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San Francisco Public Health to use $300,000 CDC grant to expand hepatitis B screening for foreign-born residents
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.
“A partnership between the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the San Francisco Hep B Free campaign” will use the funding to “test at least 3,000 foreign-born individuals for hepatitis B, to ensure they know their hepatitis B status and to link to care anyone who tests positive,” said Amy Nishimura, a viral hepatitis project coordinator for the department. She noted the city exceeded its year-one goal by screening more than 4,000 people under the earlier grant.
Supervisor Jane Moore thanked DPH and the Hep B Free campaign, saying testing and treatment access are critical for the Asian Pacific Islander community. The committee opened the item for public comment but received no speakers on the grant and moved the resolution forward with the committee’s recommendation to the full Board.
Next steps: the committee advanced the resolution to the full Board of Supervisors for final approval; no vote was recorded in committee.
