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NACCHO recently completed a project to increase the capacity of local health departments (LHDs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to...
Dec 26, 2018 | Samantha Ritter
On December 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named Carolyn Wester, MD, MPH as the permanent Director of the Division...
Dec 20, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau’s (HAB) Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Annual Client-Level Data...
Dec 18, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
On the final day of the 2018 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care and Treatment, HIV.gov had a conversation with Dr. Laura...
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
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an MMWR on early-season influenza activity in the United States from...
Dec 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), welcome...
The San Francisco Community Health Center has launched a new eCourse, “HIV Treatment 201,” which will use the HIV Care...
Dec 13, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Capacity Building Branch has launched content on pre-exposure prophylaxis...
NACCHO recently completed a project to increase the capacity of local health departments (LHDs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to work in partnership to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents. Primary goals of the project, which was funded by CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, included (1) increasing collaboration between public […]
On December 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named Carolyn Wester, MD, MPH as the permanent Director of the Division of Viral Hepatitis (DVH). Dr. Wester, who has been the Medical Director for HIV, STDs, and Viral Hepatitis at the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) since 2008, will begin serving on January 22, 2019. The below […]
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau’s (HAB) Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Annual Client-Level Data Report, 2017 is now available on the HAB website. This publication reflects HRSA HAB’s ongoing commitment to ensuring the availability of timely program information. Through use of this report, our stakeholders and partners can access newly available, national...
On the final day of the 2018 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care and Treatment, HIV.gov had a conversation with Dr. Laura Cheever about efforts underway to increase hepatitis C virus (HCV( testing, treatment, and cure among people with HIV/HCV coinfection in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. Dr. Cheever is HRSA’s Associate Administrator for […]
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 […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an MMWR on early-season influenza activity in the United States from September 30- December 1, 2018. Influenza activity in the United States was low during October 2018, and, although it increased slowly during November, activity remained low across most of the country. The timing of influenza […]
NACCHO, the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), welcome a new report from the National Academy of Public Administration that makes the case for taking urgent, concrete action to address skyrocketing STDs in the United States. Steps outlined in the report include designating a national […]
The San Francisco Community Health Center has launched a new eCourse, “HIV Treatment 201,” which will use the HIV Care Continuum as a framework to look at how the HIV treatment paradigm changed through the years. The course will begin on February 1, 2019. Register to participate!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Capacity Building Branch has launched content on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on the Effective Interventions website. These webpages provide information and resources to support PrEP as an HIV prevention strategy for health departments, community-based organizations, and healthcare organizations in the United States. View the new content.
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