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PrEP is a medication that can be used to help prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Research has shown that when taken...
Mar 26, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The National Network of STD Clinical Prevention Training Centers’ (NNPTC’s) National Quality Improvement Center (NQIC) is...
Feb 19, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Indian Health Service (IHS) National STD program and the IHS Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention have released the...
Feb 11, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The below press release was published by the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) on January 28, 2019. In a modeling study...
Jan 29, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), with support...
Jan 22, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), welcome...
Dec 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released the Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2017 report, which...
Sep 25, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
As part of the official conference press briefing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National STD...
Aug 28, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
This blog post was written by Chrissie Juliano, Director, Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), and originally posted on the BCHC Front...
Apr 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
PrEP is a medication that can be used to help prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Research has shown that when taken consistently, daily PrEP can reduce the risk of HIV infection by up to 90%. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that PrEP be offered to individuals who are at […]
The National Network of STD Clinical Prevention Training Centers’ (NNPTC’s) National Quality Improvement Center (NQIC) is recruiting state and city STD programs to serve as Clinical Support Coordinators for a new multi-state clinical quality improvement (QI) project for primary care practices: the Improving Chlamydia Screening among Adolescents in Primary Care eLearning Collaborative...
The Indian Health Service (IHS) National STD program and the IHS Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention have released the Indian Health Surveillance Report — Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2015. The report presents statistics and trends for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) in the United States and represents a unique […]
The below press release was published by the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) on January 28, 2019. In a modeling study published this week in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, researchers reported that 10 percent of all new HIV cases among men-who-have-sex-with-men in the US are caused by gonorrhea and chlamydia infections, the two most common reportable infections […]
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recently released a set of fact sheets designed to help health departments demonstrate the local impact of STD program funding on disease burden and associated medical costs. […]
NACCHO, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), welcome a new report from the National Academy of Public Administration that makes the case for taking urgent, concrete action to address skyrocketing STDs in the United States. Steps outlined in the report include designating a national […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released the Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2017 report, which shows that rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis increased for the fourth consecutive year, with gonorrhea and syphilis rates being the highest since the early 1990s. Further, new data show that congenital syphilis cases have more than […]
As part of the official conference press briefing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National STD Prevention Conference, CDC presented preliminary data showing five-year trends in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) that included preliminary data for 2017. The analysis found that the nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis reported to...
This blog post was written by Chrissie Juliano, Director, Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), and originally posted on the BCHC Front Lines blog. STD Awareness Month is an opportunity to focus on raising awareness of a problem that affects millions of Americans every year. STDs in the United States are at record highs, despite years of dropping rates, […]
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