Vincent Crisostomo

Vincent Anthony Crisostomo (born 1961, Tachikawa, Japan) is an HIV AIDS activist from Guam. As of 2022, he was serving as Director of Aging Services at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF). Previously, he served as Program Manager of SFAF's Elizabeth Taylor 50-Plus Network at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Personal life Crisostomo grew up Catholic in a religious Chamorro family. He attended church frequently and was an altar boy as well as a member of the church choir. While the church provided a sense of community, it also promoted intolerance of homosexuality. Eventually, this prompted Crisostomo to leave the church and his home.

Crisostomo himself contracted HIV in 1987

HIV/AIDS Work Crisostomo first learned about HIV/AIDS in December 1983, while living in Japan. When he visited San Francisco in summer 1984, it felt like "a ghost town".

He continued to travel back to Guam and the Pacific area to provide assistance on HIV AIDS capacity building and service provision.

Coral Life Foundation In 2000, Crisostomo moved from San Francisco to Guam to become the executive director of the Coral Life Foundation, a community-based organization working on HIV AIDS in the Asia-Pacific Area. He also served as Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Asia Pacific NGO Delegate from 2009 to 2010.

50-Plus Network Crisostomo currently facilitates the 50-Plus Network through the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Publications Crisostomo has co-authored two academic papers on HIV AIDS.

Wong et al. (2011) Development and implementation of a collaborative, multistakeholder research and practice model on HIV prevention targeting Asian/Pacific Islander men in the United States who have sex with men. Am J Public Health Apr 17;101(4):623-31 Nemoto et al. (2003) HIV risk and prevention among Asian/Pacific Islander men who have sex with men: listen to our stories. AIDS Educ Prev Feb;15(1 Suppl A):7-20