The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Adriane Casalotti, MPH, MSW, Chief of Government and Public Affairs at NACCHO, is one of two co-chairs of a newly developed National...
Feb 18, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
As we have done for the last several years, NACCHO provided several full scholarships for local health department disease intervention...
Jan 21, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Researchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) were awarded a grant by National Institute of Health’s National Institute of...
Nov 13, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
On Wednesday, November 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United...
Today, NACCHO released a commentary in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) new report,...
On October 8, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Surveillance...
Oct 08, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health has announced awards to establish four...
May 20, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO is launching a community of practice (CoP) that focuses on STI express services, also known as fast-tracking, which refer to...
May 01, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
As has been repeated throughout STD Awareness Month, the rates of the three reportable STDs (syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia) are...
Apr 30, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Adriane Casalotti, MPH, MSW, Chief of Government and Public Affairs at NACCHO, is one of two co-chairs of a newly developed National STI Coalition with the goal of improving the health of those living with and disproportionately impacted by sexually transmitted infections (STI). The coalition was formed with the leadership of NACCHO, the National Coalition of STD Directors and 15 other national...
As we have done for the last several years, NACCHO provided several full scholarships for local health department disease intervention specialists (DIS) to attend the STD Engage conference and build expertise in STD prevention and control within a broader sexual health approach. Held November 19-22, 2019, STD Engage 2019: Innovate. Impact. Empower brought together DIS, clinic and program staff,...
Researchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) were awarded a grant by National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to explore the efficacy of the vaccine, Bexsero, in protecting against infection with bacteria that causes gonorrhea.
On Wednesday, November 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019, an update to a 2013 report that details the leading threats from antibiotic resistance in the U.S. The report reveals that drug-resistant gonorrhea remains an “urgent” a threat and another sexually transmitted infection, Mycoplasma […]
Today, NACCHO released a commentary in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) new report, Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019. The report shows that antibiotic-resistant bacteria and fungi cause more than 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths in the United States each year. That means, on average, someone in the […]
On October 8, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Surveillance Report, 2018. Devastatingly, rates of reportable STDs, syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea, surged for the fifth year in a row.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health has announced awards to establish four Cooperative Research Centers (CRCs) focused on developing vaccines to prevent sexually transmitted infections. The grants, totaling $41.6 million over five years, will support collaborative, multidisciplinary research on the bacteria that cause syphilis, gonorrhea...
NACCHO is launching a community of practice (CoP) that focuses on STI express services, also known as fast-tracking, which refer to triage-based STI testing without a full clinical examination. About Express Services To address rising STI rates and related health care costs, some U.S. and international STI clinics have introduced STI express services, and many […]
As has been repeated throughout STD Awareness Month, the rates of the three reportable STDs (syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia) are on the rise. And that includes rates of congenital syphilis—spread from a pregnant person to their fetus—which have more than doubled in the last four years to 918 reported cases in the most recent data […]
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