The Kaiser Family Foundation has published an issue brief highlighting five key things to know about the intersection of the nation’s HIV and opioid epidemics. The brief includes background information along with a series of charts…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and Medscape introduced a new FREE continuing education (CE) activity that describes recommendations regarding prevention of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the…
The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) published an NFID Call to Action: Improving Healthcare Personnel Immunization Rates to address how to best optimize practices that will lead to improved immunization rates among healthcare personnel (HCP). The…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention released a supplemental HIV surveillance report on “Estimated HIV Incidence and Prevalence in the United States, 2010–2015.” The annual HIV…
The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) and the HIV Medical Association (HIVMA) released three documents highlighting and recommending policy changes to advance solutions to the infectious diseases consequences of the opioid epidemic.The national opioid…
Last year, the Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI) and the Southern AIDS Coalition (SAC) produced several fact sheets related to access to health care in the Deep South. The fact sheets highlight the impact of the Affordable Care…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) published a brochure to highlight some of the work NCEZID and their partners carried out in 2017. The…
The below information was cross-posted from a press release from the O’Neill Institute. As HIV/AIDS advocacy groups prepare to gather for AIDSWatch, the nation’s largest annual constituent-based national HIV/AIDS advocacy event, policy experts from the…
Like taking photos? Then join the American Public Health Association (APHA) American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) Photo Contest. The contest aims to showcase what public health looks like in communities across the United States,…
In a recently released report, CDC data show that in 2016, a total of 5,168 noncongenital Zika virus disease cases were reported from U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Most cases, 4,897 (95%) were…