The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
To expand use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), interventions to increase PrEP awareness, should encourage health care providers...
Sep 19, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Foundation for AIDS Research, amfAR, created a free and interactive EHE database that provides information on policy, services,...
Sep 09, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law released three new documents to support the federal Ending the HIV Epidemic...
Aug 26, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its webpage titled “Effectiveness of Prevention Strategies to...
Jul 23, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched five new tools that enable state and local health departments to easily find...
Jul 16, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on pre-exposure...
The Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI) has released a new report, HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Deep South: Trends from 2008-2016,...
Jun 25, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
HIV.gov launched the updated HIV Testing Sites & Care Locator and Locator Widget, which offer new HIV prevention and treatment...
AcademyHealth has released two new issue briefs on the role of Medicaid in increasing access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The...
Jun 12, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
To expand use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), interventions to increase PrEP awareness, should encourage health care providers to discuss PrEP, destigmatize PrEP use, and promote racial/ethnic equity in PrEP access. PrEP is a daily oral pill that reduces the risk for sexual acquisition of HIV by about 99% when taken daily as prescribed.
The Foundation for AIDS Research, amfAR, created a free and interactive EHE database that provides information on policy, services, and demographic and epidemiological indicators across EtHE jurisdictions. The Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative (EtHE) aims to reduce HIV infections in the United States by 75% in five years, and by 90% in 10 years.
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law released three new documents to support the federal Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative. The new briefs highlight critical actions to support two pillars of the EHE Initiative: scaling up pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use and using HIV cluster detection tools to respond to outbreaks more effectively. Big […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its webpage titled “Effectiveness of Prevention Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Acquiring or Transmitting HIV.” The webpage features tables that summarize the latest evidence for key HIV prevention strategies such as anti-retroviral therapy (ART), pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and condoms. These updated tables...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched five new tools that enable state and local health departments to easily find data on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) indications, behavior change impact, disease epidemiology, and policy and cost implications by jurisdiction. The tools include: The PrEP Populations web-based tool estimates the number of individuals indicated for PrEP...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on pre-exposure prophylaxis awareness and use among men who have sex with men (MSM). Researchers examined PrEP awareness among MSM from 2014 to 2017 in 20 urban areas. During this time, PrEP awareness increased from 60% to 90%, and […]
The Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI) has released a new report, HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Deep South: Trends from 2008-2016, which characterizes HIV/STI epidemiology, federal funding for HIV prevention and care, and utilization of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the Deep South from 2008 to 2016. With the release of this report, SASI has also announced […]
HIV.gov launched the updated HIV Testing Sites & Care Locator and Locator Widget, which offer new HIV prevention and treatment resources based on updated data. The Locator can help both individuals at risk for HIV and individuals with HIV connect to the service(s) they need. The Locator is powered by data provided by the federal […]
AcademyHealth has released two new issue briefs on the role of Medicaid in increasing access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The first brief, Leveraging Medicaid Financing and Coverage Benefits to Deliver PrEP Intervention Services, presents a framework for considering applicable Medicaid program levers to increase and improve PrEP delivery as well as an overview of Medicaid […]
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