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Success Stories: Unite to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics
As part of this year’s Unite to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics Chair’s Challenge, the National Alliance of State and...
Nov 03, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Positive Women’s Network: New Multimedia Series Connects Women with HIV
The Positive Women’s Network recently announced the launch of #PNWCares, an interactive multimedia series connecting women with...
Oct 16, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
School-Based Adolescent HIV/STD Prevention Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 3
This newsletter was developed as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School...
Oct 12, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Join Now! New HHS Hepatitis C Medicaid Affinity Group
The Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP), in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
Oct 11, 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
Take Action: National Health IT Week 2017
National Health IT Week (NHIT Week), which will take place October 2-6, 2017, is a nationwide awareness week that highlights the value...
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
Q & A: Defending Retail Food Supplies from Food Terrorism
By: Jim Armstrong, MS, RS, Program Manager, Environmental Public Health Services, Cuyahoga County Board of Health In 2016, the U.S....
Sep 25, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Defending Retail Food Supplies from Food Terrorism in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
By: Jim Armstrong, MS, RS, Program Manager, Environmental Public Health Services, Cuyahoga County Board of Health Importance of Food...
Sep 22, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Success Stories: Unite to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis EpidemicsAs part of this year’s Unite to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics Chair’s Challenge, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) released the second installment in a series of success stories collected from around the nation. This installment features programs from Michigan, North Carolina, and Philadelphia and highlights their health […] Nov 03, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Positive Women’s Network: New Multimedia Series Connects Women with HIVThe Positive Women’s Network recently announced the launch of #PNWCares, an interactive multimedia series connecting women with HIV and addressing their biggest challenges. The initiative, which will feature a series of short videos in which real women living with HIV address important topics, followed by virtual coffee table chats offering real-time conversation and Q&A, will launch... Oct 16, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
School-Based Adolescent HIV/STD Prevention Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 3This 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... Oct 12, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Join Now! New HHS Hepatitis C Medicaid Affinity GroupThe Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP), in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH), has launched a new joint initiative: the Hepatitis C Medicaid Affinity Group. […] Oct 11, 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 |
Take Action: National Health IT Week 2017National Health IT Week (NHIT Week), which will take place October 2-6, 2017, is a nationwide awareness week that highlights the value of healthcare IT and offers healthcare stakeholders an opportunity to unite under one banner, one message: the benefits health information technology can bring to U.S. healthcare. This year, NHIT Week’s points of engagement will focus on: Supporting... 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 |
Q & A: Defending Retail Food Supplies from Food TerrorismBy: Jim Armstrong, MS, RS, Program Manager, Environmental Public Health Services, Cuyahoga County Board of Health In 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the “Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) Final Rule for Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration.” This final rule is “aimed at preventing intentional adulteration from acts intended... Sep 25, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Defending Retail Food Supplies from Food Terrorism in Cuyahoga County, OhioBy: Jim Armstrong, MS, RS, Program Manager, Environmental Public Health Services, Cuyahoga County Board of Health Importance of Food Defense In 2004, Tommy Thompson, former director of the Department of Health and Human Services, famously said, “I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply, because it is […] Sep 22, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
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