Everything Matters | Chlorine | Pauli Gray and Emily Newman | Exploratorium
530 views · Published 17 December 2016 · 17:50 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: Exploratorium · 2016 · Education
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES: Staff from the San Francisco AIDS Foundation discuss chlorine and using clean needles to prevent transmission of HIV and HEP C. Learn how lethal chlorine leads to lifesaving sanitation. Pauli Gray and Emily Newman of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation will share the science behind using chlorine bleach to clean needles and syringes, and discuss the larger landscape of needle exchange and distribution in San Francisco and across the United States. Pauli Gray has been a harm reduction worker and activist since 1997. He has worked full-time at San Francisco AIDS Foundation since 1998 and part-time for the DOPE Project/Harm Reduction Coalition since 2004, focusing on Hepatitis C counseling and treatment access, needle exchanges, and overdose prevention. Gray runs harm reduction groups and Hepatitis C groups and gives individual counseling as well. Emily Newman, MA, is a social scientist, writer, and editor of BETA, an HIV and AIDS treatment, prevention and care publication established in 1988. She has worked at San Francisco AIDS Foundation for the past two years, is a regular volunteer for a women’s healthcare organization, and has worked in clinical research, HIV prevention, and social science research for over ten years.
