The Many Life-Preserving Activities of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Each and every day of the week, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation:

• Distributes 7,100 sterile needles at seven different locations to help injection drug users avoid being infected by HIV and Hepatitis C.
• Provides 360 people with HIV/AIDS a safe place to sleep.
• Gives 30 African American gay and bisexual men tools for networking, socializing, and working together to increase quality of life and self-esteem while dealing with poverty, racism, and HIV (Black Brothers Esteem).
• Offers 25 Latino women and men a safe space to support each other and discuss the issues of living with HIV (El Grupo).
• Provides 60 gay and bisexual men with harm reduction materials and counseling to help reduce their risk of getting HIV.
• Receives 190 new calls to the HIV/AIDS Hotline and provides callers with essential information about HIV and referrals to other service providers.
• Advocates in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., for funding of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), ensuring that 30,000 low-income Californians get free HIV medications.
• Advocates at the state and federal level for hundreds of thousands of Americans with HIV to have access to comprehensive medical care and social services.
• Ensures that 1,000 men, women, and children receive AIDS care and medications in rural villages in China, South Africa, and Rwanda through the work of Pangaea, our affiliate agency that trains physicians and nurses in resource-limited nations.
• Ensures that hundreds of thousands of people in South Africa benefit from Pangaea's work to create a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan.
• Provides state-of-the-art treatment information to 25,000 readers in the U.S. and around the world through our magazines BETA and BETA en Español.