San Francisco AIDS Foundation: Syringe Access Services

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Organization Description

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation has a variety of services throughout San Francisco which offer education, advocacy and direct services for prevention and care. SAS has provided street-based syringe access services to injecting drug users (IDUs) since 1993. SAS has 11 sites per week is one of the nation's largest programs, providing more than 2.3 million clean syringes a year. The program is a harm reduction based program and provides safer injection supplies, HIV& HEP C testing, medical care, and drug overdose prevention trainings weekly.

Program Information

The student would be participating at the syringe access sites doing peer counseling, site support and supply distribution, maintaining and updating of our referral database, completing our monthly numbers for the Department of Public Health, and helping to do a lot of the logistical work that enables us to run 11 sites every week, participating in Project Homeless Connect (if the event falls during their time here), as well as attend weekly staff meetings and individual supervision.

Health & Safety
Address 
1035 Market Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
Website:
http://sfaf.org/client-services/syringe-access
Program(s) 
Health Education
Organization type 
Focus Population(s)
Focus Area(s)
Minimum required hours 
20
Maximum students 
1