Living Positively: Your Roadmap to Living Well with HIV
Testing positive for HIV can be a life-changing experience. You may feel nervous, confused, scared or angry. Right now, the important thing for you to focus on is that you are not alone, and that you will be connected to people who will make sure you’ve got the resources, information and support you need to continue to live a healthy life.
Living Positively is your guide to living with HIV. The guide has info about next steps after an HIV diagnosis, how to take care of yourself immediately and in the coming months and years, info about HIV treatments, the types of HIV lab tests with explanations about what results mean, how to talk about HIV with sex partners, and more.
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Programs for People Living with HIV
The Doctor Is In
Free event series sharing the latest information and research about living with HIV.
PLUS
A weekend-long seminar for anyone dealing with HIV, whether newly diagnosed or addressing HIV in a new way.
Elizabeth Taylor 50-Plus Network
Social support group with dinners & events for gay, bi and trans men over age 50 regardless of HIV status.
Black Health Center of Excellence
Linking African Americans living with HIV to care, groups, medical case management and more.
CCHAMP Center of Excellence
Case management for people living with HIV receiving care at Ward 86.
Resources About Living with HIV
USPSTF Recommendation for PrEP
Task Force recommends that clinicians offer PrEP to individuals at high risk for HIV acquisition.
Host events for trans people
Here’s what we do to maintain safe, open, accepting and sex-positive spaces at Eros, a gay men's sex club in San Francisco.
Bringing visibility to the transmasculine experience
Niko and Loren started a visibility campaign for trans men that has morphed over the years into events, sex parties and educational materials designed for the trans community.
Why are trans men invisible in HIV prevention & care?
Shawn Demmons confronts the hard truth that trans men are overlooked in HIV prevention efforts—and explains how we can change this.
Ready for gender-affirming surgery? Don’t leap before loving yourself.
Brandyn asserts that there’s no one right “path” for trans people to follow in gender-affirming care, and that self-awareness is the first step in making deliberate, informed choices about your care.
Statement on 2019-20 California Budget
The 2019-20 Budget signed today by Governor Newsom includes limited investments in HIV, HCV and STDs, despite an escalating public health crisis impacting the state's most vulnerable residents.
San Francisco seeks solutions to harms caused by meth
Leaders at the Stonewall Project are sharing their expertise in providing services to people who use meth on the San Francisco Methamphetamine Task Force.
Celebrating Resilience, Beauty and Strength at Trans March
Trans March shows the world that San Francisco is a place for trans people that is based on respect and equality, said Ms. Billie Cooper, a Community Grand Marshal for San Francisco Pride.
HIV testing is the first step
Getting tested for HIV and STIs every three months is the best way to know your status, get linked to treatment and manage your sexual health.