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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

  • NASTAD Call to Action: Urgent Response to Nation’s Hepatitis C Epidemic

    In response to the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) release of A National Strategy for the...

    Aug 01, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Call for Abstracts: 2017 National Transgender Health Summit

    UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health is hosting the 2017 National Transgender Health Summit (NTHS) in Oakland,...

    Jul 21, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Issue Brief: Models for Improving Linkage to Care for PLWH Released from Jail or...

    The National Center for Innovation in HIV Care recently published an issue brief/resource guide for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program...

    Jun 20, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • STD Awareness Month Blog Series: Syphilis among Women and Newborn Babies

    April is STD Awareness Month, and this year’s theme is Syphilis Strikes Back. This week’s post highlights the impact of syphilis on...

    Apr 19, 2017 | Nicholas Parr

  • NACCHO Releases Podcast Interview with Director of ONDCP

    The NACCHO Podcast Series recently posted an interview with the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Michael...

    Jul 20, 2015 | Stella Bartholet

    • HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis, Maternal, Child, & Adolescent Health

    New National Coalition Launches Campaign for Sexual Health Rights of Youth in State Custody

    This press release was originally posted on the Sexual Health Youth Advocacy Coalition website. Advocates call widespread lack of sexual health care, despite high rates of STIs and sexual abuse, an ethical and public health failure New York, NY (October 15, 2018) — In October 2017, leading organizations working on juvenile justice, adolescent sexual health policy, […]

    Oct 15, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    Health Equity & Social Justice, Maternal, Child, & Adolescent Health, Policy

    The Effect of Parental Incarceration on Children’s Health: Lessons Learned from a Health Impact Assessment

    By: Judi Jennings, Special Project Director, Louisville, KY The Special Project recently completed a health impact assessment (HIA) demonstrating how public health leaders, artists and criminal justice reformers can work together to assess how parental incarceration harms children’s health. The HIA and health equity framework proved to be important tools for proposed policy change; art and...

    Sep 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

    HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis

    Fact Sheet: The Criminalization of Viral Hepatitis in the U.S.

    The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), the Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC), and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) have released “Punishment is Not a Public Health Strategy: The Criminalization of Viral Hepatitis in the United States” – a fact sheet on viral hepatitis criminalization laws throughout the country. More than a dozen U.S. […]

    Aug 23, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    Report: Science over Stigma: The Public Health Case Against HCV Treatment Sobriety Restrictions

    In 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

    NASTAD Call to Action: Urgent Response to Nation’s Hepatitis C Epidemic

    In response to the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) release of A National Strategy for the Elimination of Hepatitis B and C: Phase Two Report, the National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has issued a Call to Action and accompanying Blog Post for an urgent response to the […]

    Aug 01, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    Call for Abstracts: 2017 National Transgender Health Summit

    UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health is hosting the 2017 National Transgender Health Summit (NTHS) in Oakland, California, from November 10-12, 2017. NTHS is the premiere national conference in transgender health. This landmark program will present cutting-edge research, evidence-based educational sessions, training opportunities across many disciplines. NTHS is now accepting...

    Jul 21, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    Issue Brief: Models for Improving Linkage to Care for PLWH Released from Jail or Prison

    The National Center for Innovation in HIV Care recently published an issue brief/resource guide for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) funded organizations to provide care to people living with HIV (PLWH) who are leaving prisons and jails and reentering society after incarceration. It describes proven models for linkage to care programs that can help PLWH access […]

    Jun 20, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    STD Awareness Month Blog Series: Syphilis among Women and Newborn Babies

    April is STD Awareness Month, and this year’s theme is Syphilis Strikes Back. This week’s post highlights the impact of syphilis on women and newborns, and strategies of local health departments to address syphilis among these populations. As noted in the previous blog post, syphilis is a bacterial infection that is primarily spread through sexual contact, […]

    Apr 19, 2017 | Nicholas Parr

    NACCHO Releases Podcast Interview with Director of ONDCP

    The NACCHO Podcast Series recently posted an interview with the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Michael Botticelli on the opioid epidemic and how local health departments can help prevent opioid and prescription drug overdose in their communities. According to Botticelli, the epidemic is partly a result of the over prescription […]

    Jul 20, 2015 | Stella Bartholet

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