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On December 11, 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with the United Kingdom Science and Innovation...
Dec 11, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Black AIDS Institute, with support from Gilead Sciences, has launched an Ambassador Program for Black women to build engagement...
Dec 06, 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
To coincide with National Influenza Vaccination Week, the Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) and Families Fighting Flu...
Dec 03, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
For the first time since the National HIV/AIDS Strategy in 2010, the domestic HIV community has come together to call on the U.S....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of Population Health released the 2017 Behavioral Risk...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau posted Policy Clarification Notices (PCNs) for the following:...
NACCHO, with support from CDC’s Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support (CSTLTS), is offering a new technical...
On December 11, 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with the United Kingdom Science and Innovation Network and the Wellcome Trust, released Initiatives for Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment. The corresponding reports—an Executive Summary and a technical white paper—highlight data identifying the potential for the environment (e.g., soil and...
The Black AIDS Institute, with support from Gilead Sciences, has launched an Ambassador Program for Black women to build engagement and movement around HIV and sexual health for Black women. This ambassador program will create a cohort of 20 Black cis and trans women, who are living with HIV and HIV-negative, who will receive training […]
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 […]
To coincide with National Influenza Vaccination Week, the Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) and Families Fighting Flu released resources to help promote and communicate the importance of flu vaccination. Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF): Investment in Immunization 2011-2017: Explains the areas of immunization that PPHF grants have supported; grant amounts and impact of the...
For the first time since the National HIV/AIDS Strategy in 2010, the domestic HIV community has come together to call on the U.S. government to declare an official goal of ending the domestic HIV epidemic by 2025 and urging it to enact legislative and regulatory policies and sufficient appropriations to achieve this goal. The Act […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Division of Population Health released the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data and prevalence tables. The BRFSS continues to be the largest ongoing telephone-based surveillance system in the world, with more than 450,000 interviews conducted in 2017 across all 50 states, the District of Columbia,...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau posted Policy Clarification Notices (PCNs) for the following: PCN 15-02, Clinical Quality Management (UPDATED) The additional clarifications provided in PCN 15-02, Clinical Quality Management, revise the number of performance measures a recipient must have for each funded service category based on the number of clients served...
NACCHO, with support from CDC’s Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support (CSTLTS), is offering a new technical assistance opportunity, “Strong Systems, Stronger Communities” (SSSC) TA Cohorts. SSSC will support local health departments (LHDs) in completing public health performance improvement projects through a tailored training and TA program. While no monetary...
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