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Find out what we learned at our Legislative Update in honor of #NWGHAAD! Our legislative update in honor of National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day took place yesterday, featuring: Tatyana Kalinga, District Director for Congresswoman Barbara Lee Caleb Smith, Special Assistant to Mayor Libby Schaaf Ingrid Floyd, WORLD Executive Director Erika Ramirez, Program Coordinator at The Latina Center Sylvia …
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This weekend’s Sister Circle support group will feature Isabella Ventura, Administrative Medical Director and nurse practitioner at AIDS Healthcare Foundation in San Francisco and Oakland. Isabella Ventura is a transgender woman and immigrant from the Philippines. She received her Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner minor in HIV education and training at the University of California, San Francisco. Isabella is a longtime …
Today, we at WORLD celebrate the inauguration of Oakland’s very own Kamala Devi Harris, the first person of color and the first woman to hold the second-highest office in the United States. WORLD is one of the first and longest-running organizations in the country focusing on an underserved and underrepresented community, women living with HIV. As Vice President Harris takes …
We’ll be hosting a PrEP education session with Deborah Wafer, Medical Scientist at Gilead Sciences, on Wednesday, December 16th! This session will be held over Zoom – if you will have any issues accessing remotely, limited seating will be available at WORLD. Please let us know ASAP if you would like to attend “in-house.” All participants will receive a thank-you …
Every year, we commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1st, in honor of our commitment to ending the HIV epidemic and creating a world in which people living with HIV/AIDS are able to get the treatment, care, and support that they need, free from the burdens of stigma and financial stress. In 2020, everyone has been forced to reckon with …
