UCSF has been working for the past 30 years as a leader in AIDS basic and clinical research, patient care, policy development and community and global outreach – efforts that continue today.

As we mark World AIDS Day this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention reports that more than a million Americans now live with the disease, and every year some 50,000 people in the United States alone are newly infected.

The New Generation Health Center, which seeks to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections among high-risk youth in San Francisco, is hosting a fundraiser on December 1 to support its community outreach activities.

UCSF Fitness & Recreation Centers at the Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses are free to employees from December 1 through December 14.

University of California President Mark G. Yudof has named a 15-member advisory committee of university chancellors, faculty, administrators, staff and students to help with the national search for the next provost, the university's highest-ranking academic officer.

A cheaper laboratory test that helps guide anti-retroviral drug treatment for people with HIV/AIDS may be just as effective as a more sophisticated test, a group of international researchers has found – a discovery that could be particularly important in rural Africa.