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April 10 is National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day
April 10 is National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD), the first national awareness day specifically focusing on the impact...
Apr 07, 2016 | Alyson Jordan
NACCHO Recognizes STD Awareness Month with Blog Series
April is STD Awareness Month, an opportunity to highlight the importance of STD prevention, testing, and treatment. The theme for 2016...
Apr 01, 2016 | LaNisha Childs
World TB Day: Unite to End TB
World TB Day is celebrated each March 24, commemorating the anniversary of the day in 1882 when Robert Koch announced the discovery of...
Mar 24, 2016 | Christina Baum
HIV Prevention Modeling Study Shows As Many as 185,000 New HIV Infections Could be...
Reaching the National HIV/AIDS Strategy targets for HIV testing and treatment and expanding the use of daily Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis...
Feb 29, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas
Disease Intervention Specialist Training: An Evolving Part of the Public Health...
By Julie Hartley, Disease Intervention Specialist, Monroe County (IN) Health Department Disease intervention specialists (DIS) are an...
Feb 17, 2016 | Guest Author
New Lyme Disease-Causing Bacteria Species Discovered
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic and health officials from Minnesota, Wisconsin,...
Feb 16, 2016 | Katie Regan
Technical Consultation on the Elimination of Perinatal Hepatitis B in the U.S.: What...
By Cynthia English, RN BSN, Communicable Disease Specialist, Saint Louis County (MO) Department of Public Health Hepatitis B infection...
Feb 09, 2016 | Guest Author
MMWR Highlights Increases in Acute Hepatitis B Virus Infections in Three States
A Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published in January 2016 describes an emerging hepatitis B epidemic in Kentucky,...
Feb 03, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas
April 10 is National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness DayApril 10 is National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD), the first national awareness day specifically focusing on the impact of HIV on youth. HIV is a potential issue for people of any age, but many young people do not see themselves at risk and do not know how to protect themselves from infection. In […] Apr 07, 2016 | Alyson Jordan |
NACCHO Recognizes STD Awareness Month with Blog SeriesApril is STD Awareness Month, an opportunity to highlight the importance of STD prevention, testing, and treatment. The theme for 2016 is Talk. Test. Treat. For health departments, healthcare providers, and community-based organizations, this means talking openly to clients and patients about sexual health and STDs, ensuring that everyone who should be tested is, and […] Apr 01, 2016 | LaNisha Childs |
World TB Day: Unite to End TBWorld TB Day is celebrated each March 24, commemorating the anniversary of the day in 1882 when Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB). The day serves to build public awareness that though much has changed since Koch’s time, the fight against tuberculosis still rages on. This year’s […] Mar 24, 2016 | Christina Baum |
HIV Prevention Modeling Study Shows As Many as 185,000 New HIV Infections Could be Prevented in the United StatesReaching the National HIV/AIDS Strategy targets for HIV testing and treatment and expanding the use of daily Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) could prevent an estimated 185,000 new HIV infections in the United States by 2020 – a 70% reduction in new infections. CDC presented this HIV prevention modeling study, using a forecasting model to predict the impact of these […] Feb 29, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Disease Intervention Specialist Training: An Evolving Part of the Public Health WorkforceBy Julie Hartley, Disease Intervention Specialist, Monroe County (IN) Health Department Disease intervention specialists (DIS) are an integral part of the public health workforce. Originally established in the field of STD prevention, DIS have increasingly been utilized in other program areas such as tuberculosis, hepatitis, and HIV linkage and re-engagement in care. During times of public... Feb 17, 2016 | Guest Author |
New Lyme Disease-Causing Bacteria Species DiscoveredThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic and health officials from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota, have reported a new species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease in humans. The new species, Borrelia mayonii, has been identified in blacklegged ticks in at least two counties in northwestern Wisconsin, though […] Feb 16, 2016 | Katie Regan |
Technical Consultation on the Elimination of Perinatal Hepatitis B in the U.S.: What Local Health Departments Can DoBy Cynthia English, RN BSN, Communicable Disease Specialist, Saint Louis County (MO) Department of Public Health Hepatitis B infection in a pregnant woman poses a serious risk to her infant at birth. Without post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), approximately 40% of infants born to hepatitis B-infected mothers in the United States will develop chronic hepatitis B infection, approximately one-fourth... Feb 09, 2016 | Guest Author |
MMWR Highlights Increases in Acute Hepatitis B Virus Infections in Three StatesA Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published in January 2016 describes an emerging hepatitis B epidemic in Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Since 2009, these Appalachian states have reported an increase in cases of acute HBV infection among non-Hispanic whites, persons aged 30–39 years, and injection drug users. Almost half of these new cases were […] Feb 03, 2016 | Alyssa Kitlas |
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