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CENTER FOR AIDS PREVENTION STUDIES

Stephen F. Morin, PhD, Director Susan M. Kegeles, PhD and Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD, Co-Directors

The mission of CAPS is to conduct domestic and international research to prevent the acquisition of HIV and to optimize health outcomes among HIV-infected individuals.

CAPS training program successfully promotes diversity

 

The Visiting Professor Program at UCSF is described as a national model for research training that promotes the success of scientists conducting innovative research in minority communities in a paper appearing in the April 2009 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. [read more...]

Social networking article on ABC News

"We became convinced that friends can be good medicine, and if we are able to increase the conversations in social networks about HIV, it can have a positive effect in decreasing the rate of infection," said Dr. Steve Morin.

Read the ABC News article "Looking for love and finding AIDS" about social networking sites.