We are pleased to announce the release of the video of the Conant Foundation’s community forum on HIV/Hepatitis C Co-infection held on March 17th in San Francisco. Click here to get more information on the forum.
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Once again, thank you to all of you who have participated in our Sculptra Fundraising Program! As a way of saying thank you for all of your support, we are now beginning the Conant Foundation Free Sculptra Treatment Program for those with facial lipodystrophy syndrome (FLS).
The Conant Foundation is sponsoring eight free treatments of Sculptra per month. (These typically cost $400 per treatment.) Patients who qualify for free Sculptra treatment will have their names placed into a lottery. Those who are selected will be treated with Sculptra (1-6 times) over a period of 6 months until it is the judgment of the provider that adequate correction/restoration has been made.
Thank you to all of those who attended our Sculptra Fundraiser Sunday, May 24th at the Mix Bar on 18th street. A special thanks goes out to all of our friends and colleagues who volunteered their time: Larry Metzger, Ross Crum, Bebe Sweetbriar, Sylvia Hernandez, John Lopez, Paul Montwillo, DJ Aubrey, John Battieger and Brian McConnell.
The great news is that we raised over $1300.00, which will help continue our efforts in educating people about sexual health issues facing our community.
The Conant Foundation is excited to announce a series of fundraising events that will put a smile on many faces. On Sunday, May 24th, the Conant Foundation will be hosting the kickoff of our summer Sculptra fundraising program.
Where will be be? We will start at our Castro neighborhood bar: The Mix on Sunday May 24th!
We are happy to release the Conant Foundation’s coverage of the HIV/Hepatitis C Co-infection Community Forum held on March 17th in San Francisco. If you were unable to attend, or would like to review the information you heard, please feel free to download the PDF.
Please feel free to pass this document along.
hiv-hcv-co-infection-forum.pdf
Click here to read local press coverage of our event!
On March 17th the Conant Foundation, along with our co-sponsors Project Inform and the Black Coalition on AIDS held an important community forum on HIV and Hepatitis C co-infection. If you would like to read more about this event as well as learn more about this important topic affecting our community, please check out the following articles from our local press:
Bay Area Reporter: Hep C in HIVers may cause rapid liver disease
San Francisco Bay Times: Community Forum on HIV/Hep C Co-infection at the LGBT Center
Thank you to our guest speaker, Dr. Fierer, our panelists, Dr. Hare and Dr. Peters, as well as those who attended.
Stay tuned for the upcoming release of the video!
The Conant Foundation will be hosting an important forum on March 17th, 2009 (6:30-8:30pm ) in the Rainbow Room at the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center (1800 Market Street at Octavia). This event will be moderated by Marcus A. Conant, M.D., and the panel will consist of Daniel Fierer, M.D. from Mt. Sinai in New York City, as well as Brad Hare, M.D. and Marion Peters, M.D. from UCSF.
Last month at the Sixteenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Montreal, Dr. Daniel Fierer presented some alarming findings on HIV/Hepatitis C co-infection as it relates to rapid liver fibrosis. Our forum will focus on these findings as well as the variables in treatment and new treatments that are coming down the research pipeline, followed by a question and answer session with our audience. We view HCV as a formidable foe, deserving of our community’s attention and response.
The Conant Foundation, along with our sponsors Black Coalition on AIDS and Project Inform, hope that you and/or your clients will be able to attend this important community forum.
