The San Francisco Hepatitis B Collaborative (SFHBC) is a joint initiative between the University of California at San Francisco Asian Health Caucus, a student organization, and the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Its mission is to create sustainable partnerships with Bay Area community organizations to increase education, screening, and prevention against Hepatitis B within local Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Founded in 2004, SFHBC pursues its mission by:

1. Offering an annual 10-week long instructional curriculum that includes seminars and procedural training;
2. Operating a student-run mobile Hepatitis B outreach clinic;
3. Emphasizing capacity-building activities that enhance direct services provided by community agencies and students;
4. Ensuring partner relationships are rooted in trust, respect, genuineness and commitment;
5. Engaging health professional students and faculty in community advocacy and service-learning.

While SFHBC is primarily an educational outreach and advocacy initiative, it has a research focus to better understand the knowledge, practice and barriers to care pertaining to Hepatitis B among outreach participants. In addition, treatment and care management for chronic carriers, primary care physician educational outreach, and broader vaccination programs represent important additional programmatic areas.

UCSF Students Educate Community on Hepatitis B
Synapse (The UCSF Student Newspaper), October 21, 2005, v50 n6

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