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Held on August 31st every year, International Overdose Awareness Day is a global event to raise awareness of overdose and lower stigma...
Aug 30, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
This blog post from the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School reviews recent research from five states on health in all policies...
Aug 29, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Luz Caicedo, MPH, CPH, CIC and Danielle Walden, MPH, Florida Department of Health in Orange County In 2018, the Florida Department...
Aug 29, 2018 | Guest Author
As part of the official conference press briefing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National STD...
Aug 28, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
On Thursday August 23rd, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated recommendations for the coming...
Aug 27, 2018 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of the 2017 National Immunization Survey-Teen, which showed the...
Aug 23, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Recently, in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, authors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), the Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC), and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) have...
Through the Southern HIV Impact Fund, AIDS United will award urgent action grants of up to $25,000 to organizations that challenge and...
Held on August 31st every year, International Overdose Awareness Day is a global event to raise awareness of overdose and lower stigma around drug-related deaths. Events and activities around the world stimulate conversations about prevention and policy and remind participants that overdose death is preventable. The domestic opioid epidemic continues to expand, with national provisional […]
This blog post from the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School reviews recent research from five states on health in all policies (HiAP) and health equity programs, looking at how HiAP efforts are developed, structured, and implemented, as well as the intersection of those efforts with public health law. Read the blog post here. The […]
By Luz Caicedo, MPH, CPH, CIC and Danielle Walden, MPH, Florida Department of Health in Orange County In 2018, the Florida Department of Health (Department), Health Care-Associated Infections (HAI) Infection Prevention Program, in collaboration with the Florida Department of Health in Orange County (DOH-Orange), established the HAI Certification in Infection Prevention and Control (CIC) Study...
As part of the official conference press briefing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National STD Prevention Conference, CDC presented preliminary data showing five-year trends in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) that included preliminary data for 2017. The analysis found that the nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis reported to...
On Thursday August 23rd, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated recommendations for the coming 2018-2019 influenza season. These recommendations were featured in a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), “Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.” Updated information for the...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of the 2017 National Immunization Survey-Teen, which showed the number of adolescents who are up to date on HPV vaccination – meaning they started and completed the HPV vaccine series – increased five percentage points from 2016 to 2017. In 2017, roughly half (49 percent) […]
Recently, in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, authors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that antibiotics are the leading cause of emergency department (ED) visits for adverse drug events in children. Antibiotics save lives and are critical tools for treating infections, like those that can lead to sepsis, but […]
The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), the Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC), and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) have released “Punishment is Not a Public Health Strategy: The Criminalization of Viral Hepatitis in the United States” – a fact sheet on viral hepatitis criminalization laws throughout the country. More than a dozen U.S. […]
Through the Southern HIV Impact Fund, AIDS United will award urgent action grants of up to $25,000 to organizations that challenge and strengthen the socio-political landscape of the U.S. South. The Southern HIV Impact Fund focuses on the needs of individuals and communities affected by HIV in three primary areas: prevention; care and support; and […]
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