CAPS Exchange Newsletter
Winter 1999 Issue
 PDF version CAPS Exchange is a publication of the Center
for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), AIDS Research Institute,
University of California San Francisco. The goal of this
publication is to bring research findings and the voices
and experiences of academic researchers and research participants
to the broader HIV/AIDS prevention community. CAPS Exchange
is published by the Technology and Information Exchange (TIE)
Core of CAPS. CAPS Director: Articles may be reprinted and distributed without permission; however, copies may not be sold and CAPS should be cited as the source. ©1999 CAPS, University of California. |
Welcome to CAPS Exchange, a publication of the Technology and Information Exchange (TIE) Core at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, AIDS Research Institute, University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Our hope is that this publication will bring the voices and experiences of academic researchers and research participants as well as research findings to the broader HIV/AIDS prevention community. Now, let's describe who we are. The AIDS Research Institute (ARI), developed in 1997, facilitates collaboration and joint projects between the many institutes and laboratories working on HIV/AIDS at UCSF. You may be familiar with the AIDS Health Project, the Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital, the Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Clinic, or the Gladstone Institute of Virology. All these projects are part of UCSF and ARI, and ARI helps coordinate their basic, clinical, prevention and policy research efforts. The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), as one of the HIV/AIDS programs at UCSF, is also part of the ARI. CAPS is an HIV prevention research center. We include nearly 200 researchers and staff, and are currently conducting over 75 studies locally, nationally and internationally to better understand HIV primary and secondary prevention. CAPS studies range from understanding the experiences of women who use needle exchange programs in San Francisco to evaluating the impact of voluntary counseling and testing for HIV in Kenya, Tanzania and Trinidad; to developing interventions for HIV-seropositive gay men in San Jose; to assessing treatment access by different ethnic populations in the US. In CAPS Exchange, we will be presenting these studies, keeping you up-to-date on their progress and sharing the lessons learned. The TIE Core is the part of CAPS that integrates the research and community responses to the HIV epidemic. We bring community concerns to bear on CAPS research and get research findings to the community where they can inform programs and services. We do this through our CAPS web site (www.caps.ucsf.edu), HIV Prevention Fact Sheets, monographs, conferences and Town Hall meetings. The TIE Core provides consultation, technical assistance and referrals for community-based agencies and health departments through individual contacts (call 415/597-9396). The TIE Core also funded community-initiated collaborative research with 22 community based agency partners over the last 5 years along with our co-funders, Northern California Grantmakers, AIDS Task Force and the California State Office of AIDS. Welcome to the first issue of CAPS Exchange. We look forward to exchanging ideas with you about how research and community can best work together to end the HIV epidemic. Please fill out the enclosed reply card to let us know what you think of CAPS Exchange and what you would like to see on these pages. --Olga Grinstead, Director and Ellen Goldstein, Co-Director, TIE Core
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