Catching up with SFAF leaders about their work in 2023

SFAF leaders share what they’re looking forward to in the new year, and their hopes for SFAF’s work in race equity, harm reduction, HIV, sexual health, and more.

Stories on unintended harms caused by drugs continue to dominate headlines. We can, and should, cast a critical eye on sensationalized reporting that plays to outsized fears of illicit substances like fentanyl.

A recent phase 3 study was halted when an interim review found the vaccine failed to slow HIV infections. Although discouraging, failed HIV vaccine studies teach us what doesn’t work--which is still progress.

It is time we abandon “tough love” approaches and shift towards something warm. Something radical. Something wild, unimaginable, and powerful. Something loving.

In a letter to the community, our CEO Dr. Tyler TerMeer gives us a glimpse of what's to come in 2023.

SFAF calls on the City of San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors, the City Attorney, and Mayor Breed to urgently move forward with plans to open community “Wellness Hubs."

When used as a post-exposure prophylactic within three days after unprotected sex, doxycycline reduces sexually transmitted infections by more than 60%.

Gay men's choruses do more than spread holiday cheer--in the height of the epidemic, and up to today, they have fueled LBGTQ activism.