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World AIDS Day 2017: Increasing Impact through Transparency, Accountability, and...
Combatting HIV/AIDS: Nearly Four Decades of Progress For the past 29 years, we’ve set aside today, World AIDS Day, to raise awareness...
Nov 30, 2017 | Mardrequs Harris
Report: Eliminating Opioid Overdoses, Deaths, and Substance Use Disorders Exceeds...
Altarum recently released a report assessing the potential societal benefit of eliminating opioid overdoses, death, and substance use...
Nov 21, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
National HIV Curriculum: New Module on Co-Occurring Conditions
The AIDS Education & Training Center Program has released “Module 4: Co-Occurring Conditions” of the National HIV...
Nov 15, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Call for Papers: Monitoring Disparities in Prevention and Treatment of HIV, Viral...
The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for HIV/AIDS,...
Oct 05, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
City of Chicago and Community Leaders Join U=U Campaign as Part of New Effort to...
The below is a September 28 press release from the Chicago Department of Public Health. Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) campaign...
Sep 29, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
HHS Blog: When it Comes to Curing Hepatitis C, Your Health Care Provider May Not...
This blog, written by Richard Wolitski, Ph.D., Director, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, U.S. Department of Health...
Sep 28, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Commentary: CDC’s 2016 STD Surveillance Report
Increasing STD rates highlight the need to work together, commit to doing what we know works, and develop new tools and approaches to...
Sep 26, 2017 | Gretchen Weiss
Report: Science over Stigma: The Public Health Case Against HCV Treatment Sobriety...
In response to the introduction of effective, short-course, curative hepatitis C (HCV) treatments, shifting HCV trends nationwide, and...
Sep 14, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
HHS: Guidance for Non-HIV Specialized Providers Caring for Persons with HIV in...
The Department of Health and Human Services HIV guideline panels released Guidance for Non-HIV Specialized Providers Caring for...
Sep 06, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
World AIDS Day 2017: Increasing Impact through Transparency, Accountability, and PartnershipsCombatting HIV/AIDS: Nearly Four Decades of Progress For the past 29 years, we’ve set aside today, World AIDS Day, to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection, and to mourn as well as celebrate the lives of those who have died from this disease. While we observe 29 years […] Nov 30, 2017 | Mardrequs Harris |
Report: Eliminating Opioid Overdoses, Deaths, and Substance Use Disorders Exceeds $95 Billion per YearAltarum recently released a report assessing the potential societal benefit of eliminating opioid overdoses, death, and substance use disorders, and found that the benefit would have exceeded $95 billion dollars in 2016. Part of that benefit comes from a $9.2 billion reduction in indirect healthcare costs, which includes the costs associated with the increased risk and treatment […] Nov 21, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
National HIV Curriculum: New Module on Co-Occurring ConditionsThe AIDS Education & Training Center Program has released “Module 4: Co-Occurring Conditions” of the National HIV Curriculum. AETC, in partnership with the University of Washington, produced the National HIV Curriculum with support from the Health Resources and Service Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau The module provides evidence-based recommendations for the evaluation and... Nov 15, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Call for Papers: Monitoring Disparities in Prevention and Treatment of HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TBThe American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), plan to publish a theme issue on applying methods, metrics, and indicators for measuring disparities in health outcomes and risk behaviors for the prevention and treatment of HIV, […] Oct 05, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
City of Chicago and Community Leaders Join U=U Campaign as Part of New Effort to Reduce HIV Transmissions to ZeroThe below is a September 28 press release from the Chicago Department of Public Health. Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) campaign increases awareness of scientific evidence that effective HIV treatment successfully stops the spread of HIV The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced today that both the City of Chicago and Chicago’s primary HIV advisory […] Sep 29, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
HHS Blog: When it Comes to Curing Hepatitis C, Your Health Care Provider May Not Need to Be A SpecialistThis blog, written by Richard Wolitski, Ph.D., Director, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was originally published on the Department of Health and Human Services’ Viral Hepatitis Blog. Below is a brief snippet. Summary: Study published in Annals of Internal Medicine found no differences in sustained virologic response among... Sep 28, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Commentary: CDC’s 2016 STD Surveillance ReportIncreasing STD rates highlight the need to work together, commit to doing what we know works, and develop new tools and approaches to address persistent challenges and emerging threats. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Surveillance Report, 2016. For a third year in a row, rates […] Sep 26, 2017 | Gretchen Weiss |
Report: Science over Stigma: The Public Health Case Against HCV Treatment Sobriety RestrictionsIn response to the introduction of effective, short-course, curative hepatitis C (HCV) treatments, shifting HCV trends nationwide, and calls for universal access to treatment, NASTAD has recently released Science over Stigma: The Public Health Case Against HCV Treatment Sobriety Restrictions,which explores the impact of private and public insurance sobriety requirements that are barriers to HCV... Sep 14, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
HHS: Guidance for Non-HIV Specialized Providers Caring for Persons with HIV in Disaster AreasThe Department of Health and Human Services HIV guideline panels released Guidance for Non-HIV Specialized Providers Caring for Persons with HIV in Disaster Areas. The document covers antiretroviral therapy for patients receiving treatment before displacement, caring for pregnant women, treatment and prevention of opportunistic infections and vaccinations and is available from AIDSInfo by... Sep 06, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
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