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Call or text (619) 961-6954 if you're interested in this study!

Right now is the best time to register for the 2020 National #CFAR Virtual meeting. Learn about #HIV research & care! Connect with others! http://ow.ly/ZQuH50BV2y6

We invite you to our next HIV & Global Health (#HIGH) Rounds presentation on October 23 @ 8am: Treatments for COVID-19 Davey Smith, MD, MAS Professor of Medicine... Head, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health Co-Director, San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Department of Medicine University of California, San Diego A Zoom meeting link will be sent out on the HIGH Rounds listserv. To be added to the listserv, complete the form at the following link: http://j.mp/2EufaLx.

Watch the live Filipino COVID-19 Taskforce Virtual Town Hall on the T3 Strategy and the need for disaggregated data!

Get your flu shot!

The AVRC is participating in the #ACTIV2 Outpatient Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Therapies Trial, evaluating investigational agents to treat COVID-19. ACTIV-2 aims to develop a treatment that can prevent people with COVID-19 from developing advanced disease that requires hospitalization. People in the San Diego area who have recently been diagnosed with COVID-19 and are not hospitalized have the opportunity to make a huge contribution by participating in ACTIV-2. Visit www.activ-2.org/activ-2-study or call Rose Ramirez at (619) 543-5010 for more details and to participate!

Chronic pain impacts a large proportion of aging people living with HIV (aPLWH) and involves factors directly related to HIV (neurotoxicity) and psychosocial co-morbidities common in aPLWH (i.e. social isolation and loneliness). The investigators hypothesize that novel interventions that acknowledge these psychosocial co-morbidities may improve the efficacy of chronic pain management and minimize the use of potentially dangerous medications. This grant proposes to adapt and pilot a pain psychotherapy approach using group acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in aPLWH with chronic pain.

In case you missed it, here's a recording of our presentation with San Ysidro Health on COVID-19 in San Diego and potential vaccines, hosted by the Sweetwater Union High School District.

Timothy Ray Brown, who made history as the Berlin patient, the first person known to be cured of HIV infection, died Sept. 29 at his home in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 54.

We invite you to our next HIV & Global Health (#HIGH) Rounds presentation on October 2 @ 8am: The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe and North America Joel Wertheim, PhD Associate Professor ... Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health Department of Medicine University of California, San Diego A Zoom meeting link will be sent out on the HIGH Rounds listserv. To be added to the listserv, complete the form at the following link: http://j.mp/2EufaLx.

Call or text (619) 961-6954 if you're interested!

Check out this great tracker from the NY Times that lists the status of all the investigational COVID-19 vaccines that have reached trials in humans, along with a selection of promising vaccines still being tested in cells or animals.