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Effect of case management on unmet needs and utilization of medical care and medications among HIV-infected personsM H Katz
Department of Public Health, 101 Grove Street, Room 308, San Francisco, CA 94102 4505, USA
Ann Intern Med 135:557-65. 2001..Although case management has been advocated as a method for improving the care of chronically ill persons, its effectiveness is poorly understood...
Continuing high prevalence of HIV and risk behaviors among young men who have sex with men: the young men's survey in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1992 to 1993 and in 1994 to 1995M H Katz
Department of Public Health of San Francisco, California, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol 19:178-81. 1998..5%) between the two surveys. Despite the increased attention that the problem of high risk behavior among young MSM has received, effective prevention interventions for MSM are needed as profoundly now as they had been several years ago...
Impact of highly active antiretroviral treatment on HIV seroincidence among men who have sex with men: San FranciscoMitchell H Katz
San Francisco Department of Public Health, 101 Grove Street, Room 308, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
Am J Public Health 92:388-94. 2002..This study assessed the countervailing effects on HIV incidence of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) among San Francisco men who have sex with men (MSM)...
Feasibility of postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) against human immunodeficiency virus infection after sexual or injection drug use exposure: the San Francisco PEP StudyJ O Kahn
Positive Health Program, Dept of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, at San Francisco General Hospital, 995 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Infect Dis 183:707-14. 2001..PEP, after nonoccupational HIV exposure, is feasible for persons at risk for HIV infection...
Detection of early HIV infection and estimation of incidence using a sensitive/less-sensitive enzyme immunoassay testing strategy at anonymous counseling and testing sites in San FranciscoW McFarland
Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California 94102 6033, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 22:484-9. 1999..No temporal trend in HIV incidence was noted over the study period. The S/LS strategy provides a practical public health tool to identify early HIV infection and estimate HIV incidence in a variety of study designs and settings...
HIV is hyperendemic among men who have sex with men in San Francisco: 10-year trends in HIV incidence, HIV prevalence, sexually transmitted infections and sexual risk behaviourS Scheer
San Francisco Department of Public Health, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94102 6033, USA
Sex Transm Infect 84:493-8. 2008..To evaluate trends in the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) in San Francisco and the implications for HIV prevention...
Low estimates of HIV seroconversions among clients of a drug treatment clinic in San Francisco, 1995 to 1998W McFarland
Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California 94102 6033, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 23:426-9. 2000..Although detection of no new HIV infections in this population of injection drug users (IDUs) is encouraging, epidemiologic studies among IDUs not in treatment are needed to monitor the HIV epidemic effectively...
Effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy on diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases in people with AIDSS Scheer
Seroepidemiology and Surveillance Section, San Francisco Department of Public Health, CA 94102 6033, USA
Lancet 357:432-5. 2001..We examined whether taking HAART increased the risk of acquiring an STD--an epidemiological marker of unsafe sex--in people with AIDS...
Incidence of human immunodeficiency virus among male-to-female transgendered persons in San FranciscoT A Kellogg
Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 28:380-4. 2001..To estimate HIV incidence among male-to-female transgendered persons (MtF transgendered persons) who repeatedly tested for HIV antibodies at public San Francisco counseling and testing sites between July 1997 and June 2000...
HIV incidence among repeat HIV testers at a county hospital, San Francisco, California, USAT A Kellogg
HIV Seroepidemiology, Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California 94102 6033, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 28:59-64. 2001..To estimate HIV incidence, characterize correlates of HIV seroconversion, and monitor temporal trends in HIV transmission among patients repeatedly tested for HIV by a county hospital in San Francisco...
Tracing a syphilis outbreak through cyberspaceJ D Klausner
STD Services, 1360 Mission St, Suite 401, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
JAMA 284:447-9. 2000....
Impact of protease inhibitors and other antiretroviral treatments on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome survival in San Francisco, California, 1987-1996S K Schwarcz
San Francisco Department of Public Health, CA 94102, USA
Am J Epidemiol 152:178-85. 2000..97, 95% CI: 1.8, 2.2), and homosexual injection drug users (RH = 1.33, 95% CI: 1.2, 1.5). Survival after AIDS has increased. Treatment with antiretroviral agents, particularly protease inhibitors, strongly predicts improved survival...
Helping the urban poor stay with antiretroviral HIV drug therapyJ D Bamberger
San Francisco Department of Public Health, Calif 94102, USA
Am J Public Health 90:699-701. 2000..Action Point is funded by the city and the county of San Francisco. Now in its 10th month, the program continues to show promising evidence of improving clients' biological and social indicators...
Increases in sexually transmitted infections and sexual risk behaviour without a concurrent increase in HIV incidence among men who have sex with men in San Francisco: a suggestion of HIV serosorting?H M Truong
University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sex Transm Infect 82:461-6. 2006..Sexually transmitted infections (STI) and unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) have been increasing among men who have sex with men (MSM) in San Francisco. However, HIV incidence has stabilised...
Postexposure prophylaxis for human immunodeficiency virus infection after sexual or injection drug use exposure: identification and characterization of the source of exposureM E Roland
University of California at San Francisco, Div of AIDS, Dept of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Infect Dis 184:1608-12. 2001..The treatment history, particularly nonuse of a class of antiretroviral drugs, can be used to predict drug resistance...
Reducing financial barriers to HIV-related medical care: does the Ryan White CARE Act make a difference?R Marx
San Francisco Department of Public Health AIDS Office, California 94102 6033, USA
AIDS Care 10:611-6. 1998..Unemployment and poor health independently predicted higher medical service use. CARE appears to reduce financial barriers to medical services...
Characterization of sexually transmitted disease clinic patients with recent human immunodeficiency virus infectionSandra K Schwarcz
AIDS Office, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California 94102, USA
J Infect Dis 186:1019-22. 2002..20-7.45) or gonorrhea (OR, 3.03 95% CI, 1.07-8.63) predicted the predominance of a recent seroconversion. HIV infections in San Francisco may be shifting from white men who have sex with men to men of color who have sex with men...
Predictors of use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among persons with AIDS in San Francisco, 1996-1999L C Hsu
San Francisco Department of Public Health, California, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 28:345-50. 2001..Barriers in use of treatment should be identified so all persons with AIDS can benefit from improved therapies...
Barriers to getting needed services for Ryan White CARE clientsR Marx
Epidemiology and Evaluation Section, AIDS Office, San Francisco Department of Public Health, CA 94102 6033, USA
AIDS Care 13:233-42. 2001....
Risk behaviors and HIV incidence among repeat testers at publicly funded HIV testing sites in San FranciscoSusan E Fernyak
San Francisco Department of Public Health, Communicable Disease Prevention Unit, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 31:63-70. 2002..To characterize repeat testers, we 1) estimated the seroincidence of HIV infection, stratified by risk behavior, and examined the association between 2) testing rates and risk level and 3) repeat testing and tester characteristics...
Viagra, methamphetamine, and HIV risk: results from a probability sample of MSM, San FranciscoHilary H Spindler
San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA
Sex Transm Dis 34:586-91. 2007..To determine the prevalence and factors of Viagra use in combination with crystal methamphetamine and its association with HIV risk behavior in a probability sample of men who have sex with men (MSM)...
Receipt of recommended medical care in HIV-infected and at-risk personsR Marx
AIDS Office, Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California 94102-6033, USA
J Gen Intern Med 10:92-5. 1995..Only 40% of the at-risk persons reported having HIV-antibody testing recommended. Interventions to increase care delivery to HIV-infected and at-risk persons are needed...
Same-sex domestic partnerships and lower-risk behaviors for STDs, including HIV infectionJeffrey D Klausner
STD Prevention and Control Services, San Francisco Department of Public Health, 1360 Mission Street, Suite #401, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
J Homosex 51:137-44. 2006..Men in domestic partnerships had decreased risk behaviors for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection, suggesting but not proving, that conferring legal status to same-sex unions might decrease sexual risk behavior...
Seroconversion following nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis against HIVMichelle E Roland
Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital, California, USA
Clin Infect Dis 41:1507-13. 2005..We sought to describe the occurrence and circumstances of HIV seroconversion following nonoccupational PEP...
Risk of infection from needle reuse at a phlebotomy centerT C Porco
Community Health Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Effectiveness Research Unit, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, Calif, USA
Am J Public Health 91:636-8. 2001..88% for HIV, HBV, and HCV, respectively, lower than National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III prevalence estimates. CONCLUSIONS: The infection risk was very low; few, if any, transmissions are likely to have occurred...
Trends in causes of death among persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy, San Francisco, 1994-1998Janice K Louie
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
J Infect Dis 186:1023-7. 2002..With increasing AIDS survival, prevention of chronic diseases, assessment of long-term toxicity from HAART, and surveillance for additional causes of mortality will become increasingly important...
Management of occupational and nonoccupational postexposure HIV prophylaxisMitchell H Katz
San Francisco Department of Public Health, 101 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep 1:159-65. 2004....
Simplifying consent for HIV testing is associated with an increase in HIV testing and case detection in highest risk groups, San Francisco January 2003-June 2007Nicola M Zetola
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2591. 2008..To describe the change in HIV testing rates in different hospital settings and populations after the change in HIV testing policy in the SFDH medical center, we performed an observational study using interrupted time series analysis...
Calculating expected years of life lost for assessing local ethnic disparities in causes of premature deathTomas J Aragon
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
BMC Public Health 8:116. 2008..The purpose of this study was to rank the leading causes of premature death among San Francisco residents, and to share detailed methods so that these analyses can be used in other local health jurisdictions...
Creating a medical home in the San Francisco department of public health: establishing patient panelsRani Marx
San Francisco Department of Public Health, Community Oriented Primary Care, San Francisco, California 94102, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 15:337-44. 2009..These management tools will allow us to set policies and work toward our goal of establishing a medical home for San Franciscans who rely on publicly funded care...
Golden gate to health care for all? San Francisco's new universal-access programMitchell H Katz
San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, USA
N Engl J Med 358:327-9. 2008
Impact of housing on the survival of persons with AIDSSandra K Schwarcz
San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, USA
BMC Public Health 9:220. 2009..We examined the effect of homelessness on the mortality of persons with AIDS and measured the effect of supportive housing on AIDS survival...
Healthy Young Adults: description and use of an innovative health insurance programJoshua P Rising
Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
J Adolesc Health 41:350-6. 2007..To evaluate enrollment patterns, healthcare use, and factors associated with enrollment in San Francisco's Healthy Young Adults (HYA) program, a comprehensive public health insurance program for young adults who age out of public insurance...
Prediction model to maximize impact of syphilis partner notification--San Francisco, 2004-2008Julia L Marcus
STD Prevention and Control Services, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Sex Transm Dis 37:109-14. 2010..We developed and validated a model to prioritize interviews likely to result in treated partners...
Endemic cryptosporidiosis and exposure to municipal tap water in persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS): a case-control studyTomas J Aragon
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
BMC Public Health 3:2. 2003..To test the hypothesis that drinking tap water was associated with developing cryptosporidiosis, we conducted a matched case-control study among persons with AIDS in San Francisco...
HIV RNA testing in the context of nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxisMichelle E Roland
Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Infect Dis 190:598-604. 2004..The specificity and positive predictive value of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) RNA assays have not been evaluated in the setting of postexposure prophylaxis (PEP)...
The public health response to epidemic syphilis, San Francisco, 1999-2004Jeffrey D Klausner
STD Prevention and Control Services, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California 94103, USA
Sex Transm Dis 32:S11-8. 2005..A multitude of converging risk factors and new environments contributed to the syphilis epidemic, requiring a comprehensive, innovative, and flexible disease-control strategy...
Use of postexposure prophylaxis against HIV infection following sexual exposure does not lead to increases in high-risk behaviorJeffrey N Martin
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, and San Francisco, California 94105, USA
AIDS 18:787-92. 2004..Coupled with prior safety and feasibility data, this lack of behavioral disinhibition suggests that use of PEP should be routinely considered following high-risk sexual exposures...
Continuing increases in sexual risk behavior and sexually transmitted diseases among men who have sex with men: San Francisco, Calif, 1999-2001, USASanny Y Chen
Am J Public Health 92:1387-8. 2002
Associations between substance use and sexual risk among very young men who have sex with menDavid D Celentano
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:265-71. 2006....
Association between rates of HIV testing and elimination of written consents in San FranciscoNicola M Zetola
JAMA 297:1061-2. 2007
Cost-effectiveness of postexposure prophylaxis after sexual or injection-drug exposure to human immunodeficiency virusSteven D Pinkerton
Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53202, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:46-54. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: For this study population, HIV PEP was cost-effective by conventional standards and cost-saving for persons seeking PEP after male-male receptive anal intercourse...
Cost-effectiveness of HIV postexposure prophylaxis following sexual or injection drug exposure in 96 metropolitan areas in the United StatesSteven D Pinkerton
Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, USA
AIDS 18:2065-73. 2004..To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of HIV postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) following sexual or injection-related exposures in 96 metropolitan statistical areas in the United States (MSA)...
