San Francisco officials allocated $2.6 million for local HIV programs over the next two years in the fiscal budget adopted by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday that advocates had been seeking. The funding includes money to address the mental health and housing needs of long-term HIV survivors.
Also on July 27 the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced $117 million in funding for states and local health departments as part of the second major round of investment in the federal Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative. San Francisco will receive $3.09 million of the funds. That funding will certainly help to shore up the system of care for people living with, and at risk for, HIV, said AIDS Legal Referral Panel Executive Director Bill Hirsh. I think the federal government is proposing, at least the Democrats in Congress are proposing, some significant increases in funding to services for people with HIV. I am hopeful this is reflective of prioritiz
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Lance Toma Creates Safe Spaces for San Francisco s LGBTQ+ AAPI Community
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Lance Toma was looking for community. Raised in Hawaii, he came out as gay when he moved to Chicago as an adult and found work serving LGBTQ+ youth and adults there. However, at the time there were few resources specifically created for LGBTQ+ Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
“I could see there was such a dissonance about race,” Lance says. “I kept thinking ‘How can I serve my AAPI community?’”
The answer came in 1999, in the form of a job offer in San Francisco. API Wellness, now called the San Francisco Community Health Center, was looking for a director of programs and Lance moved across the country and took the job. In 2006, he was named executive director. Fifteen years later, he continues to create innovative programs and resources aimed at supporting the health and wellbeing of the LGBTQ+ community and people of color.
Equality California has named its managing director, Tony Hoang, as its first Asian American executive director. Hoang will be the third out gay man of color to oversee the country s largest statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization.
At 31, Hoang will also be the youngest person to lead EQCA, its political action committee, and its educational arm the Equality California Institute. He will succeed Rick Chavez Zbur, who plans to step down at the end of the year to focus on his race for an open state Assembly seat in the Los Angeles area.
While attending the University of Southern California Hoang first joined EQCA as a field intern in 2009. It led to a 12-year career with the organization, as Hoang rose through the ranks as EQCA s database and volunteer manager, director of operations, chief of staff, managing director, and now its executive director-designate.
San Francisco International Airport s Harvey Milk Terminal 1 has earned the Fitwel Best in Building Health Award from the Center for Active Design.
According to a news release, Fitwel is a building rating system that provides guidelines on how to design, construct, and operate healthier buildings. In the Retail v2.1 category, SFO and the design-build team of Hensel Phelps, A Gensler/Kuth Ranieri Joint Venture won the design award for the Terminal 1 Center project, part of the $2.4 billion Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Redevelopment Program. Harvey Milk Terminal 1 was designed with the health of both our passengers and employees in mind, airport director Ivar C. Satero stated in a March 25 news release. Achieving Fitwel certification for this terminal a first in the world helped us to establish a new benchmark for the airport experience.
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