Reflections from the 2016 Harm Reduction Conference

Harm reduction is an important movement that started thirty years ago in the early days of the HIV epidemic, when people who inject...

Dec 06, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • Blog Series: Antimicrobial Resistance & Global Health Security – Collaborative...

    Last week, NACCHO outlined the landscape of disease surveillance and highlighted the importance of local public health agencies as...

    Nov 07, 2016 | Sara Chang

  • Celebrate the Inaugural One Health Day on November 3!

    One Health, while not a new topic, is increasingly gaining traction as the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental...

    Oct 31, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • CDC Webinar Recording: Prevention of Sexually-Transmitted Zika

    CDC recently held a Zika Action Plan (ZAP) Summit Follow-up teleconference on preventing sexual transmission of Zika. An audio...

    Jun 06, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • New York City Recognizes Hepatitis Testing Day and Highlights the Important Role...

    May 19 is Hepatitis Testing Day in the United States and provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of screening for...

    May 19, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • White House Launches National Plan to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

    The White House has released the National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, a crucial step in addressing...

    Dec 31, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • Issue Brief on Transgender Women and PrEP

    The National Center for Innovation in HIV Care released an issue brief entitled Transgender Women and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: What...

    Dec 04, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • Join NACCHO at the 2015 National HIV Prevention Conference

    NACCHO will present on building the infrastructure for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention at local health departments...

    Nov 13, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

  • Reflections from the 2016 Harm Reduction Conference

    Harm reduction is an important movement that started thirty years ago in the early days of the HIV epidemic, when people who inject drugs and their sex partners were dying of AIDS at alarming rates. Harm reduction is a framework for meeting people where they are at and reducing the negative consequences of drug use. […]

    Dec 06, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    Blog Series: Antimicrobial Resistance & Global Health Security – Collaborative Efforts in Disease Surveillance (Part 1)

    Last week, NACCHO outlined the landscape of disease surveillance and highlighted the importance of local public health agencies as early detectors of infectious disease threats. Revisit the first blog post in this series for a full account. In today’s post, we present the efforts of two local health departments using surveillance to protect communities from […]

    Nov 07, 2016 | Sara Chang

    Celebrate the Inaugural One Health Day on November 3!

    One Health, while not a new topic, is increasingly gaining traction as the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health continues to emerge. Following the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak – which may have spread from bush meat and contact with bats – and now Zika, which is primarily spread to people by mosquitoes, it may come […]

    Oct 31, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    CDC Webinar Recording: Prevention of Sexually-Transmitted Zika

    CDC recently held a Zika Action Plan (ZAP) Summit Follow-up teleconference on preventing sexual transmission of Zika. An audio recording of the webinar and the presentation slides are now available. The webinar: Reviews what is known and what is not known about the sexual transmission of Zika virus Describes CDC activities, materials, and resources available for clinicians, health departments,...

    Jun 06, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    New York City Recognizes Hepatitis Testing Day and Highlights the Important Role LHDs Play in Addressing Viral Hepatitis

    May 19 is Hepatitis Testing Day in the United States and provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of screening for hepatitis B and C. It is estimated that up to 5 million Americans have viral hepatitis, but less than a third of people with chronic hepatitis B and just half of those with chronic […]

    May 19, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas

    White House Launches National Plan to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

    The White House has released the National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, a crucial step in addressing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), a growing public health threat that reflects missed opportunities to find, cure, and prevent TB at the earliest stages of infection. Despite being preventable and curable, TB ranks alongside HIV as the top cause of […]

    Dec 31, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    Issue Brief on Transgender Women and PrEP

    The National Center for Innovation in HIV Care released an issue brief entitled Transgender Women and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know. It is estimated that HIV prevalence among transgender women is 49 times higher than in the general adult population, with 19.1% of transgender women worldwide currently living with HIV. The […]

    Dec 04, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

    Join NACCHO at the 2015 National HIV Prevention Conference

    NACCHO will present on building the infrastructure for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention at local health departments at the 2015 National HIV Prevention Conference (NHPC). NACCHO staff will join panelists for session C 26- “PrEP: Infrastructure and Intervention Models” at 1:30-3:00 PM EST on December 8. The session will present local and state health departments’...

    Nov 13, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas

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