S2 Ep5 Speaking Frankly: Confronting structural racism in healthcare with Dante King

We talk with anti-racist activist, Dante King. He’s worked with organizations like the San Francisco Metropolitan transportation agency and the San Francisco Department of Public Health to cultivate environments that are anti-racist and inclusive.

He discusses how capitalism reinforces racism, the creation of anti-blackness through policy, and the systems and structures that have led to white supremacist ideology.

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CAPTC Podcast—Coming Together for Sexual Health

We speak with a diversity of voices about the vast dimensions to what it means to have and create good sexual health.

Join us, and let’s come together for sexual health!

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S2 Ep4 Speaking Frankly: Why sex positivity can transform healthcare with JaDawn Wright

“Sex positivity” has become quite a buzzy phrase in sexual health and advocacy spaces in the last decade. But what does that actually mean in practice? Today we will talk with JaDawn Wright of the Pacific Aids Education training Center, about just that.

JaDawn is the Deputy Director of the organization and a long-term trainer in the world of sexual health. She tells us why creating healthcare experiences that are welcoming, nonjudgmental, and unbiased can go so far in helping us realize positive health outcomes.

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S2 Ep3 Speaking Frankly: Examining structural racism in healthcare with Ana Delgado, CNM

Ana Delgado, CNM, is a Clinical Professor in the UC San Francisco Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco General Hospital Division. Ana acts as the Assistant Director of Inpatient Obstetrics and Co-Director for Anti-Racism, Equity, Inclusion and Structural Change. Ana talks with us about racial inequities in healthcare, how structural racism permeates every facet of life, and why “race is always an issue for folks who are racialized.”

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S2 Ep2 Speaking Frankly: Supporting youths’ choice to parent with Dr. Aisha Mays

Dr. Aisha Mays is a Family Physician who focuses on Adolescent Medicine. She is the Founder and Medical Director of the Dream Youth Clinic of Roots Community Health Center, in Oakland, California — a youth-led, youth-engaged adolescent clinic co-located within Oakland’s two youth shelters.

Dr. Mays’ work centers on adolescent reproductive health, reproductive justice for highly vulnerable youth, and the health risks associated with childhood commercial sexual exploitation. Her research focuses on exploring reproductive justice barriers and supporting sexual health for youth.

On this episode, we talk with Dr. Mays about her important work.

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S2 Ep1 Speaking Frankly: Welcoming the new CAPTC Director, Dana Cropper

Dana Cropper recently took the helm of the California Prevention Training Center as its new Director, after Alice Gandelman’s retirement. Dana previously served as Director of Education at HealthHIV.

In this debut episode of Speaking Frankly season two, we talk with Dana about her new position, why Oprah and Sojourner Truth are two of her heroes, and why she thinks to reduce stigma, we must each engage in deep and ongoing self-reflection “about how we navigate through the world”.

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S1 Ep8 Speaking Frankly: Rolling out the first injectable HIV treatment

On Jan 21, 2021, the FDA approved Cabenuva, the first once-monthly injectable HIV treatment for adults. Dr. Kelly Johnson, a fellow in infectious diseases and in sexually transmitted diseases at the University of California, San Francisco, explains the implications of this new treatment and how it affects the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV.

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S1 Ep7 Speaking Frankly: How effective are the COVID-19 vaccines? w/Dr. Monica Gandhi

Dr. Monica Gandhi is an infectious disease physician and professor of medicine at UCSF, and the Medical Director of the Ward 86 clinic. She talks about the efficacy of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine (that was submitted to the FDA for Emergency Use Authorization on 2/8/2021), and theorizes as to when we may return to some normalcy.

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S1 Ep6 Speaking Frankly: Fighting STIgma with humor & honesty w/Dr. Ina Park

In Dr. Ina Park’s new book, Strange Bedfellows, she helps readers understand the broad impact of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), while removing the unfair stigma. She speaks with us about the writing process, tackling sex ed with her own kids, and how stigma impacts mental and physical health.

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S1 Ep5 Speaking Frankly: What’s driving the rise in Congenital Syphilis? w/ Dr. Plotzker

Congenital syphilis (CS) is up 900% in California since 2012. UC San Francisco’s Dr. Rosalyn Plotzker speaks with us about CS prevention and treatment and about the complex issues contributing to the spike, like systemic racism.

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