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CDC Releases the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention Annual Report
CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) released their 2014 Annual Report highlighting the division’s programmatic...
Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Lambda Legal Launches “Know Your Rights” Hub for People Living with HIV
Lambda Legal has launched “Know Your Rights: HIV” which provides information for people living with HIV people on an array of issues...
Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Inter-jurisdictional Public Health Department HIV and STD Data Sharing Fact Sheet
The Office of AIDS at the California Department of Public Health developed a fact sheet on inter-jurisdictional HIV and STD data...
Oct 01, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Tackling the HIV Crisis: Implementing New Ways to Find and Connect Patients to the...
By Julia Hidalgo, ScD, MSW, MPH, National Program Office Director, Research Professor, George Washington University, Merck Foundation...
Sep 18, 2015 | Guest Author
CDC Expert Commentary on HIV/HCV Outbreak in Indiana
The recent outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C virus in a small community in rural Indiana serves as a cautionary tale to other regions of...
Sep 17, 2015 | Firdaus Arastu
Study on Partner Services in STD Prevention Programs
A 2015 study published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases conducted a review of current literature on partner services...
Sep 15, 2015 | Firdaus Arastu
NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and...
NACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources,...
Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
Large Study of PrEP Use in Clinical Practice Shows No New HIV Infections
In one of the first and largest published evaluations of the use of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection in a...
Sep 03, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Act Against AIDS Launches First Disease-Specific CDC Instagram Account
CDC recently launched its Act Against AIDS (AAA) Instagram account. Started in 2009, AAA focuses on raising awareness of HIV among all...
Sep 01, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
CDC Releases the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention Annual ReportCDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) released their 2014 Annual Report highlighting the division’s programmatic activities in 2014. This report discusses progress made towards DHAP’s mission of closing the gaps in HIV prevention, diagnosis, care, and awareness in the United States and celebrated successes such as supporting the delivery of pre-exposure prophylaxis... Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Lambda Legal Launches “Know Your Rights” Hub for People Living with HIVLambda Legal has launched “Know Your Rights: HIV” which provides information for people living with HIV people on an array of issues including housing; HIV testing; PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis); access to health care; HIV discrimination in the workplace; HIV discrimination outside of work; privacy and confidentiality; disclosing your HIV status; HIV criminalization; adoption, foster care,... Oct 02, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Inter-jurisdictional Public Health Department HIV and STD Data Sharing Fact SheetThe Office of AIDS at the California Department of Public Health developed a fact sheet on inter-jurisdictional HIV and STD data sharing among public health departments. This fact sheet outlines state regulations around the sharing of HIV and STD data and answers frequently asked questions. View the fact sheet here. Oct 01, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Tackling the HIV Crisis: Implementing New Ways to Find and Connect Patients to the Health Care SystemBy Julia Hidalgo, ScD, MSW, MPH, National Program Office Director, Research Professor, George Washington University, Merck Foundation HIV Care Collaborative State and local health departments (LHDs) face daunting challenges to improving the quality of care for low income, uninsured populations living with communicable and chronic diseases. Despite these challenges, many LHDs are piloting... Sep 18, 2015 | Guest Author |
CDC Expert Commentary on HIV/HCV Outbreak in IndianaThe recent outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C virus in a small community in rural Indiana serves as a cautionary tale to other regions of the United States. Jonathan Mermin, Director of CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, discusses in this video what doctors and public health professionals can do to prevent […] Sep 17, 2015 | Firdaus Arastu |
Study on Partner Services in STD Prevention ProgramsA 2015 study published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases conducted a review of current literature on partner services programs with the goal of informing STD prevention programs. Partner service programs have been a mainstay of public health STD prevention for decades. The study found that value is maximized by balancing a portfolio of patient and […] Sep 15, 2015 | Firdaus Arastu |
NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and Promising PracticesNACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources, administrative practices, or tools that demonstrate exemplary and replicable qualities in response to a local public health need. A model practice meets the following criteria: local health department role, collaboration, innovation, responsiveness, and evaluation of both the... Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
Large Study of PrEP Use in Clinical Practice Shows No New HIV InfectionsIn one of the first and largest published evaluations of the use of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection in a clinical practice setting, researchers at Kaiser Permanente found no new HIV infections among patients during more than 2.5 years of observation. The study was the first done outside of clinical trials and demonstration […] Sep 03, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Act Against AIDS Launches First Disease-Specific CDC Instagram AccountCDC recently launched its Act Against AIDS (AAA) Instagram account. Started in 2009, AAA focuses on raising awareness of HIV among all Americans and reducing the risk of infection among the hardest-hit populations. The AAA account is the second Instagram account at CDC and is the only disease-specific account in the agency. The AAA Instagram account […] Sep 01, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
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