SF combats rise in HIV infections among homeless

“Fourteen percent of our new diagnoses are homeless and the national guidelines say that that proportion should be no greater than 5 percent as our goal,” Dr. Susan Buchbinder, director of the Health Department’s Bridge HIV, a branch of the department dedicated to HIV prevention, told the Health Commission last week. “Homelessness is also a substantial contributor to deaths among people living with HIV.”  Read the entire article by By Joshua Sabatini here