinance is passed on First Reading and the ordinance is adopted. [gavel] why dont we now go to general Public Comment, madam clerk. At this time the public may comment generally for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including those items on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. Please note that Public Comment is not allowed on items which have already been subject to Public Comment by a Board Committee and pursuant to board rule 4. 22, please direct your remarks to the board as a whole an