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When we see pieces of ourselves in media, then we know that the characters have found a truth. Our hope then is that others learn and feel.

Rest in Power, Margo St. James

Virtual PrEP for kids under 26 years of age. Costs covered by assistance programs. Teen and Young Adult Clinic at (650) 497-2701 for more information. Here is how it works: Participants use a cellphone or computer to connect with the Stanford health team. After their initial appointment, Stanford staff mails them at-home HIV tests. (It’s important that people taking PrEP are HIV negative.) Prescriptions are then filled at patients’ local pharmacies. Clients meet with a PrEP navigator via video every two weeks and can have the required lab work done every three months at a local clinic.

Participants use a cellphone or computer to connect with the Stanford health team. After their initial appointment, Stanford staff mails them at-home HIV tests. (It’s important that people taking PrEP are HIV negative.) Prescriptions are then filled at patients’ local pharmacies. Clients meet with a PrEP navigator via video every two weeks and can have the "required lab work done every three months at a local clinic."

Are you ready to take the jump?

Rep. Sims puts it very well.

H/t to local HCV activist, Bill Remak

We met Michele at at The Spahr Center's Overdose Awareness Day event at Noon and she invites us to speak at her event in the evening. Watch this KTVU clip on the power of grief and its ability to intervene in the crisis. Michelle's Marin group can be accessed at naranonhopeafterloss.org

Read any good books lately?

Read up on the latest research out of the recent virtual conference that "sort of" brought the World's best minds to San Francisco.

The Spahr Center was awarded $228,900 in state funding over a three-year period to support our Syringe Access Program. The funding pays for existing staffing and operations of the program, and also allows us to build a consumer advisory committee with paid interns to help in staffing the syringe exchange sites. Part of the funding helps us to increase our outreach in communities of color, and to build greater equity into our service provision. This is really fantastic news. The Syringe Access Program, and the Naloxone distribution program that is part of it, are true lifesavers. But their funding has been piecemeal and unstable for many years. This significant investment of state funds puts the program on secure footing for three years

More than half of all married same-sex couples in the United States married after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Wedding spending by these 293,000 couples and their out-of-state guests has boosted state and local economies by an estimated $3.8 billion, generated an estimated $244 million in state and local sales tax revenue, and supported approximately 45,000 jobs for one full year.