and the indicators for success actually come from hrsa. it is not different. the cascade, which you heard of, the gardiner cascade, and at a federal level they're probably going to tighten this a little more with the money based on the cascade. >> supervisor mandelman: cool. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. and then i have one last question. so are we seeing that we have any increase in infections among black women and are we seeing instances of black women who are pregnant that are h.i.v. positive? >> i can give you information i have from about 4-5 months ago. dean may have more recent. we can go and look at it. in san francisco, our population living with h.i.v. are by and large older than the national average. we compare more with the v.a. system than other parts. that's also true with our women, especially african-american. most of them are post reproductive years. we do fund a program which does specifically work with pregnant. we haven't seen an up tick in that women testing positive. just to be fair, the h.i.v. testing diminished because of c

and the indicators for success actually come from hrsa. it is not different. the cascade, which you heard of, the gardiner cascade, and at a federal level they're probably going to tighten this a little more with the money based on the cascade. >> supervisor mandelman: cool. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. and then i have one last question. so are we seeing that we have any increase in infections among black women and are we seeing instances of black women who are pregnant that are h.i.v. positive? >> i can give you information i have from about 4-5 months ago. dean may have more recent. we can go and look at it. in san francisco, our population living with h.i.v. are by and large older than the national average. we compare more with the v.a. system than other parts. that's also true with our women, especially african-american. most of them are post reproductive years. we do fund a program which does specifically work with pregnant. we haven't seen an up tick in that women testing positive. just to be fair, the h.i.v. testing diminished because of c