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The United States Deep South continues to experience a heavy HIV burden including outside the large urban areas (≥ 500,000...
Jan 10, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just announced the winners of the 2018 HPV Vaccine Is Cancer Prevention Champion...
Dec 17, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Antimicrobial drugs like antibiotics transformed medical care, rendering once life-threatening infections easily treatable and...
Dec 05, 2018 | Erin Laird
To coincide with National Influenza Vaccination Week (Dec. 2-8), the Big Cities Health Coalition released a blog on guarding against...
Dec 04, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, provides the opportunity to highlight our accomplishments, remember those who have...
Nov 29, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
AIDSVu recently released new state-level data and interactive maps visualizing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use in 2017. This...
Nov 28, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Local vector control programs in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas are...
Nov 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
HIV continues to be a major public health crisis in the U.S. with almost 40,000 new cases each year, compounded by the syndemics of...
Nov 19, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the 2017 HIV Surveillance Report, which presents data on numbers and...
The United States Deep South continues to experience a heavy HIV burden including outside the large urban areas (≥ 500,000 population.) A new Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI) report and six individual state reports (AL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC) break down the percentage of key populations most impacted by the epidemic who live outside the […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just announced the winners of the 2018 HPV Vaccine Is Cancer Prevention Champion Award for outstanding efforts to protect adolescents from cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). The Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI), the American Cancer Society (ACS), and CDC have partnered to create this award program […]
Antimicrobial drugs like antibiotics transformed medical care, rendering once life-threatening infections easily treatable and reducing the risk of infection associated with surgery and chemotherapy. Advances in agriculture soon followed as farmers began using antimicrobial drugs to treat and prevent infections in their flocks and herds. However, overuse of these important drugs in both human and...
To coincide with National Influenza Vaccination Week (Dec. 2-8), the Big Cities Health Coalition released a blog on guarding against viral misinformation this flu season. Written by Joseph P. Iser, MD, DrPH, MSc, Chief Health Officer of the Southern Nevada Health District, the blog: Discusses how the internet, social media platforms, and both mainstream and alternative news sites […]
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, provides the opportunity to highlight our accomplishments, remember those who have lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and refocus our efforts on what still needs to be done to end the epidemic. Local health departments are in the forefront of these efforts, working on initiatives to […]
AIDSVu recently released new state-level data and interactive maps visualizing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use in 2017. This update builds upon AIDSVu’s release earlier this year of the first-ever state-level data and maps of PrEP use since 2012. The new maps show that the number of PrEP users increased by nearly 30% from 2016 to 2017, […]
Local vector control programs in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas are invited to attend one of two Vector Control Workshops in January 2019: January 8–9: Charleston, South Carolina January 15–16: Montgomery, Alabama The workshops will increase the capacity of local vector control programs in areas affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and...
HIV continues to be a major public health crisis in the U.S. with almost 40,000 new cases each year, compounded by the syndemics of opioid use, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and tuberculosis (TB). As such, the Act Now End AIDS coalition (a national cohort of HIV service organizations, providers, and people living with […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the 2017 HIV Surveillance Report, which presents data on numbers and rates of diagnoses of HIV infection that occurred through December 31, 2017. All data were reported to CDC through June 2018. This year’s report has been expanded to include four additional tables that provide six years […]
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