Prioritizing the Health of MSM: Extragenital STD Screening Call-to-Action

The National Coalition of STD Directors’ Gay Men’s Health Equity Work Group developed a Call-to-Action and supplemental...

Oct 04, 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

  • Webinar Series: Culturally Responsive Health Care for LGBTQ Communities

    Culturally responsive health care – patient-centered care that considers social and cultural factors – is an important element in...

    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

  • LHD Spotlight: Using Smartphones in STD Interviews

    Smartphone applications are increasingly being used to facilitate casual sexual relationships, increasing the risk of sexually...

    Sep 20, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • MMWR: Health-Related Behaviors and Academic Achievement Among High School Students —...

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new data that further solidifies the connection between student...

    Sep 19, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • 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

  • School-Based Adolescent HIV/STD Prevention Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 2

    This newsletter was developed as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School...

    Sep 06, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Sourcebook: HIV Criminalization in the United States

    The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), a national leader on HIV legal issues and policy development, just announced the release of...

    Aug 31, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Prioritizing the Health of MSM: Extragenital STD Screening Call-to-Action

    The National Coalition of STD Directors’ Gay Men’s Health Equity Work Group developed a Call-to-Action and supplemental infographics encouraging improved STD screening of men who have sex with men (MSM), specifically of the throat and rectum. Per the executive summary: Though many sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain undiagnosed and unreported, 2016 was the third consecutive...

    Oct 04, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    City of Chicago and Community Leaders Join U=U Campaign as Part of New Effort to Reduce HIV Transmissions to Zero

    The 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

    Webinar Series: Culturally Responsive Health Care for LGBTQ Communities

    Culturally responsive health care – patient-centered care that considers social and cultural factors – is an important element in preventing and treating HIV, reducing health disparities within LGBTQ communities, and contributing to collective efforts to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To help health care staff incorporate cultural responsiveness when working with LGBTQ communities, the Primary Care...

    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 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

    LHD Spotlight: Using Smartphones in STD Interviews

    Smartphone applications are increasingly being used to facilitate casual sexual relationships, increasing the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Recognizing this, the Monroe County (NY) Health Department (MCHD) conducted a study to explore how traditional contact elicitation methods can be enhanced with smartphone technology during field interviews in STD investigations. Through this...

    Sep 20, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    MMWR: Health-Related Behaviors and Academic Achievement Among High School Students — United States, 2015

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new data that further solidifies the connection between student health and academic performance. As millions of students across the nation head back to school, it is important to understand that the academic success of America’s youth is strongly linked with their health. The data published […]

    Sep 19, 2017 | 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

    School-Based Adolescent HIV/STD Prevention Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 2

    This newsletter was developed as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health’s (DASH) initiative, Expanding Partnerships and Disseminating HIV Prevention Materials to Reduce HIV and other STDs among Adolescents through National Non-Governmental Organizations (PS16-1603). The initiative was created to increase education of key stakeholders...

    Sep 06, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    Sourcebook: HIV Criminalization in the United States

    The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), a national leader on HIV legal issues and policy development, just announced the release of a new publication that catalogs and analyzes state and federal HIV criminal laws in the United States. HIV Criminalization in the United States: A Sourcebook on State and Federal HIV Criminal Law and […]

    Aug 31, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

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