h. h.i.v., so i'm going to show you two pieces of data.this is from an innovative analysis done of patients being seen at ward 86, in which if you go from left to right on your screen, from most stably housed, renting and owning, to being in a rehabilitation program, being in an s.r.o., hotel, couch surfing or staying with friends, shelters, and living in the streets or being outdoors, the proportion, the bars show the proportion of people who are virally suppressed. you can see as you become more marginally progressively housed, your viral suppression goes down, and the average viral load, that red line, goes up. we know that having a higher viral load is bad for the individual in terms of their health and bad for the risk of transmitting to others, so we know that homelessness is a major driver of new transmissions, and that we need to get to zero, to get to zero h.i.v. infections and zero h.i.v. associates deaths, we need to reach our homeless populations. this is an evaluation done under dr. shear's leadership in which we look the at 5

h and memoirs of own experience. in 1988, ashe was diagnosed with h.i.v.s, a result of two blood transfusions during one of his heart operations. he and his wife, jeannie, chose to keep it quiet, not speaking publicly until 1992, to head off a news report. >> it put me in the unenviable position of having to lie if i wanted to protect our privacy. no one should have to make that choice. >> brown: ashe became an ambassador for aids awareness and compassion. >> there's a tremendous amount of w public to assure them that ordinary contact with people like myself poses absolutely no dang to them. >> brown: arthur ashe died in 1993 at 49 of aids-related pneumonia. ray arsenault hano trouble imagining the man who would be 75 today. >> today, obviously, he'be taking a knee for justice with colin kaepernick and the other because he felt so-- >> brown: you think he would be? >> i have no doubt whatsoever, because the one thing-- he never complained about much of anything, but one thing he did complain about was the way that athletes were treated as sort of court jes

h.i.v. infections, traffic deaths, along with other very important health initiatives. our may i don't remembor has honfidence in our department by naming our chief financial officer as the acting director of health. and as -- and as we carry out our charter duties to help select repetitives to the mayor, we met with the mayor promptly after the resignation with a plan to help fill this very important position. it was clear from our meeting with the mayor that even the progress that we have made towards finding a new director are also in alignment. the charter calls for the commission to submit up to three names to the mayor for her consideration and selection; and she can accept any or none of them, and then, we would start again. we are believing that we actually will be able to help service the candidates for this very important office within a time frame which is somewhat aggressive, as miss calhlahan has told us, but very important for us to continue to move along because of all the important things, even some of which you heard this afternoon are in progress. this department cannot suddenly sto