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Now Available: Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider’s Guide
The National Coalition of Sexual Health (NCSH) recently released Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider’s Guide to help primary...
Oct 20, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
CDC: 2015 STD Surveillance Report
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of STD Prevention just released its 2015 STD...
Oct 19, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Funding Opportunity: Health Is Power Campaign – Promoting Sexual Health among...
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), with support from the CDC Division of STD Prevention, is...
Oct 12, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
New NACCHO Request for Proposals: Seeking Consultant for Upcoming Project
With funding from CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, NACCHO will be offering funding and technical assistance (TA) to up to five local...
Oct 11, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Celebrate National DIS Recognition Day!
The 5th Annual National DIS Recognition Day is October 7, 2016. Created by the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and...
Oct 05, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
CDC Funding Opportunity: Understanding the Epidemiology of Syphilis in the U.S.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) released a research...
Sep 28, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
CDC: Gonorrhea Treatment May Be Losing Effectiveness
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that gonorrhea treatment may be losing effectiveness. For...
Sep 27, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
SIECUS State Profiles: A Portrait of Sexuality Education in the States
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) just released the latest edition of the SIECUS State...
Sep 22, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Issue Brief: Connections: From Health Informatics to Improved HIV Outcomes
NASTAD (National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors) released a new Health Systems Integration resource, Connections:...
Sep 22, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
Now Available: Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider’s GuideThe National Coalition of Sexual Health (NCSH) recently released Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider’s Guide to help primary care providers better integrate sexual health conversations and recommended preventive sexual health services into routine patient visits. Developed by the Health Care Action Group, the guide features tables and charts to help providers easily find key information,... Oct 20, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
CDC: 2015 STD Surveillance ReportThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of STD Prevention just released its 2015 STD Surveillance Report, which presents statistics and trends for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States through 2015. The report found that reported STDs are at an unprecedented high in the U.S; 2015 was the second year in a row in […] Oct 19, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
Funding Opportunity: Health Is Power Campaign – Promoting Sexual Health among Heterosexual African American MenThe National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), with support from the CDC Division of STD Prevention, is pleased to announce this new funding opportunity to participate in a demonstration site project to implement and evaluate Health Is Power. Health Is Power is designed to promote positive sexual health behaviors among young heterosexual […] Oct 12, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
New NACCHO Request for Proposals: Seeking Consultant for Upcoming ProjectWith funding from CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, NACCHO will be offering funding and technical assistance (TA) to up to five local health departments (LHDs) for a multi-site evaluation of the use of the Rapid Syphilis Test (RST) in nonclinical settings, with the goal of obtaining systematic information on RST performance, implementation, outcomes, and costs. […] Oct 11, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
Celebrate National DIS Recognition Day!The 5th Annual National DIS Recognition Day is October 7, 2016. Created by the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and celebrated annually on the first Friday of October, National DIS Recognition Day aims to praise, congratulate, and honor disease intervention specialists (DIS) – the “warriors” of the sexually-transmitted disease (STD) world. To reward this workforce’s... Oct 05, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
CDC Funding Opportunity: Understanding the Epidemiology of Syphilis in the U.S.Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) released a research funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for a cooperative agreement to better understand the epidemiologic and microbiologic aspects of syphilis. Although innovative prevention interventions have been explored, the ongoing increase of syphilis, especially among men who... Sep 28, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
CDC: Gonorrhea Treatment May Be Losing EffectivenessLast week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that gonorrhea treatment may be losing effectiveness. For the first time in the United States, health officials have identified a cluster of gonorrhea infections that shows both decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone and very high-level resistance to azithromycin. Ceftriaxone and azithromycin are the two drugs that... Sep 27, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
SIECUS State Profiles: A Portrait of Sexuality Education in the StatesThe Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) just released the latest edition of the SIECUS State Profiles: A Portrait of Sexuality Education in the States. This fiscal year (FY) 2015 edition includes individual profiles for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the outer United States […] Sep 22, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
Issue Brief: Connections: From Health Informatics to Improved HIV OutcomesNASTAD (National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors) released a new Health Systems Integration resource, Connections: From Health Informatics to Improved HIV Outcomes. As part of NASTAD’s cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the issue brief provides governmental public health programs with a foundation for how to leverage health […] Sep 22, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
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