The state's auditor has faulted the California Department of Public Health for being sclerotic with its efforts to collect LGBTQ demographics and criticized the agency for having inconsistent policies.

San Francisco's public health community continues to urge people to get vaccinated for mpox after a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report concluded that the United States may see a worse outbreak of the disease this year than in 2022.

Gay and lesbian adults were more likely to take up COVID-19 vaccination early — and less likely to distrust the jabs, but nonetheless data collection has made statistics hard to come by, according to data from the CDC.

The San Francisco Community Health Center opened its new Trans Thrive program Tuesday.

Rates of some sexually transmitted infections in San Francisco declined slightly in 2022, according to year-end numbers released by the city's Department of Public Health.

Ward 86, the first dedicated HIV clinic in the United States, recently marked its 40th anniversary with a commemoration at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

The United States Food and Drug Administration released a draft of new blood donation guidance Friday that would allow gay and bisexual men in sexually monogamous relationships to donate blood — but not if they are on PrEP.

There is a new long-acting drug for people with highly resistant HIV who have, until now, had limited medication options.

Gay and bisexual men may soon be allowed to donate blood without a fixed period of sexual abstinence, the federal Food and Drug Administration announced late last month in response to a Wall Street Journal report about the policy change.

The San Francisco Department of Public Health on Friday dropped eligibility criteria for the mpox vaccine and now says that anyone at risk should be able to get the shot.

With the growth in acceptance of LGBTQ people came a curious byproduct: increased attention and marketing.

San Francisco is the first city to issue guidelines on the use of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis, or doxy-PEP, to prevent sexually transmitted infections, the Department of Public Health announced October 20.

Three months after San Francisco declared a state of emergency for the monkeypox outbreak, the first government in the country to do so, it's now winding down.

While MPX infection rates continue to level off, both in San Francisco and across the United States, health officials from the state level on down are expanding vaccine eligibility in order to continue getting shots into arms.