Syringe Access Services
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.
Since 1993
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.
Our Vital Volunteers
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.
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
- Access to PrEP
- 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)
- Support and referrals
6th Street Center
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.