250+ Sites Participate in National PrEP Listening Session

Community representatives from around the country recently joined federal leaders from the White House and the Department of Health...

Jun 29, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • National HIV Testing Day: Is Your Local Health Department Engaged?

    June 27 is National HIV Testing Day. Please take to the comments to share how your local health department is engaging communities and...

    Jun 24, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • AIDSVu Launches Interactive Maps to Visualize Impact of HIV in the US

    AIDSVu recently announced its annual launch of new, interactive online maps visualizing the impact of HIV in the U.S., and...

    Jun 24, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • Toolkit on Gender-Response Approach to HIV Prevention

    The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) has developed the HIV Prevention Toolkit: A Gender-Responsive Approach as a resource designed...

    Jun 24, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • CMS, CDC, and HRSA Launch HIV Health Improvement Affinity Group

    The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Health Resources...

    Jun 23, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • Call for Late Breaker Abstracts: 2016 STD Prevention Conference

    The Scientific Program Committee for the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention is still accepting late breaker abstracts for oral or...

    Jun 21, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • Learn More about Infectious Disease & Informatics at 2016 NACCHO Annual

    The 2016 NACCHO Annual Conference will feature a variety of sharing sessions highlighting key focus areas of NACCHO’s Infectious...

    Jun 20, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • CDC Releases HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report on Adolescents and Young Adults

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released a new HIV surveillance supplemental report, Diagnoses of HIV...

    Jun 20, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • New Webinar Series Seeks to Improve Delivery of DIS Services to Gay Men

    The National Alliance Of State & Territorial Aids Directors (NASTAD) and the National Coalition of STD Directors’ Gay...

    Jun 17, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

  • 250+ Sites Participate in National PrEP Listening Session

    Community representatives from around the country recently joined federal leaders from the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services to discuss improving access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and strengthening PrEP delivery systems in the United States. More than 250 sites participated in the national listening session that yielded many thoughtful suggestions from a...

    Jun 29, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    National HIV Testing Day: Is Your Local Health Department Engaged?

    June 27 is National HIV Testing Day. Please take to the comments to share how your local health department is engaging communities and individuals to raise awareness, promote testing, and prevent HIV. Whether you got involved on social media or hosted a community testing event, we want to know!

    Jun 24, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    AIDSVu Launches Interactive Maps to Visualize Impact of HIV in the US

    AIDSVu recently announced its annual launch of new, interactive online maps visualizing the impact of HIV in the U.S., and highlighting continued disparities – both geographically and among different groups, particularly among youth and African Americans. Using the most recent publicly available data, AIDSVu’s new maps illustrate changes in the HIV epidemic, including: Southern States...

    Jun 24, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    Toolkit on Gender-Response Approach to HIV Prevention

    The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) has developed the HIV Prevention Toolkit: A Gender-Responsive Approach as a resource designed for health departments, clinical staff, academics, program planners, managers, and community providers who are involved in HIV prevention programs for women and adolescent girls. The Toolkit is composed of six sections: sections 1 through 4 provide background on...

    Jun 24, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    CMS, CDC, and HRSA Launch HIV Health Improvement Affinity Group

    The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently launched a new joint initiative: the HIV Health Improvement Affinity Group. The HIV Health Improvement Affinity Group will bring together state public health and Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)...

    Jun 23, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    Call for Late Breaker Abstracts: 2016 STD Prevention Conference

    The Scientific Program Committee for the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention is still accepting late breaker abstracts for oral or poster presentations at the 2016 STD Prevention Conference. Late breaker abstracts must reflect work that could not be completed until after April 25, 2016 for reasons such as the time that the data became available for […]

    Jun 21, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    Learn More about Infectious Disease & Informatics at 2016 NACCHO Annual

    The 2016 NACCHO Annual Conference will feature a variety of sharing sessions highlighting key focus areas of NACCHO’s Infectious Disease and Informatics (IDI) portfolio, including: HIV, STI & Hepatitis, Immunization, Emerging Infections and Outbreak Response, and Informatics. For those registrants, or potential registrants, with a special interest in these topics, the IDI Team has...

    Jun 20, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    CDC Releases HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report on Adolescents and Young Adults

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released a new HIV surveillance supplemental report, Diagnoses of HIV Infection among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2010-2014. Published on the heels of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey results, the report complements the 2014 HIV Surveillance Report and presents additional data […]

    Jun 20, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

    New Webinar Series Seeks to Improve Delivery of DIS Services to Gay Men

    The National Alliance Of State & Territorial Aids Directors (NASTAD) and the National Coalition of STD Directors’ Gay Men’s Health Equity Workgroup is launching a webinar series this summer. The series is geared at increasing the knowledge and skills of disease intervention specialists (DIS) and partner service providers. Subsequent webinars will build upon the knowledge and...

    Jun 17, 2016 | Kim Rodgers

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