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The number of new HIV infections in the U.S. has stabilized in recent years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease...
Feb 28, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The below press release was published by the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) on January 28, 2019. In a modeling study...
Jan 29, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
For the first time since the National HIV/AIDS Strategy in 2010, the domestic HIV community has come together to call on the U.S....
Dec 03, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, provides the opportunity to highlight our accomplishments, remember those who have...
Nov 29, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
HIV continues to be a major public health crisis in the U.S. with almost 40,000 new cases each year, compounded by the syndemics of...
Nov 19, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
As part of ongoing efforts to highlight successful health department initiatives aimed at ending the HIV and hepatitis epidemics,...
Jun 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Today is the last day of Hepatitis Awareness Month. Our final blog post of the month focuses on hepatitis C virus (HCV) and its...
May 31, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Scientific advances have made possible the development of clinical interventions that significantly lower the transmission of the HIV...
Apr 25, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), in collaboration with Project Inform, has published the proceedings and...
Feb 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The number of new HIV infections in the U.S. has stabilized in recent years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After about five years of substantial declines, the number of new infections began to level off in 2013 at about 39,000 per year. The report, which provides the most […]
The below press release was published by the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) on January 28, 2019. In a modeling study published this week in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, researchers reported that 10 percent of all new HIV cases among men-who-have-sex-with-men in the US are caused by gonorrhea and chlamydia infections, the two most common reportable infections […]
For the first time since the National HIV/AIDS Strategy in 2010, the domestic HIV community has come together to call on the U.S. government to declare an official goal of ending the domestic HIV epidemic by 2025 and urging it to enact legislative and regulatory policies and sufficient appropriations to achieve this goal. The Act […]
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, provides the opportunity to highlight our accomplishments, remember those who have lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and refocus our efforts on what still needs to be done to end the epidemic. Local health departments are in the forefront of these efforts, working on initiatives to […]
HIV continues to be a major public health crisis in the U.S. with almost 40,000 new cases each year, compounded by the syndemics of opioid use, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and tuberculosis (TB). As such, the Act Now End AIDS coalition (a national cohort of HIV service organizations, providers, and people living with […]
As part of ongoing efforts to highlight successful health department initiatives aimed at ending the HIV and hepatitis epidemics, NASTAD has released an installment of Success Stories that feature health department hepatitis programs. These stories highlight initiatives in Louisiana, Maryland, and Mississippi, that aim to increase testing and linkage to care for hepatitis B and C […]
Today is the last day of Hepatitis Awareness Month. Our final blog post of the month focuses on hepatitis C virus (HCV) and its disproportionate impact on people who inject drugs (PWID). What is Hepatitis C? Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by HCV. For some people, HCV is a short-term, acute illness. Approximately […]
Scientific advances have made possible the development of clinical interventions that significantly lower the transmission of the HIV virus. These interventions, better known as biomedical HIV prevention, consist of powerful methods that reduce HIV transmission, moving us along a path to ending the HIV epidemic. There are three primary biomedical HIV prevention tools so far: […]
The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), in collaboration with Project Inform, has published the proceedings and recommendations from a multi-sector stakeholder consultation held May 10-11, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois. The consultation was formed to discuss ethical considerations involved with public health action using HIV sequence data reported to health departments. The consultation...
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