The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Capacity Building Branch has launched content on pre-exposure prophylaxis...
Dec 13, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Black AIDS Institute, with support from Gilead Sciences, has launched an Ambassador Program for Black women to build engagement...
Dec 06, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of Population Health released the 2017 Behavioral Risk...
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
The Centers Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an online 2018 National Viral Hepatitis Progress Report to share trends in...
Nov 07, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) kicks off on Monday, November 12! As you prepare for the week, we encourage you to check out...
Nov 06, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
By Marie Smith and Dylan Williams, NACCHO Interns Vector-borne diseases (e.g., Zika virus, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease) are a...
Oct 03, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Providers wrote approximately 4.45 billion opioid prescriptions in 2016—with wide variation across states. In addition, an almost 1.8...
Sep 24, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
STEPS to Care, a new online toolkit to support engagement in HIV care, is now available for download on the Effective Interventions...
Aug 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Capacity Building Branch has launched content on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on the Effective Interventions website. These webpages provide information and resources to support PrEP as an HIV prevention strategy for health departments, community-based organizations, and healthcare organizations in the United States. View the new content.
The Black AIDS Institute, with support from Gilead Sciences, has launched an Ambassador Program for Black women to build engagement and movement around HIV and sexual health for Black women. This ambassador program will create a cohort of 20 Black cis and trans women, who are living with HIV and HIV-negative, who will receive training […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of Population Health released the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data and prevalence tables. The BRFSS continues to be the largest ongoing telephone-based surveillance system in the world, with more than 450,000 interviews conducted in 2017 across all 50 states, the District of Columbia,...
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 […]
The Centers Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an online 2018 National Viral Hepatitis Progress Report to share trends in viral hepatitis vaccination efforts, and disease incidence and mortality. This is the annual update to the 2017 inaugural report, Progress Toward Viral Hepatitis Elimination in the United States. In the new report, CDC highlights the […]
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) kicks off on Monday, November 12! As you prepare for the week, we encourage you to check out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Be Antibiotics Aware partner toolkit, which contains key messages, social media content, graphics, and more. Additionally, below are specific CDC USAAW activities, along with data and resources […]
By Marie Smith and Dylan Williams, NACCHO Interns Vector-borne diseases (e.g., Zika virus, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease) are a concern to many Americans, spreading among the population through mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and other vectors. The mosquitoes and ticks that spread disease are highly mobile creatures that are able to reproduce rapidly. As vector-borne […]
Providers wrote approximately 4.45 billion opioid prescriptions in 2016—with wide variation across states. In addition, an almost 1.8 million Americans, aged 12 or older, either abused or were dependent on prescription opioids in 2016. Improving the way opioids are prescribed through clinical practice guidelines, can ensure patients have access to safer, more effective pain treatment […]
STEPS to Care, a new online toolkit to support engagement in HIV care, is now available for download on the Effective Interventions website. This multi-media package is designed to support service providers and agency personnel in the uptake and implementation of three evidence-informed linkage, retention and reengagement strategies: Patient Navigation, Care Team Coordination, and HIV...
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