Syringe Access
San Francisco AIDS Foundation has provided street-based syringe access services to injecting drug users (IDUs) since 1993.
The syringe access program currently has 11 sites a week and is one of the nation's largest programs, providing more than 2.3 million clean syringes a year. The program is driven by more than 80 volunteers.
Not only does the syringe access program provide safer injection supplies, it also offers community-based services such as HIV testing, drug treatment referrals and medical care.
Looking for syringe access sites?
Interested in volunteering?
Read more, or just go to our online registration form and tell us about yourself!
Want or need other information?
Check the Frequently Asked Questions page, call (415) 241-5100 or email us at hpp@sfaf.org.
What's this got to do with a Public Health State of Emergency?
It's true, our syringe access program, then known as "needle exchange" once inspired the mayor of San Francisco to declare an ongoing public health state of emergency. Read about it in our special article "History of Health: Needle Exchange in San Francisco."
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