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Research & Resources Booklets

• 2025
  • Research for Youth HIV/AIDS Prevention - April 10
  • HIV/AIDS Prevention Research in Black/African American Communities - February 7
     
• 2023
  • Research for Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Prevention - September 27
  • Research for HIV Testing - June 27
  • Research for Youth HIV/AIDS Prevention - April 10
  • HIV/AIDS Prevention Research in Black/African American Communities - February 7
     
• 2022
  • Research for Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Prevention - September 27
  • Research for HIV Testing - June 27
  • HIV/AIDS Prevention with Youth - April 10
  • HIV/AIDS Prevention Research in Black/African American Communities - February 7
• 2021
  • Research for Gay Men's HIV Prevention - September 27
  • Research for HIV Testing - June 27
  • Research for Youth HIV/AIDS Prevention - April 10
  • Research for Black/African American HIV/AIDS Prevention - February 7
• 2020
  • National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - September 27
• 2019
  • National HIV Testing Day—June 27
  • National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—April 10
  • National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—February 7
• 2018
  • National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—September 27
  • National HIV Testing Day—June 27
  • National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—April 10
  • National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—February 7
• 2017
  • National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—September 27
  • National HIV Testing Day—June 27
  • National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—April 10
  • National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—February 7

Newsletters

• Winter 2024 - Community Co-Authorship Recommendations for Community Engaged Research
• Spring 2024 - CAPS/PRC/CFAR Community Advisory Board
• Summer 2023 - Antiracism Studies.
• Fall 2022 - CAPS TAPS Postdoctoral Fellows 
• Summer 2022 - Highlighting CAPS/PRC Visiting Professors and New DPS Leadership
• Fall 2021 - Highlighting CAPS/PRC Research Staff
• Spring 2021 - COVID-19 and HIV-Related Research
• Fall 2020 - Ending the Epidemic 
• Spring 2020 - International Projects
• Winter 2020 - Early Career Faculty
• Summer 2019 - HIV Care Engagement
• Spring 2019 - Couples Research 
• Fall/Winter 2018 - Community Engagement 
• Summer 2018 - Policy 
• Spring 2018 - Technology
• Spring/Summer 2017 - Health Disparities

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Policy Monographs

• Navigating 340B Amidst Policy Changes: An Explainer | Northern California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Center (2024)
• Navigating Changes to the 340B Drug Pricing Program: A Toolkit for HIV-Related Healthcare Entities in California  Northern California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Center (2024)
• Best Practices & Recommendations for the California State Office of AIDS’ PrEP Assistance Program: Summer 2017 Rapid Assessment | Northern California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Center (2017)
• Examining California’s Office of AIDS Health Insurance Premium Payment Program: Barriers and facilitators to establishing and maintaining comprehensive insurance coverage for Californians living with HIV/AIDS (2015)
• California’s ‘‘Bridge to Reform’’: Identifying Challenges and Defining Strategies for Providers and Policymakers Implementing the Affordable Care Act in Low-Income HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Settings (March 2014)
• Evaluating Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) for HIV Care (February 2011)
• Understanding the implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP to prevent HIV in California (January 2011)
• Examining the impact of the HIV-related state budget cuts: Comparing Alameda, Fresno, and Los Angeles Counties (January 2011)
• Examining the Impact of the HIV-related State Budget Cuts (November 2010)
• Crime and Punishment: Is There a Role for Criminal Law in HIV Prevention Policy? (April 2004) This article was originally published in the Whittier Law Review. Supplemental materials
• Abstinence Only vs. Comprehensive Sex Education: What are the Arguments? What is the Evidence? (March 2002)
• Discovering Global Success: Future Directions for HIV Prevention in the Developing World (April 2000)
• Designing Primary Prevention for People Living with HIV (March 2000)
• Paving the Road to an HIV Vaccine: Employing Tools of Public Policy to Overcome Scientific, Economic, Social and Ethical Obstacles (December 1998)
• Motivators and Barriers To Use Of Combination Therapies In Patients With HIV Disease (January 1998)
• Do As I Say…Should We Teach Only Abstinence in Sex Education?(September 1997)
• Dangerous Inhibitions: How America Is Letting AIDS Become an Epidemic of the Young (February 1997)
• Sustaining Support for Domestic HIV Vaccine Research (July 1996)

Science to Community Reports

Science to Community is a series of 4-page descriptions of CAPS research studies. These summaries start from where journal articles leave off, adding greater depth of information about interventions and processes of the research. All Science to Community reports are in PDF format.

Prevention

• UFO Presents! A viral hepatitis prevention and education program for young adult IDUs (July 2009)
• Studying Youth in Northern California (SYNC) (January 2009)
• A novel condom distribution program for county jail prisoners (September 2008)
• HIV prevention for women visiting their incarcerated partners: the HOME Project (August 2007)
• The CHANGES Project: Coping Effectiveness Training for HIV+ gay men(June 2007)
• Seroconversion Narratives for AIDS Prevention (The SNAP Project) (April 2006)
• What Providers Think about HIV Prevention: The Implicit Theory Project(November 2002)
• Collaborative Research to Prevent HIV among Prisoners and their Families(updated December 2004)
• Investigación Conjunta para la Prevención del VIH con Poblaciones Encarceladas y sus Familias (December 2004)
• Project START: HIV/STD/Hepatitis Prevention for Young Men Being Released from Prison (July 2004)
• Prevention Strategies of HIV Positive Injection Drug Users (VENUS Study)(September 2001)
• Project Access: Barriers to HIV Counseling and Testing, and the Prevention Strategies of Drug Users Community(March 2001)
• Study of HIV Sexual Risk among Disenfranchised African American MSM Community (March 2001)
• The Legacy Project: Lessons Learned About Conducting Community-Based Research (June 2000)
• Collaborative HIV Prevention Research in Minority Communities (June 2000)
• The Voluntary HIV-1 Counseling and Testing Efficacy Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Three Developing Countries (June 2000)
• Systematic Reviews Demystified: Conducting Systematic Reviews on HIV Infection and AIDS (June 2000)
• International HIV Prevention Research at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco (June 2000)

Smoking-Cessation

• Smoking Cessation Interventions in San Francisco’s Queer Communities(February 2002)

Mental Health

• Stress and Coping in Gay Male Caregivers of Men with AIDS (June 2000)

Research reports

• Proceedings of the National Roundtable on Evaluation of Mutlilevel/Combination HIV Prevention Interventions(March 2013)
• Community acceptance and implementation of HIV prevention interventions for injection drug users (January 2002)
• Report Back from the MSM IDU Forum (April 2000)
• The San Francisco Department of Public Health and AIDS Research Institute/UCSF Response to the Updated Estimates of HIV Infection in San Francisco, 2000 (August 2000)
• Good Questions Better Answers: A Formative Research Handbook for California HIV Prevention Programs (1997)
• A Buenas Preguntas…¡Mejores Respuestas!: Un manual de investigación formativa para los programas de prevención de VIH de California (1997)
• A Survey of AIDS Prevention Funders: Which Programs Are Funded, and Why? (April 1997)
• The Public Health Impact of Needle Exchange Programs in the United States and Abroad: Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations (1993)