San Francisco City Clinic

San Francisco City Clinic
SF City Clinic at night.
Geography
Location	San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Organization
Care system	STI testing, treatment, counseling, research, prevention, education, outreach
History
Founded	1933
Links
Website	SFCityClinic.org
Lists	Hospitals in California

Coordinates: 37°46′33.55″N 122°24′25.4″W / 37.7759861°N 122.407056°W / 37.7759861; -122.407056

San Francisco City Clinic also known as SF City Clinic or usually as City Clinic is a municipal public sexual health clinic specializing in sexually transmitted infections testing and sexually transmitted disease treatment, in addition to advocacy work and medical research. The center is located in the South of Market or "SoMa" district on the north-east side of San Francisco, California along San Francisco Bay.

San Francisco City Clinic is run by the City and County of San Francisco's Department of Public Health. The health center opened and began serving the sexually active members of San Francisco's communities in 1933. Its precursor was the Municipal Clinic of San Francisco opened in 1911 to treat prostitutes suffering from the "Red Plague". The clinic is located on 7th Street, at number 356, its current location where it has operated continuously since the health center's inception. The center has been researching the human immunodeficiency virus since the 1970s. City Clinic has done extensive HIV research and how it affects the gay community in San Francisco including tracking the epidemic by zip codes and neighborhoods and mapping the severity of infections. In the 2000s craigslist.org added a link the clinic's website as a disclaimer on the page preceding the men seeking men section of the page. Since its opening the most common diseases treated were Gonorrhea, Syphilis, and Chlamydia and they continue to be so. Most of the clientele are teenages, people in their 20s, and gays and lesbians.