8912 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Ste 210, San Diego, CA 92123
Ph: 858-292-5420; Fax: 858-278-2938
E-mail: btran.aphc@sbcglobal.net
Website: aphcenter.org

The Asian Pacific Health Center (APHC), a non-profit medical clinic in East San Diego provides low-cost and family-centered health services to community members regardless of ethnic background.

In the six years of operation, the APHC has worked on the prevention of cancer in its different forms. In the Hepatitis B Prevention Project funded by the California Endowment for two and one-half years, the center has screened nearly 2,000 people and vaccinated more than 800 persons against hepatitis B virus. The American Cancer Society has allotted funds for screening and organizing seminars for health care providers.

Currently under a 3rd year grant from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure - San Diego, the APHC promotes early breast cancer detection in the community through various outreach activities. The center also offers free mammograms and Pap smears to eligible patients through the California Cancer Detection Program.

For this year, the Community Access to Resources (CAR) grant to conduct outreach for colo-rectal cancer detection was recently approved, and a program of meetings and activities is being planned to educate the community about this cancer in Asian men and women in San Diego. On December 2, 2007, the APHC collaborated with the UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences to organize a Medicare Part D Outreach at the Vietnamese Federation of San Diego offices, to explain the program and help Medicare recipients change to insurance plans that provide better coverage for their prescription medications.