The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
On June 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Advisory for Hepatitis A outbreaks occuring in multiple...
Jun 12, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
This newsletter was developed as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School...
Jun 05, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) recently released a paper on HIV Data Privacy and...
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists’ STD Subcommittee released Syphilis Outbreak Detection Guidance. The document was...
Jun 04, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR), a national coalition working to eliminate hepatitis B and C in the United States,...
May 31, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Fenway Institute published a report yesterday with Boston Foundation’s Boston Indicators Research Center that describes...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a new HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report: Diagnoses of HIV...
On May 30, 2018, the National Coalition for Sexual Health (NCSH) launched the Five Action Steps to Good Sexual Health. This...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released the 2017 National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) Progress Report, the...
On June 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Advisory for Hepatitis A outbreaks occuring in multiple states among persons reporting drug use and/or homelessness and their contacts. The HAN can be accessed on CDC’s website. CDC recommends that health departments review the most recent data to identify communities that are at […]
This newsletter was developed as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health’s (DASH) initiative, Expanding Partnerships and Disseminating HIV Prevention Materials to Reduce HIV and other STDs among Adolescents through National Non-Governmental Organizations (PS16-1603). The initiative was created to increase education of key stakeholders...
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) recently released a paper on HIV Data Privacy and Confidentiality: Legal & Ethical Considerations for Health Department Data Sharing. The paper provides a summary of findings from a ten-state legal and regulatory research project NASTAD conducted, focusing on the legal authorities and limitations for HIV data […]
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists’ STD Subcommittee released Syphilis Outbreak Detection Guidance. The document was developed to give STD programs a framework for understanding syphilis epidemiology, determining if and when an outbreak of syphilis might be occurring, and determining when additional resources and activities could be needed to prevent further transmission of...
The National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR), a national coalition working to eliminate hepatitis B and C in the United States, recently applauded the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) for updating their hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening and treatment recommendations to focus on eradicating […]
The Fenway Institute published a report yesterday with Boston Foundation’s Boston Indicators Research Center that describes demographic data on the LGBT community, pro-LGBT policies and services, and challenges that continue to face this community. Read the report and check out this story in the Boston Globe.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a new HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States and 6 Dependent Areas 2011–2016. This surveillance supplemental report complements the 2016 HIV Surveillance Report by presenting additional data on persons aged 13–24 years. In this […]
On May 30, 2018, the National Coalition for Sexual Health (NCSH) launched the Five Action Steps to Good Sexual Health. This comprehensive, innovative roadmap redefines what it means to be sexually healthy and provides practical tools to help Americans improve their sexual health. The Steps are: #1. Value who you are and decide what’s right […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released the 2017 National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) Progress Report, the sixth such report since the first NHAS was created in 2010. The report was developed by members of the NHAS Federal Interagency Workgroup, which coordinates implementation and monitoring of the Strategy across the federal government. The report found […]
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