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NACCHO, in coordination with the Preparedness Summit Planning Committee, invites your agency to contribute to the advancement of our...
Sep 06, 2018
As the 2018 United States Conference on AIDS gets underway, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors released an...
Sep 06, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical...
Sep 06, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Recently, at the STD Prevention Conference, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shared preliminary data indicating...
Sep 05, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Antibiotic Stewardship has launched the final components of its...
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) released two new fact sheets: Medicaid 1115 Waivers:...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a press release pertaining to the number of cases of measles...
Sep 05, 2018 | Kerry Premo
The AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Program developed the Hepatitis C Screening Flyer as a quick reference tool for...
Sep 04, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO, in coordination with the Preparedness Summit Planning Committee, invites your agency to contribute to the advancement of our national health security by submitting an abstract for the 2019 Preparedness Summit (March 26-29, 2019 in St. Louis, Mo.). Now more than ever, the public health preparedness community must come together to discover new and creative […]
As the 2018 United States Conference on AIDS gets underway, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors released an updated policy statement to reaffirm the conclusive scientific evidence that people living with HIV who are on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and are virologically suppressed do not sexually transmit HIV. With the release of this […]
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series covering the Capabilities for Public Health Agency Involvement in Land Use and Transportation Decision Making to Increase Active Transportation Opportunity from the UMass Worcester Prevention...
Recently, at the STD Prevention Conference, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shared preliminary data indicating that in the past five years, gonorrhea diagnoses have increased by 67 percent—and emerging antibiotic resistance to azithromycin is on the rise. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), with support from the Centers for […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Antibiotic Stewardship has launched the final components of its four-section web-based training course on Antibiotic Stewardship. Section 3 will cover antibiotic stewardship considerations for the management of common outpatient conditions and dentistry, while Section 4 is all about antibiotic stewardship in emergency departments,...
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) released two new fact sheets: Medicaid 1115 Waivers: Considerations for HIV and Hepatitis Programs and Medicaid 1115 Waivers: Exemptions for People Living with HIV and Hepatitis, as well as an updated version of our Medicaid Waiver Map. These resources were created as part of a […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a press release pertaining to the number of cases of measles in the U.S. According to CDC, 107 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 21 states and the District of Columbia in 2018. Comparatively, in all of 2017, 118 people from 15 […]
The AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Program developed the Hepatitis C Screening Flyer as a quick reference tool for providers on hepatitis C virus. It provides a snapshot view of the screening, testing, and treatment recommendation for people living with HIV. It was adapted from a similar resource developed by the New York Department […]
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