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As part of this year’s Unite to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics Chair’s Challenge, the National Alliance of State and...
Mar 07, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Greater Than AIDS hosts an #AskTheHIVDoc YouTube series featuring healthcare providers giving frank, no-nonsense answers to commonly...
Below is a press release from the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable. CDC Recommended HEPLISAV-B Vaccine to Prevent Hepatitis B in...
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presented at the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and...
The Prevent Cancer Foundation’s community grants program funds vital community-level projects in cancer prevention and early...
Developed with a grant from Comer Family Foundation, this guidebook provides information to individuals seeking to establish syringe...
Feb 28, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), in collaboration with Project Inform, has published the proceedings and...
Feb 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is now recommending that anyone over the age of 12 months should be vaccinated for...
Feb 27, 2018 | Amy Chang
PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) for HIV prevention is highly effective and safe. PrEP works for women. The Centers for Disease Control...
Feb 26, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
As part of this year’s Unite to End the HIV and Viral Hepatitis Epidemics Chair’s Challenge, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) released another installment in a series of success stories collected from around the nation. This installment features programs from Alabama and Indiana and highlights their health department’s efforts to […]
Greater Than AIDS hosts an #AskTheHIVDoc YouTube series featuring healthcare providers giving frank, no-nonsense answers to commonly asked questions about HIV. Topics covered include personal risk, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and other prevention tools. In recognition of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Dr. Charlene Flash, an HIV specialist and primary care doctor based in...
Below is a press release from the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable. CDC Recommended HEPLISAV-B Vaccine to Prevent Hepatitis B in Adults; FDA Granted Orphan Drug Designation to Tenofovir Exalidex (TXL) to Treat the Virus in Children SAN FRANCISCO, CA (March 5, 2018) – The National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR), a national coalition working together to […]
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presented at the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), suggests that only a small percentage of Americans who could potentially benefit from pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a daily pill for HIV prevention, have been prescribed it. In the first detailed analysis by […]
The Prevent Cancer Foundation’s community grants program funds vital community-level projects in cancer prevention and early detection across the United States. Applicants must demonstrate the potential of their programs to make a positive impact, with special consideration given to those making a difference in underserved communities. Apply today for the 2018 community grants cycle. The...
Developed with a grant from Comer Family Foundation, this guidebook provides information to individuals seeking to establish syringe services programs in rural, at-risk areas. Drawing on current research, the guidebook contains practical information to help communities take necessary steps to develop an evidence based response to growing rates of injection drug use in some areas.
The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), in collaboration with Project Inform, has published the proceedings and recommendations from a multi-sector stakeholder consultation held May 10-11, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois. The consultation was formed to discuss ethical considerations involved with public health action using HIV sequence data reported to health departments. The consultation...
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is now recommending that anyone over the age of 12 months should be vaccinated for hepatitis A after the fact if they have been exposed to the virus. The new recommendations are not considered final until they are published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Morbidity and […]
PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) for HIV prevention is highly effective and safe. PrEP works for women. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates 468,000 U.S. women could benefit from PrEP. However, fewer Black women have been prescribed PrEP or know about PrEP than white women. Forty percent of women access reproductive health care only, making family […]
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