User:Otol3n/San Francisco AIDS Foundation

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The SFAF was originally an all volunteer group lead by physicians and gay community leaders. It began by providing a hotline service originally called the Kaposi Sarcoma or KS hotline that was later renamed along with the organization. The Hotline was intended to serve as a source of accurate information about the AIDS epidemic. It was initially available in Northern California but the organization's growth would see it expand nationwide. By1995 the SFAF reported receiving more than 10,000 calls every month on their Northern California AIDS Hotline

By October 1982 the foundation officially began working with the San Fransisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). Through collaboration the SFAF was able to provide public services meant to educate people about AIDS. By November the foundation was working with the State of California Department of Health Services to provide the same services to other areas of California. The SFAF conducted a large advertising campaign, placing messages on public transportation, popular newspapers, and strategically placed advertisements in venues and media popular with the gay community. The foundation also worked with journalists to increase awareness and understanding of the epidemic. The media produced by the SFAF focused on risk reduction and safe sex. In particular the Foundation emphasized the use of condoms during anal intercourse for gay men, and cautioned against activities that shared bodily fluid. By 1983 the foundation had reached the point where they could establish a social services department that could offer emergency services to those affected by aids and related issues

Today the SFAF continues its mission in combating AIDS and to eventually end the disease, and has grown large enough be a respected source of information on AIDS as well as support other organizations and programs aside from its advertising efforts. Among the services offered, the SFAF offers sexual Health Services including a pre-exposure program. Participants in the program are assisted in obtaining medication easily. The SFAF also runs services designed to help with substance abuse such as the Stonewall Project and social support programs aimed at the homeless and people over fifty. In addition the SFAF is a major influence and collaborator on the Getting to Zero initiative

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- https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdfplus/10.2105/AJPH.76.11.1325

The SFAF was originally an all volunteer group

The SFAF was created by Gay community leaders and physicians

The SFAF Information and Referral Hotline developed a national reputation due to information it could provide on the disease

In October the SFAF officially began working with the SFDPH. Through collaboration the SFAF was able to provide public services meant to educate people about AIDS

In November the SFAF officially began working with the State of California Department of Health Services to provide the same services to other areas of California.

In 1983 the foundation had reached the point where they could establish a social services department that could offer emergency services to those affected by aids and related issues

- https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=EvBMyR1hr2wC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=san+francisco+aids+foundation&ots=YLMwQ0-1Ae&sig=LwKb7jPCUx9LtTFODUfhiC_Fq_c#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20aids%20%22foundation%22&f=false

The organization was originally called Kaposi’s Sarcoma Education and Research Foundation

First organization devoted to new epidemic

By the 90s the Foundation had grown large enough to be a source of information and support to other AIDS programs

In 1995 the SFAF reported receiving more than 10,000 calls every month on their Northern California AIDS Hotline

- https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/51733/WHF_1987_8(4)_p484-488.pdf

The SFAF conducted a large advertising campaign, placing messages on public transportation, popular newspapers, and strategically placed advertisements in venues and media popular with the gay community

The SFAF worked with journalists to increase awareness and understanding of the eidemeic

Media produced by the SFAF focused on risk reduction and safe sex

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352301819300086

The SFAF is a major influence and collaborator on the Getting to Zero initiative

The Kaposi Sarcoma/ KS Hotline began in San Fran and spread nationwide

The SFAF offers sexual Health Services including a pre-exposure program. Participants in the program are assisted in obtaining medication easily

The SFAF currently runs services designed to help with substance abuse such as the Stonewall project and social support programs aimed at the homeless, people over fifty

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1425325/pdf/pubhealthrep00096-0068.pdf

Early on in the AIDS epidemic the SFAF distributed information about safe sex, including promoting the use of condoms and cautioning against activities that share body fluids