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Supporting College Students Living with HIV: Staying Healthy While in School & Beyond
Students living with HIV might have many concerns about embarking on college life. Will they be treated differently? Will they be...
Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
FREE Continuing Education: HIV Testing and Diagnosis Delays
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and Medscape...
Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
NASTAD Call to Action: Supervised Injection Facilities
In response to increasing incidence of hepatitis, HIV, and overdose death related to opioid and other drug use in America, the...
Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Webinar Recording: Strategies to Combat Opioid Use in Rural Communities
The Rural Health Research Gateway recently hosted a webinar to share a wide range of strategies that rural communities can use to...
Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Submit an Abstract for Healthy Aging Summit
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and American College of Preventative Medicine are offering an opportunity to...
Jan 30, 2018
In-Person Workshop and Live Webcast: Strategies for Promoting the Safe Use and...
The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy is hosting a public workshop titled, “Strategies for Promoting the Safe Use and...
Jan 29, 2018 | Katie Dwyer
Prevent to Protect: National Birth Defects Prevention Month
By Katelynd Todd, NACCHO Health & Disability Fellow January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month in the United States. A...
Jan 29, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Register Now! 2018 NACCHO Annual Conference
Registration is now open for the 2018 NACCHO Annual Conference, to be held July 10–12 in New Orleans, LA. The theme for this...
Jan 29, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Supporting College Students Living with HIV: Staying Healthy While in School & BeyondStudents living with HIV might have many concerns about embarking on college life. Will they be treated differently? Will they be stigmatized or discriminated against? Aspiring students will be happy to learn that they shouldn’t be treated any differently than anyone else on their college campus. Modern medical treatments mean college students with HIV can […] Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers |
FREE Continuing Education: HIV Testing and Diagnosis DelaysThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and Medscape introduced a new FREE continuing education (CE) activity that describes diagnosis delay among persons infected with HIV: Vital Signs: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing and Diagnosis Delays — United States. This activity is intended for infectious disease clinicians,... Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers |
NASTAD Call to Action: Supervised Injection FacilitiesIn response to increasing incidence of hepatitis, HIV, and overdose death related to opioid and other drug use in America, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has evaluated evidence-based interventions intended to address these intersecting epidemics, including Supervised Injection Facilities. As part of this work, NASTAD released Call to Action: Supervised... Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers |
Webinar Recording: Strategies to Combat Opioid Use in Rural CommunitiesThe Rural Health Research Gateway recently hosted a webinar to share a wide range of strategies that rural communities can use to combat the opioid problem. The webinar discusses cost-effective, evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery programs that have been successfully implemented in rural communities. It concludes by describing community organizing strategies to engage a wide... Jan 30, 2018 | Kim Rodgers |
Submit an Abstract for Healthy Aging SummitThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and American College of Preventative Medicine are offering an opportunity to participate in Healthy Aging Summit on July 16-17 in Washington, DC. The Summit will include presentations across a broad array of topics related to optimal living in the senior years, including emergency preparedness and response. The Summit sponsors […] Jan 30, 2018 |
In-Person Workshop and Live Webcast: Strategies for Promoting the Safe Use and Appropriate Prescribing of Prescription OpioidsThe Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy is hosting a public workshop titled, “Strategies for Promoting the Safe Use and Appropriate Prescribing of Prescription Opioids,” which will take place on, February 15, 2018, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm at the National Press Club, located at 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045. The current opioid […] Jan 29, 2018 | Katie Dwyer |
Prevent to Protect: National Birth Defects Prevention MonthBy Katelynd Todd, NACCHO Health & Disability Fellow January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month in the United States. A birth defect can be defined as a biochemical or physical abnormality that forms within an infant before or during birth. These defects are normally found within the first year of life. While some birth defects […] Jan 29, 2018 | Kim Rodgers |
Register Now! 2018 NACCHO Annual ConferenceRegistration is now open for the 2018 NACCHO Annual Conference, to be held July 10–12 in New Orleans, LA. The theme for this year’s conference is Unleashing the Power of Local Public Health, designed to highlight the ways in which local public health officials have and will continue to positively affect health outcomes in communities […] Jan 29, 2018 | Kim Rodgers |
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