The Big Cities Health Coalition published a new blog, Innovating to Reduce Harm in Las Vegas, that highlights the Southern Nevada Health District’s efforts to increase access to clean syringes through vending machines. The article…
The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a new report, An Update on Insurance Coverage Among People with HIV in the United States, which provides an overview of insurance coverage among people living with HIV. The…
The National Institutes of Health has launched the Long-Acting Therapy to Improve Treatment Success in Daily Life (LATITUDE) study, which compares monthly injectable antiretroviral therapy to daily oral drugs in people unable to adhere to…
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health has announced awards to establish four Cooperative Research Centers (CRCs) focused on developing vaccines to prevent sexually transmitted infections. The grants,…
On May 13, 2019, the National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors hosted a webinar, Advances in HIV and HCV Testing to Strengthen Testing and Linkage Programs, which highlighted health department strategies to improve…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health has launched a newly developed Excel tool, teen-SPARC, which is designed to help public health jurisdictions and other entities explore the…
NACCHO is featuring a new resource, the Local Opioid Prevention and Response: A Primer for Local Health Departments, which serves to inform local health departments (LHDs) about the domestic opioid epidemic and share success stories…
Prevention and care divisions within health departments sometimes function in silos, contributing to reporting burdens and duplicative efforts among staff. Many health departments are moving toward a more integrated structure for their HIV prevention and…
Gain early insights from the Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions (DEII) initiative with four recently released Project Spotlights. These concise guides describe core components of the DEII projects and highlight the following issue areas: integrating buprenorphine…
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has announced the launch of a new Training and Technical Assistance Hub. The Hub is an easy way to find technical assistance centers associated with many of HRSA’s…