How concerned should you be about MRSA? What are the signs and symptoms? What can you do to prevent getting it or passing it on? What is the City and Department of Public Health’s plan to address this? How can the media and community advocates respond to health issues without pathologizing gay men’s sexuality?
Panelists include: - Dr. Chip Chambers, co-author of the recent study on staph infections - Dr. Erica Pan and Dr. Ken Katz, Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, SFDPH - Shane Snowden, Director of UCSF LGBT Resources - Dr. Rick Loftus, local physician and community health advocate
facilitated by Hunter Hargraves, STOP AIDS Project
This event was cosponsored by San Francisco AIDS Foundation, SF Department of Public Health, Gay Men’s Community Initiative, UCSF AIDS Health Project, San Francisco LGBT Community Center, and other community groups.