The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a new webpage dedicated to providing useful and timely information...
Apr 15, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Local health departments (LHDs) are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. LHD HIV, STI, and viral hepatitis (HSH) programs are...
Apr 10, 2020 | Kat Kelley
NASTAD released a resource highlighting important considerations and promising strategies for health departments to support SSPs...
Apr 08, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Higher Ground Harm Reduction, Reynolds Health Strategies, Harm Reduction Coalition, and Vital Strategies released two new fact sheets...
Mar 11, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Every year on December 1, World AIDS Day is an opportunity to recognize global efforts to prevent new HIV infections, increase HIV...
Nov 27, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law‘s new issue brief, Community Experience Offers Lessons for Expanding...
Sep 09, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health is hosting a three-part series on...
Aug 20, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled Injection...
Aug 02, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Harm Reduction Journal recently published “Understanding the public health consequences of suspending a rural syringe services...
May 24, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a new webpage dedicated to providing useful and timely information about syringe services programs (SSPs), in collaboration with HIV.gov. The webpage includes a three-part webinar series that highlights resources, policies, and technical assistance for developing and expanding SSPs in diverse settings and communities across the...
Local health departments (LHDs) are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. LHD HIV, STI, and viral hepatitis (HSH) programs are being called upon to contribute their clinical, epidemiological, disease investigation, and outreach and education expertise to COVID-19 response efforts. To protect their clients and communities, LHD HSH programs are adapting to this new reality, […]
NASTAD released a resource highlighting important considerations and promising strategies for health departments to support SSPs during the COVID-19 response. The resource consolidates recommendations and resources for harm reduction recognizing the additional social and economic burdens faced by people who use drugs which are heightened during the global COVID-19 pandemic. View the document.
Higher Ground Harm Reduction, Reynolds Health Strategies, Harm Reduction Coalition, and Vital Strategies released two new fact sheets on harm reduction during the COVID-19 outbreak. The first fact sheet, Syringe Services and Harm Reduction Provider Operations During the COVID-19 Outbreak, is for syringe service and harm reduction providers and includes an overview of COVID-19 and […]
Every year on December 1, World AIDS Day is an opportunity to recognize global efforts to prevent new HIV infections, increase HIV awareness and knowledge, remember those who have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS, and support those who are currently living with HIV. This year’s theme, “Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Community by Community,” is an […]
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law‘s new issue brief, Community Experience Offers Lessons for Expanding Access to Syringe Services Programs, provides communities and policymakers with information they can use to build needed support for Syringe Service Programs (SSPs) to reduce HCV and HIV incidence.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health is hosting a three-part series on the role of syringe services programs (SSPs) in public health. The first webinar in the series was held on July 30. Information about the webinar recording is available below, as well as the […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled Injection Practices and Sexual Behaviors Among Persons with Diagnosed HIV Infection Who Inject Drugs in the United States, 2015–2017. Approximately 10% of HIV-positive people who inject drugs (PWID) engaged in distributive injection equipment sharing; nonsterile syringe...
The Harm Reduction Journal recently published “Understanding the public health consequences of suspending a rural syringe services program: a qualitative study of the experiences of people who inject drugs,” which examines the impact of closing a syringe service program (SSP) in Charleston, West Virginia on the health of people who inject drugs (PWID). In late […]
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