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Know the Facts First Educational Campaign Launched
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD)...
Dec 16, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Latest CDC Act Against AIDS Initiative: Doing It
The CDC launched its latest communications campaign, Doing It, a new national bilingual campaign that emphasizes the importance of HIV...
Dec 11, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Findings Now Available from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program’s Special Projects of...
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau has presented findings and lessons from a four-year...
Nov 17, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
World AIDS Day 2015: The Time to Act is Now
The U.S. government theme for World AIDS Day 2015 on December 1 will be “The Time to Act Is Now,” emphasizing the need to...
Nov 12, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
NASTAD Releases White Paper on Drug User Health and ACA Opportunities
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has released a white paper titled “Modernizing Public...
Oct 26, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
HIV Care Collaborative: Spotlight on Houston
The Expanded Linkage to Care Initiative, operated by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services and supported by the Merck...
Oct 16, 2015 | Gretchen Weiss
Integrating Hepatitis Services into HIV Programs: NACCHO Shares the Local Health...
On September 10-13, the 19th Annual United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) was held in Washington, DC. USCA brings together public...
Oct 06, 2015 | Gretchen Weiss
San Francisco is Changing the Face of AIDS Treatment
Last year, San Francisco had only 302 new HIV diagnoses, the lowest recorded number. In 1992, at the epidemic’s peak, there were 2,332...
Oct 05, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Supplemental HIV Surveillance Report: HIV/AIDS Data Through December 2013
HRSA and CDC released a supplemental HIV surveillance report with HIV/AIDS data through December 2013. The annual HIV Surveillance...
Oct 05, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Know the Facts First Educational Campaign LaunchedThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), launched the Know the Facts First campaign to provide teen girls with accurate information about STDs and prevention methods so that they can make informed decisions about […] Dec 16, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Latest CDC Act Against AIDS Initiative: Doing ItThe CDC launched its latest communications campaign, Doing It, a new national bilingual campaign that emphasizes the importance of HIV testing for all people aged 18-64, at the National HIV Prevention Conference. Overall, the campaign emphasizes that HIV testing is a normal part of life—everyone is Doing It. Testing campaign advertisements feature a diverse group of participants, […] Dec 11, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Findings Now Available from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program’s Special Projects of National Significance Hep C InitiativeThe Health Resources and Services Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau has presented findings and lessons from a four-year demonstration project that supported 29 organizations implementing focused interventions designed to increase access to and completion of hepatitis C (HCV) treatment for people also living with HIV. Among the estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United... Nov 17, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
World AIDS Day 2015: The Time to Act is NowThe U.S. government theme for World AIDS Day 2015 on December 1 will be “The Time to Act Is Now,” emphasizing the need to look to the future but demonstrating the urgent need for action today. In a White House blog post, Douglas M. Brooks, Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy, writes that “There is […] Nov 12, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
NASTAD Releases White Paper on Drug User Health and ACA OpportunitiesThe National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has released a white paper titled “Modernizing Public Health to Meet the Needs of People Who Use Drugs: Affordable Care Act Opportunities.” The paper was a collaboration with the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law and assesses new financing and delivery models for […] Oct 26, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
HIV Care Collaborative: Spotlight on HoustonThe Expanded Linkage to Care Initiative, operated by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services and supported by the Merck Foundation HIV Care Collaborative for Underserved Populations in the United States (HCC), works to improve health outcomes for HIV+ individuals by using data-driven systems to identify individuals in need of care and link them to […] Oct 16, 2015 | Gretchen Weiss |
Integrating Hepatitis Services into HIV Programs: NACCHO Shares the Local Health Department Perspective at USCAOn September 10-13, the 19th Annual United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) was held in Washington, DC. USCA brings together public health workers, advocates, policy makers, and people living with HIV to share strategies and ideas for how to tackle the HIV epidemic. The conference theme, “The numbers don’t lie: It’s time to end disparities,” […] Oct 06, 2015 | Gretchen Weiss |
San Francisco is Changing the Face of AIDS TreatmentLast year, San Francisco had only 302 new HIV diagnoses, the lowest recorded number. In 1992, at the epidemic’s peak, there were 2,332 diagnoses. Eighty-two percent of residents with HIV currently are in care, and 72 percent are virally suppressed, results that are much higher than national averages. The city’s chief strength has been a willingness […] Oct 05, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Supplemental HIV Surveillance Report: HIV/AIDS Data Through December 2013HRSA and CDC released a supplemental HIV surveillance report with HIV/AIDS data through December 2013. The annual HIV Surveillance Report provides an overview on the current epidemiology of HIV disease in the United States and dependent areas. Data are analyzed by CDC and then provided by age, race, sex, transmission category, and jurisdiction. Supplemental reports […] Oct 05, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
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