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Report: Eliminating Opioid Overdoses, Deaths, and Substance Use Disorders Exceeds...

Altarum recently released a report assessing the potential societal benefit of eliminating opioid overdoses, death, and substance use...

Nov 21, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • National HIV Curriculum: New Module on Co-Occurring Conditions

    The AIDS Education & Training Center Program has released “Module 4: Co-Occurring Conditions” of the National HIV...

    Nov 15, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    • HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis, Policy, Project Public Health Ready (PPHR)

    Call for Papers: Policy Approaches to Reduce the Morbidity, Mortality, and Incidence of HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Tuberculosis

    Public Health Reports (PHR), a peer-reviewed journal of public health research and practice and the official journal of the Office of the Surgeon General and US Public Health Service, is inviting submissions for a supplement on policy approaches to reduce the morbidity, mortality, and incidence of HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB) […]

    Nov 07, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    Infectious Disease

    Get Involved: Fungal Disease Awareness Week 2018

    Fungal Disease Awareness Week is October 1-5, 2018. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its partners organize this week to highlight the importance of recognizing serious fungal diseases early enough in the course of a patient’s illness to provide life-saving treatment. Some fungal diseases go undiagnosed and cause serious infections in people in […]

    Sep 24, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    Press Release, HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis, Infectious Disease

    Updated Recommendations for Using 3HP to Treat Latent Tuberculosis

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its recommendation for the use of a short course treatment regimen called 3HP to reach even more people with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Treatment of latent TB infection is essential to controlling and eliminating TB in the United States because it substantially reduces the risk […]

    Jul 02, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    Tools & Resources, Health Equity & Social Justice, HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis, Social Determinants of Health

    New HIV and Social Determinants of Health Indicators for AtlasPlus

    The National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention’s (NCHHSTP) AtlasPlus has added 11 new indicators that increase access to information on HIV and, for the first time, social determinants of health. AtlasPlus gives you quick access to more than 15 years of CDC’s surveillance data on HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), […]

    Jun 18, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis, Infectious Disease, Tuberculosis

    Year Two Report: National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

    The United States Agency for International Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes for Health have released the Year Two Report on the implementation of the National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Read the report now.

    May 21, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis, Infectious Disease

    Report: Molecular Epidemiology and the Transformation of HIV Prevention

    Below is an excerpt from a new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. For many infectious diseases, for example foodborne infections, tuberculosis, and Ebola virus, identifying and controlling outbreaks is a routine component of the public health response. Although this approach has not been a traditional focus of prevention efforts for HIV, […]

    Apr 16, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    Infectious Disease, Tuberculosis

    World TB Day 2018: Leading the Charge at the Local Level  

    Tuberculosis (TB) persists as a problem in the United States with 9,272 cases detected in 2016, according to CDC. To maintain awareness of this continued threat and honor Dr. Robert Koch’s discovery of the bacteria that causes TB, March 24 is recognized as World TB Day. This year’s theme, “Wanted: Leaders for a TB-Free World. […]

    Mar 23, 2018 | Erin Laird

    Report: Eliminating Opioid Overdoses, Deaths, and Substance Use Disorders Exceeds $95 Billion per Year

    Altarum recently released a report assessing the potential societal benefit of eliminating opioid overdoses, death, and substance use disorders, and found that the benefit would have exceeded $95 billion dollars in 2016. Part of that benefit comes from a $9.2 billion reduction in indirect healthcare costs, which includes the costs associated with the increased risk and treatment […]

    Nov 21, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    National HIV Curriculum: New Module on Co-Occurring Conditions

    The AIDS Education & Training Center Program has released “Module 4: Co-Occurring Conditions” of the National HIV Curriculum. AETC, in partnership with the University of Washington, produced the National HIV Curriculum with support from the Health Resources and Service Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau The module provides evidence-based recommendations for the evaluation and...

    Nov 15, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

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