Free & Confidential Hepatitis B Screenings

Health care providers and community organizations are working together to raise awareness and also to provide free or low-cost testing and vaccination. APIs are 100 times more likely to have chronic hepatitis b than Caucasians and have the highest rate of liver cancer for any racial/ethnic group.

Hepatitis b can cause serious illness that may last for months, and can become a chronic illness with increased risk of liver damage and liver cancer. Hepatitis b can potentially lead to liver failure and death, but is preventable with a simple vaccine series.

It is estimated that the API residents make up 34% of the city’s population and bear a disproportionate instance of liver cancer and undetected HBV infection. Eighty percent of liver cancer is caused by hepatitis b and 1 out of 10 API’s in San Francisco has chronic hepatitis b.

FREE screenings will be provided on site at the Asian Heritage Street Celebration, so make sure you, your friends & family know where you stand with Hep B. For more information go to SF Hep B Free.

Event: Presented by California Pacific Medical Center and San Francisco Hep B Free Campaign

Description: 1 in 10 people in the API community are diagnosed with Hepatitis B, which causes 80% of all liver cancer. Get tested for free at the Asian Heritage Street Celebration.

Details: Free, May 17, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Japantown Peace Plaza/Miyako Mall at Buchanan and Post Street, San Francisco. RSVP: (415) 600-6225

“Batter up!” Your chance to support S.F. Hep B Free Campaign

You can help support the SF Hep B Free campaign by purchasing San Francisco Giants tickets for Saturday, May 17th against the Chicago White Sox. For each ticket purchased $9 will be donated to the SF Hep B Free campaign.

Purchase tickets by calling 415.972.2298, vist sfgiants.com/specialevents or at the Asian Heritage Street Celebration.

San Francisco Hep B Free is a city-wide campaign to turn San Francisco into the first hepatitis b free city in the nation. This unprecedented 2-year-long campaign will screen, vaccinate and treat all San Francisco Asian and Pacific Islander (API) residents of hepatitis b (HBV) by providing convenient, free or low-cost testing opportunities at partnering health facilities and events.