Syringe Access Services

Syringe Access Services is sponsored by San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Provides harm reduction services, including safer injection supplies, overdose response training, and hepatitis C treatment.

Syringe Access Services - San Francisco AIDS Foundation July 3-4: SFAF locations & programs closed. Pick Up Crew available for rapid response. Our syringe access services program operates seven days a week at the 6th Street Center and in neighborhoods across San Francisco.

Our teams provide safer injection and substance use supplies that prevent the transmission of HIV and improve the health of people who use drugs. We also provide overdose response training and resources, cure people of hepatitis C, link people to social services, provide suboxone opioid replacement treatment, offer a syringe pickup service, and so much more.

We have provided street-based syringe access services to people who inject since 1993 and are one of the nation’s largest harm reduction programs. Syringe Access Services is made possible by collaborations with agencies across San Francisco and by more than 100 volunteers. Find out how you can join the team.

Syringe Access & Disposal Safer injection & disposal supplies, overdose prevention, and other harm reduction tools Hepatitis C Testing, Treatment & Navigation Free hepatitis C testing & treatment for people who formerly or currently inject, with social & group support No-judgement counseling and treatment for people interested in changing their relationship to drugs & alcohol Fentanyl test strips, Narcan (naloxone) and safer drug practice info to prevent and reverse overdose We offer the following supplies and resources Sterile needles/syringes, safer injection/ drug equipment and safe disposal supplies HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and hepatitis C testing Safe disposal of syringes and injection equipment Pregnancy tests and hormone checks On-site hepatitis C treatment, linkage and care Linkage to HIV treatment and care Weekly health education and substance use treatment and therapy groups Overdose prevention education and Narcan (naloxone) Non-judgmental drug education, counseling and treatment Medication-assisted treatment (suboxone) Harm reduction-based counseling Medical care (abscess assessment and care, wound care) The 6th Street Center is a place of welcome and a pathway to improved health and healing.

Located in the Tenderloin/SoMa neighborhood, the 6th Street Center provides health services and supplies that help people who inject drugs manage their health, prevent overdose, and stop HIV and hepatitis C transmission.