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As scientific knowledge surrounding the link between HIV viral suppression and transmission risk evolves, messaging to patients must...
Feb 19, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Fighting the opioid crisis and other substance use disorders is a national priority at the highest levels of the Administration and in...
Feb 15, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO is pleased to release Best Practices for Rapid Syphilis Testing in Outreach and Non-Clinical Settings. This report is based on...
Feb 14, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Today, February 14, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a new national analysis in Morbidity and...
Feb 14, 2019 | Samantha Ritter
The Scholarship of Public Health is a blog series from the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice that addresses topics...
Feb 12, 2019 | NacchoVoice
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Feb 12, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The opioid overdose epidemic in America continues to evolve and become more complex. States, territories, and localities need access...
Feb 11, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Both the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) and the National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan (NVHAP) expire in 2020. The Department of...
NACCHO and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), in collaboration with the Office of the Assistant...
Feb 07, 2019 | Shannon Davis
As scientific knowledge surrounding the link between HIV viral suppression and transmission risk evolves, messaging to patients must be updated accordingly. Presenting the results of the multisite, observational PARTNER2 study at the 22nd International AIDS Conference, Alison Rodger reported that no phylogenetically linked infections occurred following more than 76,000 condomless sex acts between...
Fighting the opioid crisis and other substance use disorders is a national priority at the highest levels of the Administration and in communities across the country. The Federal Government has mobilized to take action to address these threats. As part of the ongoing and evolving national dialogue about these issues, the Office of the Assistant […]
NACCHO is pleased to release Best Practices for Rapid Syphilis Testing in Outreach and Non-Clinical Settings. This report is based on lessons learned from an evaluation of rapid syphilis testing (RST) demonstration projects in four local health departments: Crater Health District (Virginia), Pima County Health Department (Arizona), Salt Lake County Health Department (Utah), and San […]
Today, February 14, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a new national analysis in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) finding that drug use more than doubled among heterosexuals with syphilis from 2013-2017. Additionally, there is a supplement to the STD surveillance report addressing this data. The MMWR article analyzed self-reported […]
The Scholarship of Public Health is a blog series from the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice that addresses topics relevant to scientific publishing, dissemination of evidence and best practices, and the education of current and future professionals. As soon as I entered academia, one of the most common questions I received from students was some […]
DISCOUNTED Strategic Planning Training for Healthcare and Public Health Organizations & Their Partners REGISTER HERE Are you seeking ways to work across partners to address a specific health issue? Looking to understand what programs other healthcare and public health partners are providing? The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), in partnership with […]
The opioid overdose epidemic in America continues to evolve and become more complex. States, territories, and localities need access to complete and timely data on nonfatal and fatal drug overdoses to understand the scope and direction of the evolving overdose epidemic. Given the need for an interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and cohesive public health approach, the Centers […]
Both the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) and the National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan (NVHAP) expire in 2020. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP), in collaboration with federal partners, is leading development of the next iterations of these two separate and distinct national strategies. To help […]
NACCHO and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), in collaboration with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) and the Administration for Community Living, are pleased to announce the launch of the Capacity-Building Toolkit for Including Aging and Disability Networks in Emergency Planning (‘Capacity-Building Toolkit’).
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