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Hopefully this will improve your commute and make it more pleasant. We will have a live report from teresa. Not that teresa. Robert moses is on transportation. Ben we are talking about pushing half 1 billion. Im looking at the list and people are in the studio and someone is not on here. Ines bought the tickets. She is taking a stand for people who say they are in. Ines know, negativity. Juliet i did not have four dollars. I am not in. Ben i did not know you are so hard up. I dont carry cash. Ju...

So their effectiveness is probably 80 in preventing hiv transmission. And so the next slide is really about paying for prep because it could be expensive. The great news is the cdc made the recommendation that its provided. Medical covers this in california and medicaid nationally. Most employee sponsored programs pay for it and we have patient assistance programs outlined here but its a complex situation and people seeking prep need a lot of assistance because each plan within a Given Program p...

Package are both the sides as well as some slides on injection drug use and the program that the city has to address those because you asked that before. Tracy packer is sitting here and available to answer any questions that you may have about this. I want to mention tracy is also a important member of the Population Health hiv working crew that you see listed on the slides and with two members of the gain to zero [inaudible] so im going to tell you a little bit about this collective impact ini...

Item and id be happy to answer any questions or dr. Chow our commissioner singer if youve anything to add to that. I think i would add for commissioners to be aware that the committee is rewriting the process for the review of contracts that currently [inaudible] at 500,000 will cover 90 percent of our contacts at cost. It actually would then allow us to really look at a lower number of contracts themselves and can do better. And im courage you all look at what will be the draft proposal that wi...

Successful in getting people prep is having the navigators that help them arrange the appropriate insurance and find providers willing to provide it, so we have a three pronged approach for what is needed for prep. We need assistance from providers. There are providers not comfortable providing prep so support for the new prep clinics and training on line tools and assistance for the users and we still have the disparities and we need the information about availability into the communities most ...

Good morning supervisors. I am jeff sheea and living with hiv and i was the hiv advocate to gavin newsom and serve on the governing board on the California Institute of regenerative medicine. Thank you supervisor wieners and supervisor campos for sponsoring this meeting and thank you supervisor farrell for the opportunity to present today and thank you Barbara Garcia and the department of Public Health and i am part of the consortium and were here to talk about the historic opportunity for San F...

Sometime in january or february so everyone can contribute to that discussion before we approve the new policy. Then, other things that we looked at today, its on your consent calendar including the new site approval for house [inaudible] they are going to move from their Current Location that is been [inaudible] for over 20 years for a new location on Howard Street and also on the consent calendar you have order court contracts that need your approval as well as 2014 december contract reports. ...

People have access, not just to testing, but also to treatment, and also to prep, and i know we have to continue to do a lot of work to make sure that were expanding access to preexposure prove axis and i asked to be assigned to the Budget Committee because i know were all working hard to come forward with a proposal for the next budget to make sure were funding some of these getting to zero efforts so its exciting and i look forward to working with everyone and move forward, and i want to offer...

There are providers not comfortable providing prep so support for the new prep clinics and training on line tools and assistance for the users and we still have the disparities and we need the information about availability into the communities most impacted by hiv. We would like to set up a user hot line so people can call and get information. Theres a lot of questions that individuals have about prep and we need to address affordability and then we want to measure the impact of prep, both theu...