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Your gift(s) to San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) and the Los Angeles LGBT Center help us provide the following essential services for prevention and care (links directly to AIDS/LifeCycle website). Click this link to donate. While government funding sometimes provides the bulk of the resources to deliver vital services, private support like yours bridges the gap (an average of 30%) and provides us the resources to expand critical services beyond current government funding limitations and fully serve those in need.

What is SFAF?  SFAF works to end HIV in San Francisco where it first took hold and eventually everywhere. Established in 1982, our mission is the radical reduction of new infections in San Francisco because we refuse to accept HIV as inevitable. We continue to be guided by three ambitious goals for 2016:

  • Reduce new HIV infections by 50%, through health services including testing, treatment as prevention, syringe access and support services for 1,500 African-Americans, Latinos, and newly diagnosed men
  • Ensure all San Franciscans know their HIV status, through over 10,000 HIV tests at five locations in neighborhood “hot spots” and an HIV testing van delivering services citywide
  • Ensure access to proper care for all HIV-positive San Franciscans, through advocacy targeting Medicaid expansion and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and expanding sexual health services.


Here is how your donation at the SFAF makes a difference ...
  • $50,000 helps a substance use counselor see 40 clients a year for harm reduction counseling.
  • $25,000 funds a half-time peer advocate see 50 clients for a year.
  • $15,000 helps 120 Magnet clients receive sexual health services, including HIV and STD tests.
  • $10,000 provides substance use counseling services for more than 250 clients in one month.
  • $7,500 provides a nurse to administer STI screenings and treatments to 100 clients.
  • $5,000 funds our mobile testing unit for one year so that 2,400 gay, bi and trans men can be tested.
  • $2,500 helps four HIV-positive people receive safe and stable housing situations for one month.
  • $1,000 provides two Positive Force community forums where 150 men can learn more about HIV.
  • $500 helps 15 people receive medical benefits counseling to obtain prescription drug assistance.
  • $250 provides ten Rapid HIV Antibody test to test ten people at Magnet, and other foundation sites.
  • $175 provides case management for 15 HIV-positive clients who are marginally housed.
  • $150 provides 1,000 syringes through the street-based Syringe Access Service.
  • $100 provides the travel cost for a Treatment Advocacy Coordinator to attend the medical appointments of 25 clients.
  • $25 helps a Financial Benefits counselor assist one person in navigating benefits systems.
  • $10 can help provide 143 condoms to our clients at all of our service sites.
In addition to our programs and services, our public policy work has a national scope: we are helping develop and implement the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, as well as the formulation of HIV/AIDS components of national healthcare reform legislation. Your support helps people in every corner of the country who are impacted by HIV.

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What is the Los Angeles LGBT Center?

Since 1969, the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond. Today the Center’s more than 550 employees provide services for more LGBT people than any other organization in the world, offering programs, services, and global advocacy that span four broad categories: Health, Social Services and Housing, Culture and Education, and Leadership and Advocacy. They are an unstoppable force in the fight against bigotry and the struggle to build a better world; a world in which LGBT people can be healthy, equal, and complete members of society.

Here is how your donation at the Los Angeles LGBT Center makes a difference ...
  • $50,000 underwrites the cost of comprehensive HIV wraparound services by a case management team for 3 months for 135 patients
  • $35,000 funds an HIV Counselor for 1,200 clients per year
  • $25,000 covers 5 months of mental health therapy for 28 patients
  • $15,000 provides comprehensive sexual health services, including HIV and STD tests, treatment, education, and counseling to 100 clients
  • $10,000 covers 3 months of psychosocial case management for 300 patients
  • $7,500 provides a nurse for one month to administer STD screening and treatments for 400 clients
  • $5,000 covers a full year of laboratory testing for 11 patients
  • $1,000 covers a full year of medical supply costs for 40 patients
  • $1,000 funds one client receiving Post Exposure Prophylaxis
  • $250 provides Rapid HIV Antibody tests to 20 clients
  • $180 provides HIV prevention counseling sessions to 20 teenagers
  • $150 provides comprehensive HIV/STD testing to 1 client
  • $30 covers the treatment medication for 1 client infected with an STD
  • $10 buys 114 condoms that the Health Education and Prevention Program will distribute

Measure of Success
  • Money raised by participants has grown from $4.7 million in 2002 to more than $16.7million in 2019
  • As donations have grown, our costs have decreased
If you are concerned about the funds that go to SFAF and the Los Angeles LGBT Center, please visit the following Charity Navigator links to see how our two organizations rate as a non-profits:





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