San Diego
B-Safe, a low-cost screening and vaccination program for hepatitis B, is available to San Diego State University students through May.
Specifically targeted are the school’s gay and bisexual male students, although high-risk groups also include certain health care workers, Southeast Asian immigrants and intravenous drug users.
The screening, which costs $30, is a pilot project of the federal Centers for Disease Control in association with I.O.X. Assessment Associates and Student Health Services.
Long-term effects of chronic hepatitis B can be liver dysfunction, liver cancer and death.
Appointments for screenings can be made by calling the university’s Student Health Services.
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