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FREE Continuing Education: HIV Testing and Diagnosis Delays

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and Medscape...

Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

  • Infographic: 2016 HIV Surveillance Report

    In case you missed it, the annual HIV surveillance report, which provides an update on HIV diagnoses through 2015, was released at the...

    Jan 08, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

  • CDC Report: HIV Among People Who Inject Drugs

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) serves as a key component of its...

    Oct 17, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

  • Commentary: CDC’s 2016 STD Surveillance Report

    Increasing STD rates highlight the need to work together, commit to doing what we know works, and develop new tools and approaches to...

    Sep 26, 2017 | Gretchen Weiss

  • NASTAD Call to Action: Urgent Response to Nation’s Hepatitis C Epidemic

    In response to the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) release of A National Strategy for the...

    Aug 01, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

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    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

    All of Us, HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis

    STD Awareness Month 2018: Impact of Budget Cuts on HIV, STI, and Viral Hepatitis Programs

    Overview Local health departments (LHDs) play an important role in the prevention, care, and treatment of HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and viral hepatitis. We have the tools and technologies to end the HIV epidemic, eliminate hepatitis B and C, and effectively prevent and treat STIs, but we must ensure that local public health has […]

    Apr 13, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis

    CDC: Estimated HIV Incidence and Prevalence in the United States, 2010–2015

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention released a supplemental HIV surveillance report on “Estimated HIV Incidence and Prevalence in the United States, 2010–2015.” The annual HIV Surveillance Report provides an overview on the current epidemiology of HIV disease in the United States and dependent...

    Mar 26, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    HIV, STI, & Viral Hepatitis

    Report: Federal Investment in HIV Prevention

    The below information was cross-posted from a press release from the O’Neill Institute.  As HIV/AIDS advocacy groups prepare to gather for AIDSWatch, the nation’s largest annual constituent-based national HIV/AIDS advocacy event, policy experts from the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law have issued a new report outlining the impact federal […]

    Mar 22, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    FREE Continuing Education: HIV Testing and Diagnosis Delays

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and Medscape introduced a new FREE continuing education (CE) activity that describes diagnosis delay among persons infected with HIV: Vital Signs: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing and Diagnosis Delays — United States. This activity is intended for infectious disease clinicians,...

    Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    Infographic: 2016 HIV Surveillance Report

    In case you missed it, the annual HIV surveillance report, which provides an update on HIV diagnoses through 2015, was released at the end of 2017 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To make the key findings of the assessment accessible to a broader audience, CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) developed […]

    Jan 08, 2018 | Kim Rodgers

    CDC Report: HIV Among People Who Inject Drugs

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) serves as a key component of its high-impact prevention approach to reducing the spread of HIV in the United States. It provides data for monitoring behaviors among populations at risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV infection and identifying the populations for whom […]

    Oct 17, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

    Commentary: CDC’s 2016 STD Surveillance Report

    Increasing STD rates highlight the need to work together, commit to doing what we know works, and develop new tools and approaches to address persistent challenges and emerging threats. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Surveillance Report, 2016. For a third year in a row, rates […]

    Sep 26, 2017 | Gretchen Weiss

    NASTAD Call to Action: Urgent Response to Nation’s Hepatitis C Epidemic

    In response to the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) release of A National Strategy for the Elimination of Hepatitis B and C: Phase Two Report, the National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has issued a Call to Action and accompanying Blog Post for an urgent response to the […]

    Aug 01, 2017 | Kim Rodgers

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