The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health has launched a newly developed Excel...
May 20, 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
Historic rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) indicate that something about our response isn’t working. In fact, maybe even...
Apr 23, 2019 | Samantha Ritter
In the United States, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise, reaching record levels in 2017. Young people aged 15-24...
Apr 10, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Advocates for Youth is accepting applications to join its cohort of youth activists for the 2019-2020 school year. Every year, the...
Apr 04, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) has released a new toolkit, Priority Resource Dissemination Toolkit, which highlights...
Apr 03, 2019 | Kat Kelley
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new fact sheet highlighting the impact of their adolescent and...
Mar 28, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) recently issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement for a Hepatitis B Demonstration Grant...
Mar 11, 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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health has launched a newly developed Excel tool, teen-SPARC, which is designed to help public health jurisdictions and other entities explore the potential short-term impact of behavior change on reducing sexually transmitted infections among adolescents. teen-SPARC integrates data from the Youth Risk […]
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 […]
Historic rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) indicate that something about our response isn’t working. In fact, maybe even many things aren’t working. One thing is certain — not all clinical encounters are patient-centered. There are several elements that make up patient-centered care, including respect for patients’ preferences, encouraging patients’ involvement in their healthcare,...
In the United States, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise, reaching record levels in 2017. Young people aged 15-24 account for half of new STIs each year, due in part to barriers they face in accessing sexual health services. Many young people are reluctant to seek sexual health services due to stigma or […]
Advocates for Youth is accepting applications to join its cohort of youth activists for the 2019-2020 school year. Every year, the organization chooses 120 youth activists, aged 14-24, to be in a year-long fellowship and provides training, support and financial resources to advocate for reproductive and sexual health in their local communities. There are two programs available: Engaging […]
The National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) has released a new toolkit, Priority Resource Dissemination Toolkit, which highlights useful resources for the implementation of school-based HIV and STI prevention interventions. The toolkit was developed collaboratively with NACCHO, Advocates for Youth (Advocates), and the School-Based Health Alliance (the Alliance) as part of Expanding...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new fact sheet highlighting the impact of their adolescent and school health program, titled CDC’s Adolescent and School Health Program: Protecting our Nation’s Youth from HIV, STDs and Pregnancy. The fact sheet details where CDC funding for youth HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention goes, […]
The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) recently issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement for a Hepatitis B Demonstration Grant Program (Hepatitis B Program). Through this announcement, OMH seeks to develop hepatitis B model programs that will end transmission of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and reduce morbidity and mortality attributable to ongoing HBV infection. This OMH program […]
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...
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