Are you looking to get connected or re-connected to care?
- San Francisco City Clinic —Sexual Health Services
- San Francisco AIDS Foundation — Services & Communities
- HIV Care Options in San Francisco: A guide to San Francisco’s clinics, providers, and the healthcare coverage they accept (Updated May 2024)
- *Just Added* (Re)connect to HIV care/Conéctese con cuidado médico para VIH — Linkage resources for people experiencing homelessness or unstable housing
- SF HIV Benefits Options: How to pay for health care and medication so you can stay in care and undetectable (Updated May 2024)
- RAPID HIV Care Options in SF: A guide to rapid entry into care and treatment for people newly diagnosed or re-starting in care for HIV (Updated May 2024)
- *New* SF Options for Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) HIV Medications: A guide to San Francisco’s clinics & providers that offer CAB-LA for prevention and CAB/RPV for treatment, clients they serve, and healthcare coverage they accept [July 2024]
- Income Thresholds: Medi-Cal Expansion, CA Office of AIDS Programs & Healthy San Francisco (Updated April 2024)
- California PrEP Assistance Program (PrEP-AP) At a Glance: For Clients + Providers
- FREE healthcare and counseling for youth ages 12-25 (2022) – Community Health Programs for Youth (CHPY), San Francisco Health Networks
- SFDPH HIV Health Services — Resource to access HIV services in San Francisco
- The Gender Institute – San Francisco Transgender Resource Guide (May 2024)
Are you looking for HIV/STI prevention or treatment resources?
Prevention Resources
- *Updated* About Doxy-PEP — San Francisco City Clinic
- *Updated* Acerca de Doxy-PEP — San Francisco City Clinic
- *New* Injectable PrEP Basics/Lo Esencial de la PrEP inyectable — by San Francisco Department of Public Health
- *New* Ask your clinic about long-acting injectable medication that can prevent & treat HIV [QR code] – by San Francisco Department of Public Health
- *Nuevo* Pregunta en tu clínica por el medicatmento de acción prolongada inyectable que previene y trata el VIH [QR code] – por El Departamento de Salud Publica de San Francisco
- *New* SF Options for Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) HIV Medications: A guide to San Francisco’s clinics & providers that offer CAB-LA for prevention and CAB/RPV for treatment, clients they serve, and healthcare coverage they accept [July 2024]
- PrEP Basics Fact Sheet/Lo Esencial de PrEP – by San Francisco Department of Public Health
- About CAB-LA PrEP (adapted from SFAF) – in English (and in Spanish)
- Comparing Options for PrEP (chart includes pill & injectable options) – SFAF (English and Spanish)
- Truvada® is going generic on September 30, 2020: Update for San Francisco PrEP Users (updated 10/14/20)– by San Francisco Department of Public Health
Treatment & Care Resources
- *New* Ask your clinic about long-acting injectable medication that can prevent & treat HIV [QR code] – by San Francisco Department of Public Health
- *Nuevo* Pregunta en tu clínica por el medicatmento de acción prolongada inyectable que previene y trata el VIH [QR code] – por El Departamento de Salud Publica de San Francisco
- *New* SF Options for Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) HIV Medications: A guide to San Francisco’s clinics & providers that offer CAB-LA for prevention and CAB/RPV for treatment, clients they serve, and healthcare coverage they accept [July 2024]
- U=U Basics Undetectable=Untransmisible/I=I Lo Básico Indetectable=Intransmisible – by San Francisco Department of Public Health
- #UequalsUSF/ Undetectable = Untransmittable: – Website with resources for providers and community members
- SF HIV Benefits Options: How to pay for health care and medication so you can stay in care and undetectable (Updated May 2024)
- RAPID HIV Care Options in SF: A guide to rapid entry into care and treatment for people newly diagnosed or re-starting in care for HIV (Updated May 2024)
Resources for Providers/Clinicians
doxy-PEP Guidance & Resources
- CDC Clinical Guidelines on the Use of Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis for Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention, United States, 2024. MMWR Recomm Rep 2024;73(No. RR-2):1–8. Link: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/rr/pdfs/rr7302a1-H.pdf
- *Updated* San Francisco City Clinic Doxy-PEP fact sheet for healthcare providers in San Francisco, September 2024
- *Updated* SFDPH Health Update: Updated Recommendations for Prescribing Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (DoxyPEP), September 12, 2024
Injectable HIV Medications for Prevention & Treatment (i.e. CAB-LA and CAB/RPV)
- Apretude Insurance Flowsheet, November 2023
- *New* Ask your clinic about long-acting injectable medication that can prevent & treat HIV [QR code] – by San Francisco Department of Public Health
- *Nuevo*Pregunta en tu clínica por el medicatmento de acción prolongada inyectable que previene y trata el VIH [QR code] – por El Departamento de Salud Publica de San Francisco
- *New* SF Options for Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) HIV Medications: A guide to San Francisco’s clinics & providers that offer CAB-LA for prevention and CAB/RPV for treatment, clients they serve, and healthcare coverage they accept [May 2024]
- Injectable HIV Medications and PrEP – Resources compiled by East Bay Getting to Zero
- Injectable HIV PrEP Pocket Card – by San Francisco Department of Public Health
- *Just Added* [Protocol] MXM Administration of Sunleca (LENACAPRAVIR) – Instructions for Nursing Staff & Providers
- [Protocol] SF WPIC/Street Medicine Open Access Clinic: Long-Acting Injectable PrEP (IM Cabotegravir)
- [Protocol] SF Ward 86 Ward 86 Long-Acting Injectable Antiretroviral Guidelines (May 2024)
- [Tipsheet] Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) ART & PrEP: The frontline worker’s role in team-based care – SF HIV FOG/San Francisco Department of Public Health
HIV Testing
- Pacific AETC HIV Essentials and Quick Clinical Guides PDF, updated in May 2023 and approved by HRSA in summer 2023
PrEP/Prevention
- *Updated* Ask about PrEP: How providers can prescribe PrEP to prevent HIV and reduce health disparities, June 2024 – San Francisco Department of Public Health
- PrEP Basics Fact Sheet/Lo Esencial de PrEP – by San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Prescribing oral PrEP – San Francisco Department of Public Health
- SFCC PrEP Navigation Services Protocol (v. 12/7/18)
- PrEP Navigation Manual: Helping People Access Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis – PleasePrEPMe.org and Project Inform
- San Francisco Health Network Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Management Guidelines, June 2016
RAPID, Restart, Treatment & Retention
- *Updated* [RAPID] RAPID Provider Detailing Brochure “Rapid ART: Immediate ART initiation at HIV diagnosis and re-engagement in care (May 2024)
- *Updated* Long-Acting Injectable Antiretroviral Protocol – Ward 86 HIV Clinic (SFGH/UCSF), May 2024
- *Updated* [RAPID] RAPID HIV Care Options in SF: A guide to rapid entry into care and treatment for people newly diagnosed or re-starting in care for HIV (Updated May 2024)
- [RAPID] RAPID Standard Operating Procedures (March 2020)
- [RAPID] Development of a Citywide Rapid Antiretroviral Therapy Initiative in San Francisco AJPM. 2021 November, Pages S47-S54.
- [RAPID] Decreased Time from HIV Diagnosis to Care…ART initiation, and Virologic Suppression During Citywide ART [abstract of publication] CID. 2020 May 25.
- [RAPID] RAPID ART: High virologic suppression rates with immediate ART… [abstract of publication], AIDS. 2018 December 21.
- *Just Added* (Re)connect to HIV care/Conéctese con cuidado médico para VIH — Linkage resources for people experiencing homelessness or unstable housing (half-sheet)
Consortium, Calls to Action & Publications
- Getting to Zero San Francisco 2015 Strategic Plan
- Guidance/Policy on Affiliations & GTZ Logo Use
- Guidance/Policy on submitting a request for GTZ Letter of Support
Calls to Action
- Getting to Zero Preventable Deaths in San Francisco: A Call to Action to Address Drug Overdose Deaths, September 2021
- Getting to Zero San Francisco Housing Call to Action, April 2018
Publications
- Getting to Zero San Francisco: A Collective Impact Approach. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2019 Dec;82 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):S176-S182.
- Aiming to end San Francisco’s HIV epidemic. Lancet HIV. 2019 Feb;6(2):e77-e78.
SF Department of Public Health
General Resources
HIV & Homelessness
- *Just Added* (Re)connect to HIV care/Conéctese con cuidado médico para VIH — Linkage resources for people experiencing homelessness or unstable housing (half-sheet)
- Stop the hidden epidemic: Five steps to prevent and treat HIV, HCV, and STDs among people experiencing homelessness [2019] – San Francisco Department of Public Health
Pediatrics, Adolescents & Youth
- Recommendations: Infant feeding & prevention of pediatric HIV infection in the US (presentation slides)
- FREE healthcare and counseling for youth ages 12-25 (2022) – Community Health Programs for Youth (CHPY), San Francisco Health Networks
Ending Stigma & Discrimination
- *New* Recommended Language Guide for Communicating about Substance Use Disorders [2024] – San Francisco Department of Public Health
- *New* NIAID HIV Language Guide [2024]
- Words Matter – Terms to Use and Avoid When Talking About Addiction – NIH NIDA
- Why Language Matters: Facing HIV Stigma in Our Own Words – the well project
HIV Frontline Worker Resources
- [Tipsheet] Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) ART & PrEP: The frontline worker’s role in team-based care – SF HIV FOG/San Francisco Department of Public Health
- SF HIV FOG Brochure
- SF HIV FOG YouTube Channel: Self-Care
- Organizing the HIV Frontline Worker Community – SF HIV FOG poster presented at 2018 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
- Brochure for Providers & Front line Workers: HIV Navigation can help clients – GTZ Retention & Re-engagement Committee
- HIV & Health Insurance 101 – San Francisco HIV Frontline Organizing Group. Three online training briefs that cover the basics of traditional and expanded Medi-Cal, Medicare, private Insurance obtained from an employer or via Covered CA.
- Best Practices Cellphone Charging Stations – GTZ Retention & Re-engagement Committee