Podcasts about prevencasa

In the second of a four-part series based on “Tomorrow Is a Long Time: Tijuana’s Unchecked HIV/AIDS Epidemic,” Dr. Jose Luis Burgos guides medical students from UC San Diego and Universidad Autónoma de Baja California as they offer free health care at HFiT, the Health Frontiers in Tijuana clinic at Prevencasa. The segment also features an HIV telemedicine project that spares patients a long journey to CAPASITS, the government-run HIV/AIDS clinic across town, and the Tattoo Removal Clinic, a project led by UC San Diego’s Victoria Ojeda that helps people become more presentable to potential employers. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 30006]

In the second of a four-part series based on “Tomorrow Is a Long Time: Tijuana’s Unchecked HIV/AIDS Epidemic,” Dr. Jose Luis Burgos guides medical students from UC San Diego and Universidad Autónoma de Baja California as they offer free health care at HFiT, the Health Frontiers in Tijuana clinic at Prevencasa. The segment also features an HIV telemedicine project that spares patients a long journey to CAPASITS, the government-run HIV/AIDS clinic across town, and the Tattoo Removal Clinic, a project led by UC San Diego’s Victoria Ojeda that helps people become more presentable to potential employers. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 30006]

The four-part HIV/SIDA series follows UC San Diego epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee, psychologist Tom Patterson and their binational team of doctors, researchers, medical students and outreach workers as they document the spread of HIV in Tijuana. Starting at El Bordo in the Tijuana River Canal and moving to the clinics at Prevencasa, the Las Memorias AIDS hospice and then inside the Tijuana Police Academy, this series shows their efforts to treat and prevent HIV infection among high risk groups, including people who inject drugs, sex workers, transgender women and men who have sex with men. Also featured are photographs and stories of those impacted by HIV, as portrayed by Malcolm Linton and Jon Cohen in their book, “Tomorrow Is a Long Time.” The series concludes with an assessment of what it would take to end HIV/AIDS in Tijuana. Funding for the book and series was provided by the Ford Foundation. Series: "HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 30004]

The four-part HIV/SIDA series follows UC San Diego epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee, psychologist Tom Patterson and their binational team of doctors, researchers, medical students and outreach workers as they document the spread of HIV in Tijuana. Starting at El Bordo in the Tijuana River Canal and moving to the clinics at Prevencasa, the Las Memorias AIDS hospice and then inside the Tijuana Police Academy, this series shows their efforts to treat and prevent HIV infection among high risk groups, including people who inject drugs, sex workers, transgender women and men who have sex with men. Also featured are photographs and stories of those impacted by HIV, as portrayed by Malcolm Linton and Jon Cohen in their book, “Tomorrow Is a Long Time.” The series concludes with an assessment of what it would take to end HIV/AIDS in Tijuana. Funding for the book and series was provided by the Ford Foundation. Series: "HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 30004]