Watch the video
Edward Machtinger, MD, Program Director, describes why WHP is unique.
News
Features
*Edward Machtinger, our Director will be presenting at a news conference at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC on July 23, 2012 on recent research coming out of WHP on how trauma fuels the HIV crisis among women.
*Rhodessa Jones and the Medea Troupe will be a feature performance at the 2012 National HIV and Viral Hepatitis Summit on November 26-28, 2012 in Washington, DC
Edward Machtinger, Director of WHP, recently published two major studies that describe the key role that trauma and PTSD play in the HIV epidemic among women. To read the UCSF press release click here
This finding has received wide attention including on the front page of the SF Chronicle. click here on NPR/KQED click here and the Voice of America click here
*Rhodessa Jones & The Women's HIV Program were featured in the Sunday Review of the San Francisco Chronicle on February 22,2010, to read the article,
please click here.
*Edward Machtinger, our Director, and Ruth Greenblatt, our founder, were featured on KQED's television program, QUEST, where they discussed the newest developments on treating HIV/AIDS. To view the program, please click here.
Conferences
Overcoming Health Disparities in the Bay Area using HIV/AIDS as a Model May 23 - 24, 2012, San Francisco, CA
17th Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)
February 16-19, 2010, San Francisco, CA
Dr. Edward Machtinger, presented a poster at CROI: A Simple Screening Question about Recent Trauma Predicts HIV-related Health Outcomes and Transmission Risk Behavior among HIV+ Women and Female-identified Transgenders. To view the abstract,
please click here.
Research/Publications
Coming Soon!