CDC Releases Every Dose Every Day toolkit

The CDC has published a new online toolkit offering health care providers evidence-based strategies for improving medication adherence...

Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • NACCHO Interviews a Local Health Department Disease Intervention Specialist to...

    October 2, 2015 is National Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) Recognition Day, a day that is celebrated annually on the first...

    Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • CDC Releases the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention Annual Report

    CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) released their 2014 Annual Report highlighting the division’s programmatic...

    Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • Lambda Legal Launches “Know Your Rights” Hub for People Living with HIV

    Lambda Legal has launched  “Know Your Rights: HIV” which provides information for people living with HIV people on an array of issues...

    Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • Inter-jurisdictional Public Health Department HIV and STD Data Sharing Fact Sheet

    The Office of AIDS at the California Department of Public Health developed a fact sheet on inter-jurisdictional HIV and STD data...

    Oct 01, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • Tackling the HIV Crisis: Implementing New Ways to Find and Connect Patients to the...

    By Julia Hidalgo, ScD, MSW, MPH, National Program Office Director, Research Professor, George Washington University, Merck Foundation...

    Sep 18, 2015 | Guest Author

  • CDC Expert Commentary on HIV/HCV Outbreak in Indiana

    The recent outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C virus in a small community in rural Indiana serves as a cautionary tale to other regions of...

    Sep 17, 2015 | Firdaus Arastu

  • Study on Partner Services in STD Prevention Programs

    A 2015 study published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases conducted a review of current literature on partner services...

    Sep 15, 2015 | Firdaus Arastu

  • NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and...

    NACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources,...

    Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan

  • CDC Releases Every Dose Every Day toolkit

    The CDC has published a new online toolkit offering health care providers evidence-based strategies for improving medication adherence among patients living with HIV. The Every Dose, Every Day toolkit features four HIV medication adherence e-learning modules, related resources and a mobile application. The topics covered include the benefits of antiretroviral therapy adherence, components of...

    Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    NACCHO Interviews a Local Health Department Disease Intervention Specialist to Celebrate DIS Recognition Day

    October 2, 2015 is National Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) Recognition Day, a day that is celebrated annually on the first Friday in October to recognize this critical part of the public health workforce. The National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) led the development of DIS Recognition Day four years ago to celebrate and honor the often […]

    Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    CDC Releases the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention Annual Report

    CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) released their 2014 Annual Report highlighting the division’s programmatic activities in 2014. This report discusses progress made towards DHAP’s mission of closing the gaps in HIV prevention, diagnosis, care, and awareness in the United States and celebrated successes such as supporting the delivery of pre-exposure prophylaxis...

    Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    Lambda Legal Launches “Know Your Rights” Hub for People Living with HIV

    Lambda Legal has launched  “Know Your Rights: HIV” which provides information for people living with HIV people on an array of issues including housing; HIV testing; PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis); access to health care; HIV discrimination in the workplace; HIV discrimination outside of work; privacy and confidentiality; disclosing your HIV status; HIV criminalization; adoption, foster care,...

    Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    Inter-jurisdictional Public Health Department HIV and STD Data Sharing Fact Sheet

    The Office of AIDS at the California Department of Public Health developed a fact sheet on inter-jurisdictional HIV and STD data sharing among public health departments. This fact sheet outlines state regulations around the sharing of HIV and STD data and answers frequently asked questions. View the fact sheet here.

    Oct 01, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    Tackling the HIV Crisis: Implementing New Ways to Find and Connect Patients to the Health Care System

    By Julia Hidalgo, ScD, MSW, MPH, National Program Office Director, Research Professor, George Washington University, Merck Foundation HIV Care Collaborative State and local health departments (LHDs) face daunting challenges to improving the quality of care for low income, uninsured populations living with communicable and chronic diseases. Despite these challenges, many LHDs are piloting...

    Sep 18, 2015 | Guest Author

    CDC Expert Commentary on HIV/HCV Outbreak in Indiana

    The recent outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C virus in a small community in rural Indiana serves as a cautionary tale to other regions of the United States. Jonathan Mermin, Director of CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, discusses in this video what doctors and public health professionals can do to prevent […]

    Sep 17, 2015 | Firdaus Arastu

    Study on Partner Services in STD Prevention Programs

    A 2015 study published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases conducted a review of current literature on partner services programs with the goal of informing STD prevention programs. Partner service programs have been a mainstay of public health STD prevention for decades. The study found that value is maximized by balancing a portfolio of patient and […]

    Sep 15, 2015 | Firdaus Arastu

    NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and Promising Practices

    NACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources, administrative practices, or tools that demonstrate exemplary and replicable qualities in response to a local public health need. A model practice meets the following criteria: local health department role, collaboration, innovation, responsiveness, and evaluation of both the...

    Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan

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