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San Francisco Public Health to use $300,000 CDC grant to expand hepatitis B screening for foreign-born residents

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee · November 13, 2013
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Summary

The Department of Public Health will accept a $300,000 CDC grant to screen at least 3,000 foreign-born residents for hepatitis B and link people who test positive to care; the City’s Hep B Free partnership helped exceed prior-year screening targets.

The San Francisco Department of Public Health will accept a $300,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand hepatitis B screening and linkage-to-care efforts for foreign-born residents, department staff told the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee on Nov. 13.

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